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Melbourne!! By far the best!! :D

Brugge/Bruges/Brujas: again, there's no place like home (pity our city is always packed with tourists, who can't seem to understand there's a SIDEWALK for PEDESTRIANS and it is NOT allowed to walk on the street itself :mad: )
And a second: Tolon. A Greek town near the sea. I'd spend the rest of my days over there if i could.. so relaxing. :p

[QUOTE GLASGOW SMILES BETTER QUOTE]
And thats official

Best city?

Sydney, Australia. I worked there for 9 weeks and loved it.

San Diego and San Fransisco are pretty nice for American cities but not a patch on Sydney.

London is overrated and too bloated. Manchester is a better place definitely. But Edinburgh is gorgeous, especially in the Burke and Hare bar!

Dublin is a great city too, and Amsterdam.

Nottingham? Hah! If you want to live in the city with the highest amount of gum crime in the UK.

Oh no!! Gum crime!! How terrible!!
Anyways, i think the best city i've been to is New York

Paris may be the best city in the world... great culture and cosmopolitan living, yet you can live in a lovely, small-town-like neighborhood and know all the shopkeepers. And I really love how everyone still observes niceties such as greeting each other in stores and excusing themselves if they bump into each other on the street (unlike in Philadelphia, where they make snide comments and shoot each other dirty looks, or in Seville where people are just totally oblivious). Plus I think it'd be a wonderful place to raise kids.



Paris is a disgustingly filthy city with large arab ghettos, rape is common (remember the case of the 13 year old girl who was gang raped by 80, yes 80, arab men)

Philadelphia, it's not the shooting of dirty looks I'd be worried about, it's the shooting of guns, by "gangstas", at normal folks.

Paris is a slum, Seville is a slum, Philadelphia is beneath a slum.

You have some oddly romanticized idea of how big city life works, I suggest you figure it out for real before you move to one and get shot or stabbed by a common street criminal.

For your own sake, research things, okay?

How is Mentor a city? It barely has over 50,000 inhabitants...

Nottingham? Hah! If you want to live in the city with the highest amount of gum crime in the UK.

Whites have to stay away from East London? I wish someone told me that before I started living here... Bleh, I'd rather living in an inner city area than any bland, mass manufactured suburb.

I haven't been to many cities... Paris alway seemed pretty though.


Mentor is a city because we have it all, we have some light industry, railroads, docks, good schools, police, and we're like 98% white, you can't what Mentor has to offer. Although it's still not enough for me (too many people) so I think I'll move to one of those cities where it's really just a rural county with 50-60 people, and they're all related somehow. (Maybe rural Idaho or North Dakota)

Toronto - for the multicultural atmosphere (The United Nations has designated Toronto as the World's "most ethnically-diverse city" five times in a row) and the active nightlife downtown.


I think he asked for a city, not a 3rd world cesspool slum... You must be confused, like the other poster already theorized.

Cape Town - South Africa



There is a reason the Boer and Afrikaner call it "rape town" (go there and find out, or take my word on in and avoid travel to South Africa)

As sad as it is to say, South Africa is a "no-go" area.

Mentor is a city because we have it all, we have some light industry, railroads, docks, good schools, police, and we're like 98% white, you can't what Mentor has to offer. Although it's still not enough for me (too many people) so I think I'll move to one of those cities where it's really just a rural county with 50-60 people, and they're all related somehow. (Maybe rural Idaho or North Dakota)You have the strangest definition of a city ever.

Way too close to Cleveland


Which is why Ohio has nice gun laws, if there is ever a riot, you're good and ready to defend yourself and your family.

Mentor is a city because we have it all, we have some light industry, railroads, docks, good schools, police, and we're like 98% white, you can't what Mentor has to offer. Although it's still not enough for me (too many people) so I think I'll move to one of those cities where it's really just a rural county with 50-60 people, and they're all related somehow. (Maybe rural Idaho or North Dakota)
Cool - maybe you can do us all a favor and find someplace with no internet

I think he asked for a city, not a 3rd world cesspool slum... You must be confused, like the other poster already theorized.
Why are cowardly little losers who can't handle themselves in a city posting on this thread anyway?

