Which global cities have you been to/not heard of?

In My Humble Opinion
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What the hell is wrong with you. Jump on the damn trolley and walk over!

Ha, I’ve never been to any of those places, and proud of it! Seriously though, I came damn close to going to Detroit to see a game in the old Tiger Stadium before it closed. I regret it to this day.

Well I should be doing my taxes, so instead I’ll type in every city. [del]Striked Out[/del] (and it was a bitch to figure out how to do that) are cities I haven’t been to, and red I’ve passed through in a train or car. I’ve been to the rest. I’ve never heard of Almaty nor Abidjan.

1999

London, New York, Paris, Tokyo

Chicago, [del]Frankfurt[/del], [del]Hong Kong[/del], Los Angeles, [del]Milan[/del], Singapore

San Francisco, Sydney, [del]Toronto[/del], Zürich

Brussels, Madrid, [del]Mexico City[/del], [del]São Paulo[/del]

[del]Moscow[/del], [del]Seoul[/del]

Amsterdam, Boston, Caracas, Dallas, [del]Düsseldorf[/del], Geneva, [del]Houston,[/del] [del]Jakarta[/del], Johannesburg, Melbourne, [del]Osaka[/del], Prague, Santiago, [del]Taipei[/del], Washington, D.C.

Bangkok, Beijing, [del]Montreal[/del], Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw

[del]Atlanta[/del], Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, [del]Manila[/del], Miami, Minneapolis, Munich, Shanghai

Athens, Auckland, Dublin, Helsinki, Luxembourg, [del]Lyon[/del], [del]Mumbai[/del],[del]New Delhi[/del], Philadelphia, [del]Rio de Janeiro[/del], [del]Tel Aviv[/del], Vienna

[del]Abu Dhabi[/del], [del]Almaty[/del], [del]Birmingham[/del], [del]Bogotá[/del], Bratislava, Brisbane, [del]Bucharest[/del], [del]Cairo[/del], [del]Cleveland[/del], [del]Cologne[/del], [del]Detroit[/del], [del]Dubai[/del], Ho Chi Minh City, [del]Kiev[/del], Lima, Lisbon, [del]Manchester[/del]. Montevideo, Oslo, [del]Riyadh[/del], [del]Rotterdam[/del], Seattle, Stuttgart, [del]The Hague[/del], Vancouver

Adelaide, [del]Antwerp[/del], [del]Aarhus[/del], Baltimore, [del]Bangalore[/del],[del]Bologna[/del], [del]Brasília[/del], [del]Calgary[/del], Cape Town, [del]Colombo[/del], Columbus, Dresden, Edinburgh, Genoa, Glasgow, Gothenburg, [del]Guangzhou[/del], Hanoi, Kansas City, Leeds, Lille, Marseille, Richmond, [del]Saint Petersburg[/del], [del]Tashkent[/del], [del]Tehran[/del], Tijuana,[del]Turin[/del], [del]Utrecht[/del], Wellington

2004

London, New York City

Los Angeles, Paris, San Francisco

Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Madrid, [del]Milan[/del], [del]Moscow[/del], [del]Toronto[/del]

[del]Hong Kong[/del], Singapore, Tokyo

Brussels, Geneva, [del]Strasbourg[/del], Washington

Berlin, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Munich, Oslo, Rome, Stockholm

Bangkok, Beijing, Vienna

[del]Manila[/del], Nairobi, [del]Ottawa[/del].

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US Cities: New York, Dallas*, Houston*, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia**, Cleveland, Columbus, Richmond, Baltimore.

Non-US: London**, Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds.

*If I include the airport.
**Have lived in these cities (or suburbs of).

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From the Greek letter/points list, I have been to:
London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Toronto, Madrid, Washington, Montreal, Barcelona, Minneapolis, Lisbon, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Glasgow.
And have heard of:
All of them (even Aarhus).

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London, Paris, NYC, LA, SF, Dallas, Washington DC, Munich, Luxemburg, Vienna, The Hague, and Tiajuana.

Never heard of Aarhus, Tashkent or Abu Dhabi

…some ignorance was fought today

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Heard of: All listed

Been to:

New York (visited maternal grandparents twice in 1966-72 when they lived there, tried out twice for Who Wants to be a Millionaire in recent years)

Chicago (attended two women’s basketball games at DePaul, various other visits)

Washington (visited an aunt who lived there, earlier spent a week during a Close Up program)

Montreal (spent several nights there before and after a college trip to Cuba)

Minneapolis (spent a night in the metro area, just rode through the city proper)

Philadelphia (visited Long Time First Time’s parents twice – they live(d)* in a suburb, but I’ve attended sporting and cultural events within the Philly limits)

Cleveland (grew up in the suburbs, and thus made myriad excursions into the municipality)

Detroit (spent a couple of nights in suburban Dearborn, passed through Detroit itself without stopping)

Baltimore (passed through on an Amtrak train)

Columbus (visited Ohio Historical Center as child, Ohio State’s Value City Arena as adult)

Richmond (changed buses there several times on college-era Greyhound excursions)

  • her father died last year, but her mother is alive and well
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London, Tangiers, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malaga, Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid, Ibiza, Toulon, Marseilles, Nice, Monte Carlo, Munich, Innsbruck, Geneva, Lausanne et al, Vaduz, Luxembourg, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Rome, Valletta, Ajaccio, Messina, Venice, Split, Dubrovnik, Athens, Istanbul, Ephesus, Beirut, Jerusalem, San Juan, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Portland x 2, Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Savannah, Nashville, Jackson, Louisville, Jacksonville x2, Key West, Columbia, Charleston SC, Wilmington x3, Raleigh, Charlotte, Richmond, Baltimore, Dover, Philadelphia, New York City, Albany x2, Buffalo, Hahtfud et al, Providence, Montpelier, Concord x2, Augusta x2, Worcester, Boston.

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I’ve been to all the U.S. and Canadian cities listed, but only to Rome outside those two countries.

I’ve heard of all the cities.