Which city is better?

[mrswdk]

Round 1: London vs Paris.

London wins! Paris sucks.

Round 2: New York vs Tokyo

Tokyo wins! Asian master race.

Round 3: Kuala Lumpur vs Toronto

Kuala Lumpur


Toronto

[Dukasaur]

Mr W.D. Reifenstahl: Nice selection of images.

Vote: Trieste.

[mrswdk]

Trieste looks provincial as all hell.

Dukasaur votes for: London!

[2dimes]

Man, I need a wife with a better income so I can travel more.

[notyou2]

I chose London, Ontario over Paris, Maine.

[nietzsche]

Man, I need a wife with a better income so I can travel more.

I think I invited you to my plan of robbing a bank and you said no. Your loss.

[riskllama]

having never visited either of those cities, i can safely say that Paris is the better of those two.

[waauw]

I've never been to London, so I guess I'm going with Paris.

[AndyDufresne]

I vote Ordos:



http://content.time.com/time/photogalle ... 92,00.html


--Andy

[subtleknifewield]

Paris

The price of living in London is absolutely ridiculous

[mrswdk]

Paris

The price of living in London is absolutely ridiculous

The only thing that's high in London is the rent, and given that you get paid more for living here for that exact reason, it's hardly an issue.

[mrswdk]

Paris is a dirty nest full of smelly people and crappy stuff. London wins! \(^0^)/

[subtleknifewield]

Paris

The price of living in London is absolutely ridiculous

The only thing that's high in London is the rent, and given that you get paid more for living here for that exact reason, it's hardly an issue.

Um...I recently got told BY SOMEONE WHO IS A BRITISH CITIZEN, that it literally cheaper to live on the continent and FLY over to the Isles every day, than live in London. Prices are overinflated on everything, not just space.

[mrswdk]

You weren't told that by someone, you read that on the internet (I know because I read the same microblog story). The man in question only commuted 4 days a week and was comparing a cheap apartment in Spain to an expensive one in London. He could easily live in London for less than he spends to live in Spain, but he has chosen not to because a) he would like to live in Spain, and b) he wouldn't be able to write attention-seeking microblog stories about his life commuting to work from a London suburb.

Speaking as someone who lives in London, rent is the only thing that is noticeably expensive, and as I already said (but which you chose to ignore) people get paid more for working in London in order to make up that difference. So it literally doesn't matter.

[waauw]

So it literally doesn't matter.

In what sense is there anything but a literal meaning to "doesn't matter"? I guess you could also interpret it as a non secretion of pus, but somehow I don't think you meant that anyway.

[notyou2]

I vote Ordos:



http://content.time.com/time/photogalle ... 92,00.html


--Andy

Send the refugees there. GoranZ, get right on that.

[WingCmdr Ginkapo]

Paris beats London in a city contest really easily. Do you actually know how big the city of london is? Its also known as the square mile. That should say it all.

MrsWDK - Have you spent any time at other places in the UK? Everything is more expensive in London not just rent.

[tzor]

I have never been to Paris.

I have been to London (twice).

I have been told that the subways there close early.

I understand that a the underground tube in London runs 24 hours.

This, of course, has NOTHING to do with whether a city is better or not.

[waauw]

I have never been to Paris.

I have been to London (twice).

I have been told that the subways there close early.

I understand that a the underground tube in London runs 24 hours.

This, of course, has NOTHING to do with whether a city is better or not.

Are you sure? When the trains stop running and the lights go dark, the raping starts.
I wouldn't put it past the french to seek you out.

[mrswdk]

Paris beats London in a city contest really easily. Do you actually know how big the city of london is? Its also known as the square mile. That should say it all.

For the benefit of OT regulars who are not very familiar with the UK - such as Ginkapo - I will just point out that the borough called 'City of London' is a tiny borough right in the center of the city.

MrsWDK - Have you spent any time at other places in the UK? Everything is more expensive in London not just rent.

Yeah, I've been all over the UK. The only places in London which cost consistently more than elsewhere are:

- places mostly frequented by tourists and out-of-towners
- places mostly frequented by people with so much money they don't care anyway
- places which are nicer than the average standard outside of London

[subtleknifewield]

You weren't told that by someone, you read that on the internet (I know because I read the same microblog story). The man in question only commuted 4 days a week and was comparing a cheap apartment in Spain to an expensive one in London. He could easily live in London for less than he spends to live in Spain, but he has chosen not to because a) he would like to live in Spain, and b) he wouldn't be able to write attention-seeking microblog stories about his life commuting to work from a London suburb.

Speaking as someone who lives in London, rent is the only thing that is noticeably expensive, and as I already said (but which you chose to ignore) people get paid more for working in London in order to make up that difference. So it literally doesn't matter.

Link to the article? Because I read no such thing. I was told by a friend of mine.

Nice to know you think you know exactly what I do with my day, though. Didn't know you were pretending to be clairvoyant too.

[WingCmdr Ginkapo]

Whats disturbing the most, is in two years it became acceptable for the Guardian to post something from the dailymail.

2013:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... eres-.html

2015:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/ ... kes-it-pay

[subtleknifewield]

Whats disturbing the most, is in two years it became acceptable for the Guardian to post something from the dailymail.

2013:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... eres-.html

2015:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/ ... kes-it-pay

Thank you for the links.

[jonesthecurl]

I was born in London and have spent a fair amount of time in Paris. I like them both, though I have to say that Parisians are on average more rude and abrupt than anyone except New Yorkers.

[subtleknifewield]

I was born in London and have spent a fair amount of time in Paris. I like them both, though I have to say that Parisians are on average more rude and abrupt than anyone except New Yorkers.

Won't argue with the fact that New Yorkers tend to be rude XD

It seems to be a cultural thing for them...in a city so crowded, you almost HAVE to be assertive to the point of rude aggressiveness to get anywhere or anything. At least that's a paraphrase of what a guy who's originally from New York told me.