You have the strangest definition of a city ever.
Indeed. Leaving aside the size issue (that's an American thing, I guess), I wasn't aware that the classification of a community as a city implied good schools and an ethnic monoculture.

I guess New York, London et al just aren't cities then. :confused:

I guess New York, London et al just aren't cities then. :confused:

They're just large slums, I've seen them both and I wasn't impressed with either.

Why are cowardly little losers who can't handle themselves in a city posting on this thread anyway?


Why are uppity yuppies who can't stand hardened rural folk, criticizing those who reject the plague of urban insanity, social decay, and moral depravity, and decide to live outside of cities (large slums)?

They're just large slums, I've seen them both and I wasn't impressed with either.
From your previous posts, I'm sure the feeling was mutual.

Louisville, Kentucky, is the greatest city in the history of the Universe. Here is my assertion, taken from bulldogsinthebluegrass.com (http://www.bulldogsinthebluegrass.com/students/louisville.asp):
QUALITY OF LIFE:

Louisville has been consistently ranked by Places Rated Almanac as one of the best places to live in the United States.
Louisville has one of the nation's most extensive metropolitan park systems, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, the architect of New York's Central Park.
Louisville is one of the few U.S. cities its size with professional opera, theater, orchestra and ballet. In 1996, Time Magazine theater critic Richard Corliss said Louisville's theater is so good that "From now on, maybe Broadway should be called "off-Louisville." (Time, April 6, 1996, Page 90)
Louisville was named one of the "30 Great Cities to Start Out In" in a book by that name published in 1997. In 1994, The Wall Street Journal listed Louisville as one of the 10 best large cities in which to launch a career.


EDUCATION:

Louisville's public school system was the first ever to receive the Scholastic Community Award for Excellence in Education (1993).
Louisville is home to the Gheens Professional Development Academy, a national model for teacher training.
In a 1998 "report card on public education", Education Week magazine praised Louisville's public school system as a leader in student achievement and implementing school reforms.


HEALTH CARE:

Louisville is a major health care center. The health care industry employs more people in Louisville than any other private sector service industry -- a total of 44,800 jobs.
Internationally recognized work is being done in Louisville-area hospitals in the fields of spinal disease, organ transplants, cancer research, microcirculatory research and hand surgery.
When Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, severed the tip of a finger in a farm accident just outside Cincinnati, he was flown to Louisville's Kleinert Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center to have it reattached.
Louisville's Jewish Hospital is the nation's 8th largest heart hospital and 26th largest organ transplant facility.
Kosair Children's Hospital was named one of America's 10 best children's hospitals by Child magazine in 1993 and was the second hospital in the U.S. to perform infant heart transplants.
The Jefferson County Health Department is the nation's oldest county health department.


AUTOMOTIVE:

The largest automotive plant in North America isn't in Detroit... it isn't Japanese owned... and it doesn't even make cars. It's Ford Kentucky Truck Plant, which produces commercial versions of the F-Series pick-up truck. The facility measures nearly 4.7 million square feet -- more than 107 acres - under roof. The plant underwent a $650 million expansion in 1992, and another $500 million expansion began in early 1998.
Ford's other local facility, the Louisville Assembly Plant, has the fastest line speed of any automotive plant in the world.
Four of the ten best selling vehicles in the U.S. are manufactured in or near Louisville: the number one selling truck (and overall best selling vehicle), the Ford F-series pick-up; the number one selling automobile, the Toyota Camry; the number one sports utility vehicle, the Ford Explorer; and the number one selling small pick-up, the Ford Ranger.


