What cities are interesting right now, world-wide?

[HEyHEY]

I'd say I really want to check out Shang Hai and maybe Dubai.

[crimsonblue]

1. Eerie

[HEyHEY]

2. PA?

[crimsonblue]

12. no

[JCMach1]

3. Give Dubai a few more years once the metro, Dubailand,

and the World's tallest buildings (2 of them), are completed.

The world's largest mall open's late this Fall. Metro Sept., 2009. Burj Dubai around the same time.

Did I mention this place is CRAZY?

[HEyHEY]

4. I've gotsome friends from there

In Vancouver to learn English. So, hopefully I can make the trip and see it non-tourist style. :-)

Still not as multicultural as us ;-)

[crimsonblue]

8. evil

[flvegan]

5. Tampa, and I'll buy you a beer.

Fuck it, whole check is on me.

[HEyHEY]

6. woohoo!

I really hope to get to that course. Sometime in Feb maybe... be nice to get outta the fucking RAIN here.

[JCMach1]

14. I like Tampa

[LeftyMom]

7. Portland was cool for about ten minutes

then the hipsters found out about it.

Glad I didn't move.

[HEyHEY]

9. GRRR..... hipsters I hate them

Still, as far as progressive planning and such go - portland is awesome. I wish this fucking city would take a queue

[LeftyMom]

10. The mayor here keeps talking about having that level of transit, which would be cool but

talking is not the same thing as cutting checks.

Our transit is slow, inconvenient and apparently nobody in power cares that it doubles as a housing system for the homeless. Then again, when asked to hook up to BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit- connects San Francisco and the East Bay) the geniuses who run this burg said no.

[HEyHEY]

11. Don't even get me started on transit....

Vancouver's is so lame. The worst is Skytrain... the have two lines running east to west... but nothing running across North to south. Ugh.... and they just made an announcement.. guess what is? They will be going FARTHER east and FARTHER west... barf....

Once, when i interview the PR douche for translink he says to me ... "People need to get past the perception that we have a bad transit system." Oh,the "Perception" huh? I guess I was just imagining the two buses that passed me today cause they were too full (And late).

Then the PR guy talks about how other cities come here to see our great advanced system.. well, yeah cities like Tulsa meanwhile cities like Tokyo make us look like morons.

[LeftyMom]

13. Supposedly we're eventually getting high speed rail to LA

Which means I'll be able to get halfway to LA by train in about the time it would take me to cross town on a bus, assuming one was actually running.

Something is wrong with this picture. I'll be able to get from here to LA (that's eight hours drive) in under four hours (nevermind that I can do it in an hour for $39 by plane right now) but I won't be able to get a bus home from school because they quit running at seven and the last classes of the night let out after ten.

Of course, a whole lot of politicians commute to Sacramento from homes in SoCal, and none are taking the bus back from night classes, so that's where our money goes.

[Mr. Blonde]

16. Hey be easy on Tulsa

for one our neighbor to the south, OKC, is worse for public transportation.

We do need a lot of work, but when you are a city that greatly benefits from high gas prices it is hard to get anything moving in that direction.

[crispini]

15. Why do you say Shanghai is interesting?

Crowded as hell, very little of historical interest left in the city. Maybe if you have a lot of money to check out stuff intended for the new Richie-Riches of modern China, but if you've got that kind of money, anywhere could be interesting.

[HEyHEY]

19. Just booming and becoming a pop-capital

[WinkyDink]

17. Dubai? Tall buildings, shops, and a defiant nose-thumbing to the oil-starved West.

[JVS]

18. Slutsk in Belarus

[datasuspect]

22. or Nutsak in Slumatia

[Forkboy]

20. Personally, I want to go to Tokyo more than anywhere.

Thought London would be great to check out their music scene. They get the best shows over there. x(

[elehhhhna]

21. Bruge, Berlin, Buenos Aires, and those are just the B's