LA, NY, Boston (Boston’s actually ok, it’s just that “don’t go back home” deal)
Naha (not that big, but still a city. I avoid it at all costs. Basically, if you don’t look Japanese and you don’t have a military base you can take shelter in, you don’t want to go there).
London - I can’t see what’s so special about the place. I’ve been there to stay a few times and I honestly can’t see why everything is twice the price as everywhere else.
Anywhere in the USA apart from possibly New York. Sorry guys, your country does not appeal to me.
Cairns, Perth or Canberra in Australia. Too hot, too remote and too dull.
Anywhere where the average winter temperature is below zero. So that rules out most of Scandinavia and Canada.
I can live with heat as long as there’s A/C, so pretty much anywhere else would be ok.
Hence the Retiree’s Run up the northern coast when the weather cools down south.
Anywhere on the east coast between Boston and DC, inclusive. I’m painfully closeto DC as it is…
Chicago.
Anywhere in California.
And that’s cool. 
I probably wouldn’t move back even if I could. I still like Vegas, but most of my family is here in the Midwest.
Hey!
What’s wrong with casinos filled with gold-capped teethed wearing nugget jewelry the size of a chihuahua members of society? You snob! and I totally agree with you! The Burbs, however, are a nice standardized place.
If I gots to gamble ( which I don’t) I head North to the Reservations where our Indian Bruthers can scalp the White Man and it’s legal and Tax Free! (w00t!)
I get to see all the old peoples and their oxygen tanks, smoking hand rolled cigerettes and wearing kneehighs socks with shorts tossing their pension down to the slot machine Gods and it makes me stop at the high rollin’ amount of five dollah.
Personally, I wouldn’t live in LA.
To many fires, car chases and celebrities. Oh , and the traffic sux.
I’ll take pot holes, deer hunters, The Lions and even our weather over that.
Hmm.
LA
New York
DC
Las Vegas
Tuscon (is Tuscon considered a major city??)
Miami
Detroit
I really can’t say I have a good reason for any of those choices…it’s just a feeling, I guess.
I’ve lived in L.A. almost my entire life, so I’ve learned to be content with the usual big-city aggravations, including, especially, traffic and commuting woes. I live in a good area, not far from the ocean and there are a lot of things to see and do, but you have to drive almost everywhere.
So to sum it up, I wouldn’t want to move to any place that has seen tremendous growth since WWII, since these places tend to be uber L.A.s–even more sprawled out, even more car-dependent, and even more banal in appearance. Seriously. If I ever relocate, I want to move to an older, more centralized city with good transportation.
If I could come to terms with the higher cost of living and the weather, I’d give NYC (boroughs or the city) a shot. I’m sure I could afford to live there but would have to make some lifestyle sacrifices, like living in a much smaller apartment than I now have.
LA, Las Vegas, or actually virtually anywhere in the South or Southwest. Between the weather and, frankly, cultural incompatibility, I’m already not interested. Add in the growth and the awful sprawl in that whole part of the country - no thanks. Portland, Chicago, NYC, and Boston, and maybe Washington DC, are about the only places in the U.S. that I’d really like to live in.
Sad that I live here in Michigan then.
I couldn’t live anyplace north of Washington DC (I hate cold weather and snow). Aside from that, I enjoy visiting New York, but it exhauses the living hell out of me, and I can’t imagine living there.
I couldn’t live anyplace more than 2 hours drive from the ocean. I’m a coastal kind of guy.
Des Moines. I know, it’s stretching the definition of “major”, but it’s as major as Iowa gets. “Welcome to Des Moines, please set your watches to 1961…”
When did they buy? 1981?
New York City is by far the coolest city to live in (disregarding cost…and appartment size). Tough place to raise a family though because it’s very expensive and there’s about a million things to do that’s more fun than listening to a nagging wife and kids. The other thing is that if you live an work there long enough, the rest of the country seems like uncultured simpletons by comparison.
When people say “which city would you live in?” the usually mean “from what urban center do you want to commute an hour to your indistinguishable suburb?”. Few cities that I have been to have a vibrant downtown that people actually live in.
I like NYC. I probably would like Chicago
Austin, Atlanta, and San Diego (never been) Seatle are kind of generic “hip cities”. They have a small downtown, a trendy nightclub area and a bunch of suburbs where people actually live. People there say things like “it’s like little New York City”. Guess what shithead? I live in New York City. Your city is like a little NYC like I’m an ugly Brad Pitt. That said, some of them do seem like pretty cool cities.
Don’t like Orlando, Philadelphia, or Pittsburg
Lived in Boston for a time. I would lump it with the generic hip cities except the people annoy me.
Heard mixed reviews about San Fran (homeless folks and all that). LA seems cool if you are in the movie biz, otherwise whats the point? Vegas? I would be broke in a month.
East:
Nothing below Boston on the East Coast a) Because if I’m going to live in a major urban area on the East Coast I may as well go back to my roots b) I consider the entire East Coast below Washington D.C. unliveable.
Midwest: I find myself unable to live anywhere in the Midwest. The weather is about as crappy as the East Coast and I find the cities lame. Especially Indianapolis. Chicago is okay but I’m not that impressed by it beyond the fact that it makes Boston look extremely cheap.
West Coast: I don’t really want to live in Northern California b/c it’s expensive and I want to move there for the weather. I would live in Hell A or San Diego, though. Seattle & Portland are fine by me but I have no real incentive to move there-at least if I move to Cali my parents might retire close to me.
Southwest & Texas: I wouldn’t live anywhere in Texas other than Austin. I’m still out on Phoenix, Denver & cities in New Mexico. I suspect I would like them.
mssmith you have seriously heard Boston referred to as a little New York? Are you kidding me? Boston is an overgrown college town with loads of culture and a huge scientific industry. Sure it has immigrants and all but it’s nothing close to the size or cultural boom-town that is New York (and I say this as someone who grew up 10 minutes from Cambridge). That said, Boston seems pretty damn awesome once you spend sometime in Cowpatch, Midwest.
Any part of Texas, though Dallas might be okay. Too hot and humid (and that says something coming from an Okie), and they have the worst freaking ants. Not to mention I have never met a Texas driver that could actually drive.
All of Florida. Again, too hot and humid, too many old people, and their bugs are just freakishly bizarre.
I haven’t spent enough time in the rest of the country to have any other places on my sh*t list.
Umm, that should be Boston makes Chicago look unbelievably cheap. I have learned to bite my tongue when people complain about house prices in Chicago.
New York
London
Paris
Munich
Everybody talk about pop musik!
sorry
I’m pretty much in agreement with you except for Memphis. I don’t even think of it as a city – more like a sleepy, slightly overgrown southern town, with nowhere near the congestion of, say, Atlanta. I live in Baltimore, and I may very well retire to Memphis.
Quality of city life is highly dependent on your finances: if all you can afford is a roach-infested showbox in a dangerous neighborhood, there are plenty of medium-size towns that’ll be unpleasant. OTOH, if you’ve got the money for nice digs, cabs everywhere and all the marked-up extras you want, NYC can be a great place. (A fellow West Virginian had this to say after spending a few days in Manhattan in 1990: “It’s the most beautiful place in the world, from the third floor up”).
I’m going against the rules here, but I must say Branson, Missouri. Hell, I would do everything in my power to not even visit the place.
As Bart Simpson says, “Las Vegas, if Ned Flanders ran it.”
What miserable weather? It’s 74 degrees and sunny in Houston right now.
For me, it’s NYC or Chicago or San Francisco. I just do not see myself in those cities for more than 48 hours. Not no way, not no how.