UPS:

In 1982, UPS opened its air cargo hub in Louisville. The company started out with 7 places and 250 employees and boldly predicted it would grow to 1,500 employees. Today UPS employs more than 15,000 workers in Louisville and is the largest private employer in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
United Parcel Service, the world's largest common carrier, operates its international air-freight hub out of Louisville. Every day UPS places fly out of Louisville International Airport for destinations in 180 countries.
Louisville International Airport is the 5th busiest air-cargo terminal in the U.S. and 8th busiest in the world.
UPS also has its international customer service center in Louisville. It employs about 220 people, many of them multi-lingual, to respond to questions or requests about international shipping -- everything from export paperwork requirements to customs clearance procedures.
Rolls Royce, the legendary British car manufacturer, warehouses all of its parts for the North American market in Louisville. When a Beverly Hills tycoon loses the hood ornament off his quarter-million dollar Silver Ghost, he is not about to wait two weeks for a replacement to come over from London on the QE II. He expects a new one the next day, and he gets it. Via UPS. From Louisville, Kentucky.


LOUISVILLE IS:

Home of the world's largest restaurant company, Tricon Global Restaurants, which operates the KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut restaurant chains.
Home of the Kentucky Derby, "Run for the Roses", known as "the greatest two minutes in sports.
Home of the first electric trolley
Home of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat.
Home of the oldest city supported college in the U.S., the University of Louisville.
World's center for Braille printing.
One of the top convention and trade show cities in the U.S., on a par with much larger cities, such as Dallas and Atlanta.


KENTUCKY:

Kentucky ranked seventh in the U.S. in new/expanded plastics facilities from 1990 to 1995, according to Site Selection Magazine.
Eight of the world's 10 largest manufacturing companies have facilities in Kentucky (Source: Industry Week).
Kentucky's business climate was ranked in the top 10 of all states in 1996 by Financial World magazine.


FAMOUS LOUISVILLIANS:

Muhammad Ali, three time heavyweight boxing champion

Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Thomas A. Edison, inventor

Zachary Taylor, U.S. President

Louis Brandeis, first Jewish Supreme Court Justice

Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame baseball player

Paul Hornung, former professional football player

Diane Sawyer, ABC newscaster

Victor Mature, actor

Ned Beatty, actor

Tom Cruise, actor

Irene Dunne, actress

Lionel Hampton, jazz musician

Foster Brooks, comedian

I think Helsinki is the best city on the world, because it's beautiful and it's got a small town-feeling. The sea air smells nice and it's nice to look at ships in the harbor. But still, countryside rules :) .

I think Helsinki is the best city on the world, because it's beautiful and it's got a small town-feeling. The sea air smells nice and it's nice to look at ships in the harbor. But still, countryside rules :) .
I've been there once, and liked it a lot. However, I went in February and all I remember of how it looks is snow. Snow on the buildings, on the ground and in the air. Bloody cold too, especially since I was there for a conference and only had a business suit and overcoat between me and your climate.

For me:

- Prague and Ghent are gorgeous cities.
- New York is an experience out on it's own. People compare it to London, but London is more like Madrid. New York has a much better vibe.
- The only good thing about Manchester and Nottingham is that they have Test Cricket grounds! I have never enjoyed going anywhere in Manchester other than to the Cricket.
- Morecambe (whilst not a city) is a nicer place than Blackpool, even though there isn't anything much in Morecambe any more.
- Liverpool has fantastic buildings, great people, wonderful theatres and galleries, cool nightlife, a brilliant music scene and there's a good feel to the place. That's why I live here!

Everywhere has it's good and bad points I suppose. It's probably down to personal experience.

Guy advocating New York:
I'm not saying New York is a bad city; it's just I think the huge wealth and variety of history (2000 years old, centre of one of the largest empires in history and all that), etc., in London, and its not total lacking on the cultural scene, gives it an edge.
The deep-fried Mars bar is actually a widely doubted myth from Scotland, not London.
And Heathrow has been shown statistically to be the world's busiest airport as a fact.

My hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. i really hate it and love it all at the same time. Sure, we're broke, have suck sports teams, high crime rate (both violent and non-violent) (and it's rising), but everytime I meet somebody new I always find a common bond just because everyone seems to know each other, plus we have the best urban view in the United States and 2nd best overall...

