If I Could Live In Any City It Would Be . . .?
April 7th 2009 20:28
LA is Sydney's big sister on so many levels - and a place where nothing suprises.
From the glitz of Universal Studios to Disneyland in Orange County to Muscle Beach - it is a potpourie of everything you either love or hate about America.
Of course the itinery also encompassed San Francisco, San Diego, Tijuana, Las Vegas and Honolulu - each with something very special to offer.
But whether it's Stateside, Europe, the sub-Continent, South America or the Pacific - most would say there's no place like home - or is there?
Given the opportunity to share your allegiances between 'home' and a surrogate city for 6 months a year - where would you hang your hat?
London? Paris? New York? Tokyo? Dhaka?
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Comment by Lady Henrietta Muddling
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Nowhere commercial like LA. Although I'd like to see silicon valley where they make all the breast implants.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Best you check out Click Here for the time being. As for silcon valley - hmmmm . . . .
Comment by Lady Henrietta Muddling
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That link? That book? It sounds fascinating.
Comment by Janet Collins
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Comment by Cibbuano
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I've got an eye for Tokyo - just to visit, mind - but I'm excited to go to a city that produces so much technology and so much sheer weirdness...
Comment by Morgan Bell
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Comment by alt_ed
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Comment by Postmodern Critic
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MNG - San Francisco or Barcelona out of the places I have been, Copenhagen and New York City out of the places I haven't.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I can hear Peter Allen singing right now . . . "I Still Call Australia . . . "
We're not too badly off are we!
Cheers - enjoy today's sunshine and happy Easter
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Never been to Tokyo - but it would be a real mind bender I'd imagine.
Have a Japanese friend from Osaka that I've known for the better part of 25 years or so - and who has come out and stayed with our family every year for the past 16 or 17 who thinks Sydney is just the 'ants pants' - so perhaps no matter where - the grass is always greener.
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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New York is crazy! Went there years ago - and talk about Sydney on 'Droids'.
Frenetic pace, colour, buzz - I remember thinking to myself at the time - that you could genuinely live your entire life in that city and never feel like you've wanted for experience.
I hope you get there one day - it will be worth it.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Never done Quebec - in fact the closest I've been in BC and Calgary - so can't really comment other than to say that the Canadian people have so much in common with Aussies - that there is a strange kinda bond (and not only because of our unique love for America).
Stay well this Easter
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Ain't SF great!
The archectiture and all the burrows really excited me.
From hanging out the side of cable cars to Alcatraz to watching the mist roll in out of nowhere over the Bay - oh - and Fisherman's Wharf and the multitude of sea-lions - yep - it's a keeper for sure.
Comment by Wilson Pon
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Wow! Never been to Norway - or any of Scandinavia for that matter - sounds like the place to be!
Cheers