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You seem pretty anti-NYC, pro-London bias, weirdly enough. But you're that Anti-American guy, I forgot. Go away.
My response to these answers is two-fold.
1) I don't consider London to have better architecture than New York. It lacks the beautiful Art-Deco, Bauhaus, Modernist skyscrapers and design touches that make New York so impressive, for it's sheer scale and intricacy.
2) Can you explain food and people? I think London is a step below NYC for availability of ethnic cuisines, number of Michelin stars, and presence of ghastly, starchy British pub food, and the people 1) aren't as diverse and 2) are much colder and more arrogant.
But that's what I've heard.
London has 2000+ years of architecture! From Roman buildings to the shard! New York a couple of hundred years only!
Definitely Sydney. Great weather, great size, beautiful place, clean, and the Aussie accent and lifestyles are hard to beat, in my opinion.
Toronto second, Toronto has a lot going for it and will definitely be a major player in the future. Could definitely imagine myself living there.
London, while having never been, so can't speak on it fully, seems like a fantastic place, but the weather puts me off.
New York, while interesting and definitely a world class city, felt like somewhat like a developing country when you leave the major areas of Manhattan (which are really quite clean and well maintained). Rats, garbage everywhere, and some sketchy people being visible pretty much wherever you go. Saw at least one fight or confrontation on the train every day I was there for more than a week. Had a lot of fun, and can see the appeal, but doesn't vibe well with me in terms of living there, particularly regarding the high living costs for what you get in return.
I'm so divided but London has the edge for me even though I LOVE NYC. I just have more history with London, but NYC a close second. Toronto seems more like Chicago in many ways and I've never been to Sydney but hopefully one day I will! After all this is over!
Definitely Sydney. Great weather, great size, beautiful place, clean, and the Aussie accent and lifestyles are hard to beat, in my opinion.
Toronto second, Toronto has a lot going for it and will definitely be a major player in the future. Could definitely imagine myself living there.
London, while having never been, so can't speak on it fully, seems like a fantastic place, but the weather puts me off.
New York, while interesting and definitely a world class city, felt like somewhat like a developing country when you leave the major areas of Manhattan (which are really quite clean and well maintained). Rats, garbage everywhere, and some sketchy people being visible pretty much wherever you go. Saw at least one fight or confrontation on the train every day I was there for more than a week. Had a lot of fun, and can see the appeal, but doesn't vibe well with me in terms of living there, particularly regarding the high living costs for what you get in return.
How can London weather put you off if you've never been? Just as a sidenote I can guarantee that you are basing your assumption on a god-awful stereotype :-).
How can London weather put you off if you've never been? Just as a sidenote I can guarantee that you are basing your assumption on a god-awful stereotype :-).
Because I grew up in Seattle, which everyone always compares London to. I'm not a fan at all of rain nor grey, gloomy skies, so that doesn't sound particularly fun. Big sunny, warm 20+ degrees fan here. You're right though, I could be completely wrong, I know the least about London of the four.
Because I grew up in Seattle, which everyone always compares London to. I'm not a fan at all of rain nor grey, gloomy skies, so that doesn't sound particularly fun. Big sunny, warm 20+ degrees fan here. You're right though, I could be completely wrong, I know the least about London of the four.
People may compare London and Seattle but I think that's a good example of the stereotyping that London gets in this regard. London is one of the driest cities in Western Europe, It gets less rain annually than Paris, New York, Istanbul and Rome (few examples), it may not be particularly hot in the Summer but winters are not cold. You don't see much sun in the winter thats sure true, its mainly because of the low sun angle but summers in SE England are actually quite 'sunny'. Don't get me wrong the weather is not as nice as the Med or California (for examples) but it most certainly isn't anything like as bad as people (for some reason) constantly try and portray. It's certainly doesn't detract from the city in any way (in fact for the 3 Summer months it's ideal). If you do ever come to London in the Summer don't make the mistake that many 'Johnny foreigners ' make and don't dress like it's the arctic or dress from head to foot in oilskins! :-).
I was just going to chime in that Toronto was getting a bit short-changed in this respect. I'd argue that for the average City-Data person, or the average person in general, the ease of building a nice comfortable life in Toronto is greater than in the other two.
Now, things change a bit if you add Sydney to the mix. It's more similar to Toronto in this respect. I don't know how I'd compare it in terms of COL but in terms of overall QOL it arguably either just squeaks by Toronto or Toronto just squeaks by it. (I'd probably give a slight edge to Sydney though.) Both cities have their advantages but they're often different in nature.
It's unfair to include Toronto in this poll. It's nowhere near London or NYC, and it will lose on every single criteria. Sydney is also even out of place in this poll.
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