View report here! (http://www.usaweekend.com/03_issues/030518/030518springtravel.html)

also, here is Pittsburgh's home site with great pics plus the boat fleet were I work...

Scenes of Pittsburgh (http://www.pittsburgh.net/gallery.cfm)

And Heathrow has been shown statistically to be the world's busiest airport as a fact.

Don't do that. Don't tell me I'm wrong and expect me to take it on faith.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_busiest_airport

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-07-16-ord-atl_x.htm

http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:45874594&refid=ink_puballmags&skeyword=&teaser=

You want more corroboration, or are you going to tell me I'm statistically wrong as a fact.

I do, however, apologize about the Mars bar crack. That was uncalled for.

Well, 'Largest number of international passengers annually'.
It's close.

I'd have to say Melbourne, but I'm not totally unbiased about it.

Helsinki, Finland.

Ghent, of course!

Granada, in Spain. The climate, the mountains, the food, the people, and ohhh the Alhambra.

"Dale limosna, mujer, que no hay en la vida nada como la pena de ser ciego en Granada." -- Francisco Alarcón de Icaza

And, yet, 280 posts into the thread it's still New Orleans, Louisiana. :p

Brisbane! You have to live here to understand how awesome it is!:D Slow pace of a country town with a population of 1Mil, wonderful tropical weather, golden beaches for 100's of kilometers (except at Brisbane its self :rolleyes: ), nice people. The buildings, parks, monuments, the lifestyle! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I haven't been to as many as I'd like, but from the few I have, I'd have to say New York. It is so vibrant and full of energy, as well as cosmopolitan, and in its own way, beautiful. It truely is the capital of the free world.

The deep-fried Mars bar is actually a widely doubted myth from Scotland, not London.

Two Wongs resteraunt at Toowong has both deep fried ice cream and deep fried mars bars, they also deep fry sandwiches/pizza. How very traditional asian cooking from those two Wongs at Toowong!:p (and what clever word play Mr & Mrs Wong have used in naming their resteraunt).

Milwaukee WI used to to be great in German stuff but it is going down the drain in tradition.

not bad is cologne :cool:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the saying goes. Personally I love London and think it is the most exciting and wonderful place to live, its myth (apparantly London was founded by Brute the Trojan in 1300BC. Hmmmm...), culture and history. A city doesn't have to be all pretty and have the best transport etc. Its about what the people who live there think of it. I love London, and everyone I know loves living in London so for us London is the best city in the world.

Sydney is spectacular, especially around the harbour.
Moscow and St. Petersburg are also beautiful.

Sydney, cos I'm biased, but I love Vancouver :D

Denver! Go Denver! Go Broncos!

*cough* I also like Minneapolis *cough* :D

Ljubljana :)

New Orleans for all around fun. They have an amusment part (albeit cheap) one of the largest aquariums in the world. Ginormous (yes i know i used that word) zoo, and kickazss nightlife. Therre are also lots of swingers clubs too. but i wouldn't know anything about that :rolleyes:

and if you want to have fun, go walk through the cemeterys....quite interesting.

New Orleans for all around fun. They have an amusment part (albeit cheap) one of the largest aquariums in the world. Ginormous (yes i know i used that word) zoo, and kickazss nightlife. Therre are also lots of swingers clubs too. but i wouldn't know anything about that :rolleyes:

and if you want to have fun, go walk through the cemeterys....quite interesting.
Ahhh New Orleans... where I had my first threesome :D

Still Austin, Tx.

