Most loved/hated cities.
 

I got to thinking about this after having spent considerable time in the two cities I hate the most over the past three weeks. So I started wondering how others felt about various cities. What cities do you love to be in and which cities do you want to stay away from?

Here's my list:

Most loved cities
1. Phoenix, AZ
2. Las Vegas, NV
3. Denver, CO

Most hated cities
1. Boulder, CO
2. Albuquerque, NM
3. Flagstaff, AZ / Sante Fe, NM (tie)

Most Loved:
1. Boston, Ma
2. Dallas, Tx
3. Orlando, Fl, Vancouver B.C. tie

Most hated:
1.San Antonio, Tx
2. Los Angeles, Ca
3. Washington D.C.

Most Loved:
1. Boulder, CO
2. Denver, CO
3. Fort Collins, CO

Most Hated:
1. Boulder, CO
2. Loveland, CO (only because Loveland police are dishonest cockbites who pull the wrong people over and then give them tickets for speeds higher than the speed the person was going with court fees that are higher than the cost of the ticket...it's a long story)
3. Small towns in TX...I'd say all of TX, but you asked for cities, not states.

hey mirevolver, eat it, boulder rulz =P kidding!

Most loved
1.Boulder, Co
2.Loveland,CO
3.Anywhere but here

Most hated
1.Rocksprings, WY
2.Border towns in Utah
3.anythign without moutains...

Most Loved (West Coast)
1. Seattle
2. Oakland (scruffier than SF, but 'way more interesting if you don't mind a little urban street action)
3. Santa Cruz

Most UnLoved

1. Bakersfield, CA
2. Modesto, CA (makes Sacramento look good)
3. Redding. There. Is. NOTHING. To. Do. In. Redding. NOTHING!

Most UnLoved International:

Bangkok. Whatta pit. Rest of Thailand's fine, though.

Loved:

1. Rome
2. San Diego
3. Tulsa, Oklahoma (i'm biased, but i really do love the place)

Unloved:

1. Houston
2. Las Vegas
3. Los Angeles

since i'm from canada, this might be a little biased and all
but here we go:
loved:
1. Montreal (it's just such a beautiful city and such nice places)
2. Toronto (so much fun over there, heh, I live about 30 mins away)
3. Playa Del Carmen, Mexico (all inclusive resorts rock!)

hated:
1. Victoria, B.C. (weather sucks and there's nothing to do out there)
2. ...damn I can't really think of any others....guess I haven't been many places
I'd recommend montreal to anyone in the eastern/northern part of the states...it's a beautiful city with awesome skiing and many other fun things, and the drinking age is only 18!

Love:
San Francisco
Washington D.C.
Chicago

Don't Love
Paducah KY - hate this town
Orlando
Amarillo

Love:
Seattle
San Francisco
Charleston, SC

Hate:
LA
Atlanta
Miami

Love:
Paopao, Society Islands
New York, USA
Seattle, USA

Hate:
Orlando, USA
Tijuana, Mexico
Los Angeles, USA

LOVE:
San Jose, CA
Monterey, CA
Santa Cruz, CA

DESPISE:
Des Moines, IA
Ames, IA
Ankeny, IA
(pretty much the entire state of IA)

Love:
Traverse City, MI
Jacksonville, FL
Morehead City, NC

Hate:
Dayton, OH
Huntsville, AL
Detroit, MI

Love- Atlanta, Georgia
Toronto (ummmm....)

Hate- Atlantic City, New Jersey
Trenton, New Jersey
(for reasons that need not be detailed here)

Love:

NYC

Hate:

Washington DC
Baltimore, MD
Cumberland, MD

I lived near DC & Baltimore. Both are massively overrated and full of ghettos and liberals. I'll pass. I grew up in Cumberland. It sucks. It's full of retarded obese people who think fluoridated water is evil and causes about every disease known to man despite the fact that the rest of the civilized world uses it without incident.

best...

Tokyo
Sydney
London


worst...

Los Angeles
Fresno
Brisbane
( and Canberra if there for more than a day)

Favorite:
NYC, NY
New Haven, CT
Fairfield, CT (I live here, so do a lot of friends)

Least Favorite
Knoxville, TN (visited, stayed in UT dorms, cops called us in twice in one night, once because of guys driving aroudn with a shotgun mugging people, once because of a bunch of gang members with automatic weapons being pulled over right near the dorm we were in)
Fairfield, CT (It's a love/hate thing, boring as hell, old white person town, roads suck)
Cant' really think of a third.

Favorite:
NYC
San Diego
Toronto

Least Favorite:
Atlantic City, NJ
Boston, MA
Montreal

I'd put Newark, NJ there, but it's less a city than a hole filled with rubble and some cars.

Favorite:

Moscow
Sydney
Amsterdam

Least favorite:

Canberra (bad for living, otherwise a great place in which to be raised or to die)
Prague (poisoned by tourists)

It's hard to think of any places I've actually been to that I don't have some good feelings for. Even had to think hard to put down Prague. As far as places I've only heard about, Fresno seems to pop up as a hellhole a lot more than one would expect for a city its size, and Tolyatti in Russia, where the second biggest activity after manufacturing cars is killing journalists who write to much about the first activity, doesn't really sing out much to me as a place I'd like to see.

On another point looking at the other posts, it seems like few people have been out of North America. Is this right, or is it just because foreign cities don't show up on the extremes of hated/loved? Or don't Americans like to travel?

