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Even the criminals here have the good enough taste to nick a bottle of Dom Perignon when they go robbing a grocery store.
OK, your turn! What do you love about where you live?
Why I love my city!
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Even the criminals here have the good enough taste to nick a bottle of Dom Perignon when they go robbing a grocery store.
OK, your turn! What do you love about where you live?
That it isn't Hull. 
^^ I do. 
Also, my neighborhood is full of beautiful young Asian girls.
I love that this is where the Revolution began.
Also, my neighborhood is full of beautiful young Asian girls.
OK, I want to live in your city.
What I love about my city: the history, the old buildings (mine was built in 1580), the crazy university students carrying their sofas and barbecues on the street whenever the temperature goes up, and that I can walk everywhere.
I live in freakin' Los Angeles. Aside from the earthquakes, the brushfires, the mudslides, the riots, the freeway congestion, the fact that it takes at least an hour to get anywhere by car and twice as long by bus, the religious wackos, the political wackos, the plastic people and the plastic breasts, what's not to like?
Why I love Saskatoon by trampledamage aged 39 1/4 
It's a city, but the section I live in is as quiet as a small town. There's more parks than you can throw a stick at. There's a river running straight through the middle of the city. There's a university and three hospitals. Rush-hour lasts about five minutes, and you can get from anywhere to anywhere in about 15 minutes.
I came a really long way to get here, and I don't plan to ever leave
It's a city, but the section I live in is as quiet as a small town. There's more parks than you can throw a stick at. There's a river running straight through the middle of the city. There's a university and three hospitals. Rush-hour lasts about five minutes, and you can get from anywhere to anywhere in about 15 minutes.
I came a really long way to get here, and I don't plan to ever leave
Because if I drop half of a bag of candy pieces on the sidewalk in my home city, I am quite likely to pick them up and eat them anyway, while if the same thing happens in New York, they doubtless go straight into the garbage.
There is a Starbucks on every corner. It is not at all uncommon to have more than one on the same block. At the shopping mall there are three Starbucks in the same concourse. Seattle is filled with spineless, environmentally conscious hippie-commies who I don't really share a commonality with, but the streets are clean, drivers are courteous, and I like that.
I spent most of memorable life living in the Tacoma area, less than an hour away from downtown Seattle, and while I often think about resettling elsewhere, there is no doubt that I view my hometown of some eighteen or so years with distinct fondness.
The C-5 Galaxy transport planes that go in and out of the airforce base nearby are also fun to watch. It seems like there is almost always one visible somewhere in the sky.
There is a Starbucks on every corner. It is not at all uncommon to have more than one on the same block. At the shopping mall there are three Starbucks in the same concourse. Seattle is filled with spineless, environmentally conscious hippie-commies who I don't really share a commonality with, but the streets are clean, drivers are courteous, and I like that.
I spent most of memorable life living in the Tacoma area, less than an hour away from downtown Seattle, and while I often think about resettling elsewhere, there is no doubt that I view my hometown of some eighteen or so years with distinct fondness.
The C-5 Galaxy transport planes that go in and out of the airforce base nearby are also fun to watch. It seems like there is almost always one visible somewhere in the sky.
I spent five days in Edmonton this winter. That was quite enough for me.
Anyway, what do I love about Ottawa? Well, it's a million or so people, so it's big, but not overwhelmingly so. We have a ton of great neighborhoods, and a beautiful, vibrant core. I can walk to 95% of the places I need to go, and there's public transit or bike trails that can get me to the rest. It's a great city, and a great place to live.
I spent five days in Edmonton this winter. That was quite enough for me.
The sad thing is I voluntarily moved here
Actually I guess there is one redeeming quality of Edmonton for me... which is that this is where my job is. And as much as I hate this city, I love my job even more!
I suppose I should try posting a slightly more serious answer. I am getting to know Chicago again, and it's amazing how much I have forgotten in just a few years. My love for the city has not diminished in any way, however.
I love the diversity in the city. I love the variety of cuisines at restaurants and in the grocery aisles. I love having public transportation, even if it's a little gross at times or takes a long time. I love our little neighborhood and being able to take walks along the river late at night. I love that there's always something going on and there are always people out, doing things. I love the amazing museums and other cultural institutions we have here. I love how it looks when the city is lit up at night, and I'm really glad to be back here again.
I love the diversity in the city. I love the variety of cuisines at restaurants and in the grocery aisles. I love having public transportation, even if it's a little gross at times or takes a long time. I love our little neighborhood and being able to take walks along the river late at night. I love that there's always something going on and there are always people out, doing things. I love the amazing museums and other cultural institutions we have here. I love how it looks when the city is lit up at night, and I'm really glad to be back here again.
I live in freakin' Los Angeles. Aside from the earthquakes, the brushfires, the mudslides, the riots, the freeway congestion, the fact that it takes at least an hour to get anywhere by car and twice as long by bus, the religious wackos, the political wackos, the plastic people and the plastic breasts, what's not to like?
You forgot the pollution, the heat, the filth on everything and the homeless people sleeping under awnings.
Lovely place.
Hey, I can't speak for everybody else, but I was completely serious.
I guess I like that Vienna is well administrated - the crime rate is low, the streets get cleaned, trash gets taken away reliably, public transportation works very well and all that.
I like that it's still a somewhat leftist city in general, although a lot has changed since the glory days of "Red Vienna", the socialists/social democrats have won every single democratic election in Vienna ever, the Green party is strong too and it's said that the city of Vienna is the largest landlord in the world with its public housing programs (I don't know if it's true, but it doesn't seem absurd to me).
The quality of living is high and it's very "compact" for a city that big I think, from where I live I can be walking in the forest or swimming on a sort of beach or be in the city center within 15 minutes on my bicycle.
As criticism though, a famous comedian once sang a song about how beautiful Vienna would be without the Viennese people and often I can't disagree.
I like that it's still a somewhat leftist city in general, although a lot has changed since the glory days of "Red Vienna", the socialists/social democrats have won every single democratic election in Vienna ever, the Green party is strong too and it's said that the city of Vienna is the largest landlord in the world with its public housing programs (I don't know if it's true, but it doesn't seem absurd to me).
The quality of living is high and it's very "compact" for a city that big I think, from where I live I can be walking in the forest or swimming on a sort of beach or be in the city center within 15 minutes on my bicycle.
As criticism though, a famous comedian once sang a song about how beautiful Vienna would be without the Viennese people and often I can't disagree.