Zilker Park
Barton Creek Springs, a spring fed public swimming pool
The bats under Congress St. bridge. It's the largest urban bat colony, fun to watch at sunset.
The state capitol building. It's the largest (of course, this is Texas) even larger than the national capitol. Made of all native stone
6th Street- best party place in the world. Blocks of bars, clubs and restuarants, on weekends this is blocked to vehicle traffic, everybody walks. Also has street musicians and artists, one guy's been there forever doing his paintings live.
The Drag, near UT, all kinds of neat boutiques, plus an outdoor market.
Good mass transit, considering it's in the south.
The Guadalupe River, great place for tubing or canoeing.
Plenty of jobs, especially in tech industries.
Very liberal. And weird. Lots of T-shirts saying "Keep Austin Weird" We had a transvestite homeless guy run for mayor. Against a guy who claimed to be a mob hitman.(neither won, it's not quite that weird)
Home of Madelaine Murray O'Hair :p
Even for Austin she was a little weird.
Laid back Texas attitude with yuppies, hippies and cowboys. :D

Reykjavík is okay but I like Dublin, Kiel, Berlin, New York City, Charlotte, Orlando, Oslo, Lund the best. Oh, and parts of London, England, were all the royal and old stuff is.

I know I have many in there but I can't make up my mind. Sorry.

I just read the thread.

No one has yet to mention Denver?! WOW! :eek:

I just read the thread.

No one has yet to mention Denver?! WOW! :eek:

Yes they did, they even said "go Broncos"

Besides me ;)

one of the best cities in the world, where europa and asia meet.

one of the best cities in the world, where europa and asia meet.
How come I don't see anything in the news about Jupiter's moon crashing into Earth? :D (j/k ;) )

How come I don't see anything in the news about Jupiter's moon crashing into Earth? :D (j/k ;) )

Do you think maybe he meant Titan? :D

I love Sydney. It's beautiful and vibrant, although CityRail is evil! Evil! I love browsing through second hand bookstores in Newtown, or eating gelato on the lawn outside th MCA. I love the thunderstorms and the fact that my house there is on a ridge so we have views for ages.

I also like Durban. It has this delicious tropical decaying quality. The old Victorian buildings shed paint like skin, there are fruit trees everywhere. We had mangoes, passionfruit, lychees and pawpaws. The beaches, the mangroves, the humidity that feels like the walls are sweating. The smell of spices, mangoes and the sea.

Singapore, no doubt.

Do you think maybe he meant Titan? :D
Don't think so...

And I"m utterly confused by that. :D

BOSTON!

My hometown, so it gets a vote, or rather, Cambridge MA does!

My favorite cities aside from those (in no particular order):

Hong Kong SAR (yes, even now, I love HK -- it's like my second home.)
Monastir, Tunisia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Beijing, China
Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China
New York City, NY, USA
Geneva, Switzerland
San Francisco, CA, USA
Dublin, Ireland (on St. Patrick's Day at least...)

God, I've been a lot of places...

Ge-Ren

stuttgart

wow thats quite a bump.


well i dunno if i said it before, but i say Amsterdam. after that San Francisco.

Feck off necromancer

in my opinion the best city is STUTTGART in germany. does anybody knows stuttgart?

In my opinion, Stuttgart is the most terrible city in the world. By all means. Worst people, worst traffic, worst politics, worst business practice... :gundge:
FYI I'm from Karlsruhe. :cool: (not the best city, too, OK)
The best city I personally know is Paris, France.

Antwerp rules the waves of European waters

Whoo! Go Berlin! The place is beautiful now.

Providence, R.I.
Worchester, MA.
The 2 best in New England.

Worst: San Diego, CA.
Quebec (I know "french" people are supposed to be rude but there is a limit)

My favorite city that I've visited (for long enough to get to know it) would probably be New York City, due to the culture, the transportation, and how close everything is to your home. There's only one city I know of that has similar characteristics, and probably none of you have heard of it: Ohrid, Macedonia, where I used to live. (It counts as a city, as it has 55,000 people.) Unlike the USA, Ohrid isn't a specializing city: the pharmacy, bakery, general store, and fresh foods markets are all found in one store. It had very little traffic. Ohrid was a poor town by US standards, but it had no slums and very little crime. Most people were safe leaving their doors unlocked at night. Which is more than I can say for anywhere in the US...

