My favorite cities (so far.)

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San Francisco is a city I love. It just is. Stop trying to conjure up in your mind a list of cities you think is better because I'll save you the time and tell you right now that you are mal-informed. I would love to live here. I think I just love how easy it is to get around and not have to drive, I love driving though, which is weird, so I don't get me on that one. However, I love how much can be happening in the single place like San Francisco, I love the technology that encircles it, the street cafes, and the excitement of progress all around me. Most of all, with both of these cities, I love the ability to disconnect from it all and feel alone in a city filled with millions of people. To know you're a part of something, but that you can also choose the part you play.

On the other hand I love New York, and not because of the song, but the song is spot on. It's a great city, I've only been up there to experience it three times now, but every time I left wanting to explore and experience more. There is so much culture, so many people, so much excitement, hustle and bustle, I thrive on it. Though it's so expensive, I would love to one day live in the proverbial epicenter of US design, and though I don't know that I'm necessarily equipped for the task just yet, I've still got lots to learn and more I want to learn (and still need to find time to learn it all, but that's a whole other subject that I could go on and on about). I love learning, it's weird and I can't help myself.

If i had to choose one over the other I don't know which I would choose, I hope I never have to choose and get to experience both at some point in my life. Anyone have any connections out there that could get me a connection to these places? Talk to me.

 

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Jun 17, 2010
Ryan George said...
Two excellent choices for the reasons you mentioned! I love all the different doors in San Francisco—a coffee table book of pictures waiting to happen.

Other top cities on my top-five list: San Diego, Annapolis, and Auckland. Paris was cool in its own way, too. I very much want to visit Seattle and Vancouver. If I ever do pull that dreamed, extended writing sabbatical, I think I'd gravitate toward the Pacific Northwest (a part of the country I've never visited).

I prefer to keep cities for day/weekend trips. I enjoy Lynchburg too much to leave.

Jun 17, 2010
Colin's Sister said...
I share your love of San Francisco, I was lucky enough to live pretty close to it for awhile..and really sad to leave, I have never been to New York but I bet I would love it too. You have to come visit us in Mannheim. Maybe you could add it to your list of city love.

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