(With the possible exception of tiny rural towns where everyone knows everyone else and crime is virtually impossible.)

London, Paris, Florence, Quebec City, Rio De Janeiro, Tokyo

Barcelona. Fantastic.

Louisville, Kentucky, is the greatest city in the history of the Universe. Here is my assertion, taken from bulldogsinthebluegrass.com (http://www.bulldogsinthebluegrass.com/students/louisville.asp):
QUALITY OF LIFE:

Louisville has been consistently ranked by Places Rated Almanac as one of the best places to live in the United States.
Louisville has one of the nation's most extensive metropolitan park systems, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, the architect of New York's Central Park.
Louisville is one of the few U.S. cities its size with professional opera, theater, orchestra and ballet. In 1996, Time Magazine theater critic Richard Corliss said Louisville's theater is so good that "From now on, maybe Broadway should be called "off-Louisville." (Time, April 6, 1996, Page 90)
Louisville was named one of the "30 Great Cities to Start Out In" in a book by that name published in 1997. In 1994, The Wall Street Journal listed Louisville as one of the 10 best large cities in which to launch a career.


EDUCATION:

Louisville's public school system was the first ever to receive the Scholastic Community Award for Excellence in Education (1993).
Louisville is home to the Gheens Professional Development Academy, a national model for teacher training.
In a 1998 "report card on public education", Education Week magazine praised Louisville's public school system as a leader in student achievement and implementing school reforms.


HEALTH CARE:

Louisville is a major health care center. The health care industry employs more people in Louisville than any other private sector service industry -- a total of 44,800 jobs.
Internationally recognized work is being done in Louisville-area hospitals in the fields of spinal disease, organ transplants, cancer research, microcirculatory research and hand surgery.
When Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, severed the tip of a finger in a farm accident just outside Cincinnati, he was flown to Louisville's Kleinert Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center to have it reattached.
Louisville's Jewish Hospital is the nation's 8th largest heart hospital and 26th largest organ transplant facility.
Kosair Children's Hospital was named one of America's 10 best children's hospitals by Child magazine in 1993 and was the second hospital in the U.S. to perform infant heart transplants.
The Jefferson County Health Department is the nation's oldest county health department.


AUTOMOTIVE:

The largest automotive plant in North America isn't in Detroit... it isn't Japanese owned... and it doesn't even make cars. It's Ford Kentucky Truck Plant, which produces commercial versions of the F-Series pick-up truck. The facility measures nearly 4.7 million square feet -- more than 107 acres - under roof. The plant underwent a $650 million expansion in 1992, and another $500 million expansion began in early 1998.
Ford's other local facility, the Louisville Assembly Plant, has the fastest line speed of any automotive plant in the world.
Four of the ten best selling vehicles in the U.S. are manufactured in or near Louisville: the number one selling truck (and overall best selling vehicle), the Ford F-series pick-up; the number one selling automobile, the Toyota Camry; the number one sports utility vehicle, the Ford Explorer; and the number one selling small pick-up, the Ford Ranger.


UPS:

In 1982, UPS opened its air cargo hub in Louisville. The company started out with 7 places and 250 employees and boldly predicted it would grow to 1,500 employees. Today UPS employs more than 15,000 workers in Louisville and is the largest private employer in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
United Parcel Service, the world's largest common carrier, operates its international air-freight hub out of Louisville. Every day UPS places fly out of Louisville International Airport for destinations in 180 countries.
Louisville International Airport is the 5th busiest air-cargo terminal in the U.S. and 8th busiest in the world.
UPS also has its international customer service center in Louisville. It employs about 220 people, many of them multi-lingual, to respond to questions or requests about international shipping -- everything from export paperwork requirements to customs clearance procedures.
Rolls Royce, the legendary British car manufacturer, warehouses all of its parts for the North American market in Louisville. When a Beverly Hills tycoon loses the hood ornament off his quarter-million dollar Silver Ghost, he is not about to wait two weeks for a replacement to come over from London on the QE II. He expects a new one the next day, and he gets it. Via UPS. From Louisville, Kentucky.


LOUISVILLE IS:

Home of the world's largest restaurant company, Tricon Global Restaurants, which operates the KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut restaurant chains.
Home of the Kentucky Derby, "Run for the Roses", known as "the greatest two minutes in sports.
Home of the first electric trolley
Home of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat.
Home of the oldest city supported college in the U.S., the University of Louisville.
World's center for Braille printing.
One of the top convention and trade show cities in the U.S., on a par with much larger cities, such as Dallas and Atlanta.


KENTUCKY:

Kentucky ranked seventh in the U.S. in new/expanded plastics facilities from 1990 to 1995, according to Site Selection Magazine.
Eight of the world's 10 largest manufacturing companies have facilities in Kentucky (Source: Industry Week).
Kentucky's business climate was ranked in the top 10 of all states in 1996 by Financial World magazine.


FAMOUS LOUISVILLIANS:

Muhammad Ali, three time heavyweight boxing champion

Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Thomas A. Edison, inventor

Zachary Taylor, U.S. President

Louis Brandeis, first Jewish Supreme Court Justice

Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame baseball player

Paul Hornung, former professional football player

Diane Sawyer, ABC newscaster

Victor Mature, actor

Ned Beatty, actor

Tom Cruise, actor

Irene Dunne, actress

Lionel Hampton, jazz musician

Foster Brooks, comedian
Right on! The Ville is totally righteous!
You forgot to mention:

Education: Louisville is home to a number of wonderful private schools such as Trinity, St. X, Assumption, and Presentation and those are just some of the great schools run by diocese. Non-Catholic private schools in Louisville include Louisville Collegiate, Christian Academy, Kentucky Country Day, and many more.

Health Care: Jewish Hospital in downtown Louisville performed one of the worlds first hand transplants and is recognized as a national leader in heart care.

Churchhill Downs: While you mentioned the derby you forgot to mention the home of the derby, Churchhill Downs. Recently renovated, it is one of the most beautiful and state of the art horse racing facilities in the world as well as the most prestigious. Also, it is home to the Kentucky Oaks, a less known race for fillies, called Louisvilles day at the races. It is a wonderful racing experience.

Heck, the whole Kentucky Derby Festival.
http://www.kdf.org/
including Thunder Over Louisville, the Pegasis Parade, the Minimarathon, and a total of 100 events this year. It's Derby season, and it rocks.

College Sports: The University of Louisville finished the men's football and basketball seasons ranked 6th and 3rd in the NCAA as well as 17th in women's volleyball. If your a UK fan like me, you don't have much to cheere for outside of men's basketball. The U of L UK mens basketball games is one of the fiercest rivalries in college sports. Every other year it is held in Louisville's Freedom Hall.

Fourth Street Live, one of the top urban developement projects according to the Urban Land Institute is an amazing mall located in dowtown Louisville.

I'm going to miss the Ville. Hopefully we get a downtown arena by the time I return!

The best place I've been would be Minneapolis/St. Paul... certainly the Minneapolis part. I went there last year and I was amazed at how friendly a place it is, how great the reataurants are, how good a night life it has, and how much they love their hockey.

I bet you wouldn't be saying that if you lived there. :(

Melbourne.

i don't make a vote, cause there are too much ;)

in my opinion the best city is STUTTGART in germany. does anybody knows stuttgart?

i don't like cities. to many people. but if i had to say one i'd say qaanaaq or ulaan baatar.

Rome.

Culture, food, history, and nice people.

Oh yeah, and good ice cream.

You want culture? Then go to Barcelona. You want a good soccer team? Then go to Madrid.

London RULES!!! :D

Dublin, Ireland. It's such a nice, run-down, lived-in, cosy, honest place...

Montreal, Canada. Best city on the planet.

Melbourne, remember it was voted the best city in the world, so huh! Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne, oi oi oi

What about FunkyTown? Or that other one - can't remember what country its in. They built it on Rock'n'Roll.