Most Loved:
Switzerland
Paris
Belgrade

Most Hated:
Newark NJ
Boston, MA
London (some parts)

Love
New York City
Columbus, OH
Park City, UT
Hate
Detroit, MI
Toledo, OH
Provo, UT

Love (no order):
Singapore City
Christchurch, NZ
Wanaka, NZ

Hate:
Jogjakarta(sp), Indonesia - pollution...

Love:
Baltimore (city advantages without city mentality)
Vancouver, Canada (absolutely beautiful)
San Francisco (may change - just so diff than what i'm used to)

Hate:
Washington D.C.
Tampa, FL (all of FL for that matter, only thing going for it is the weather)
Alexandria, VA (well, northern VA in general - where the hell do those people learn to drive??)

My favourites...

Vancouver BC (I love mountains, hiking in summer and snowboarding in winter :))
San Francisco
Seattle (With a Starbucks at every corner why not!?)

Dislike...

Toronto (People are too pushy for me there)
Portland, OR

Like:

San Diego
Charleston
Anywhere on Mount Desert Island *other* than Bar Harbor

Hate:

Charlotte, NC
Charleston (damn tourists!)
Any place full of suburban sprawl

Happy:
Vancouver
San Francisco (mostly 'cause of Amoeba in Haight)
Las Vegas (Pai Gow Poker rules!)

Sad:
Salt Lake City
Orlando (at least the south side with all the theme parks)

On the Bubble:
Los Angeles

Liked:

Denver
San Fran
Seattle


Disliked

Gillette WY
Dalhart TX
OK City, OK

you love and hate boulder? :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

thank god for woodhead for mentioning one of the greatest cities on earth:

Best:
1. Amsterdam! (even if, like many people, you aren't a druggie or a pervert)

2. Rome (tourists don't have the best time, but living there is great... take a walk around the side streets near the Pantheon... get lost for hours

3. The Village in NYC (because its like amsterdam)

And for any africa buffs: Lusaka is a great city, much better than Nairobi, but you have to enjoy living in Africa for what it is

Worst:
1. most of NH
2. Boston, MA (obviously I'm not a big New England fan)
3. Addis Ababa (Ethiopia is just royally a bad place to live)

Yes. I love it becuase I can walk, bike, and bus everywhere, and only drive if I want to. I hate it because of all the hippie bums on Pearl Street asking for money and not leaving you the f#%k alone when you tell them you have no money. If they want money, they can get a f#%king job. I love it because of all the different cultures and acceptance of everyone no matter where you're from, and for the most part, what you believe (in the God sense, not in politics). I hate it because it's run by people soo liberal that they think it's okay to protest the college of engineering working with engineering firms to give students internships because the firms have national defense contracts with the United States government. I love it for some of the people I've met there. I hate it for some of the idiots I've met there. I love it because it's right next to the mountains, and Denver is just a short drive down highway 36. I hate it becuase the city blames the college students for all the rioting when most of the people that are actually rioting don't attend the university. So yes, Boulder, CO is #1 on both my most loved and most hated cities list, at the same time.

Best:

Taipei
Tokyo/Naha/Kyoto/Osaka
Eugene, OR

Least Fav:

Las Vegas (I've lived here way too long)
Phoenix
LA

Loved:
Manhattan
Buenos Aires
HongKong

I see a trend of loved CITIES and hated STATES! awesome!

Liked:
New Orleans
Chicago
Boston

Disliked:
San Antonio
Indianapolis

loved:
1 fort wayne ,IN
2 colordo springs, co
3venice , Italy

hated
1rome
2denver
3st louis

loved:
boston
atlanta
Paris

hated:

Gary, IN
Atlantic City, NJ
London

The score so far (only listing cities with multiple responses)
Positive responses
New York (7)(or versions of)
San Francisco (6)
Seattle (5)
Boston (3)
San Diego (3)
Toronto (3)
Vancouver (3)
Amsterdam (2)
Boulder (2)
Charleston SC (2)
Chicago (2)
Denver (2)
Las Vegas (2)
Paris (2)
Rome (2)
Santa Cruz (2)
Tokyo (2)

Negative responses
Las Angeles (6)
Boston (3)
Orlando (3)
Washington DC (3)
Atlantic City (2)
Boulder (2)
Detroit (2)
Las Vegas (2)
London (2)
San Antonio (2)

Most Loved:
LA

Most Hated:
Sedona AZ

Most loved
Copenhagen
Stockholm
London

Loved
NYC
Paris
Toronto
Hong Kong

Not so much, thanks
Las Vegas (there really doesn't seem to be a there there)
Buffalo
Taipei (might change on further visits)
Seoul (might change on further visits)

Loved Cities:

Melbourne, Australia ('cause it's the farthest I've gotten, and it's got great beaches)
Barcelona, Spain (Architecture...sitting outside drinking sangria looking at a house that looks like it was built out of bone )
San Diego, California (more beach! Warm, sunny, nice people)
Brussels, Belguim (the chocolate, the beer, and the little peeing boy statue)
New York City ('cause it really is that good)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (even the hookers on the street do that two cheek kissing thing)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (yea,the cheesesteak. But the people were all cool, and there's Yingling)
Baltimore, Maryland (whichever genius re-did the whole Camden Yard thing, with the stadium & ballpark on the water is a GENUIS)


Hated (ok, not hated, but least loved) Cities:
Paris, France (not too bad, but really too overrated, southern belgium is better, and they speak french too.)
Boston, Massachusetts (A city with THAT many cars and no decent roads, parking, or an understanding of the turn signal? C'mon!)
New York City (cause it really is that bad)
Tiajuanna, Mexico (Nothing more pathetic than some street hawker telling me how his 12 year old sister is stripping inside)
Kennilworth, New Jersey (if you've ever been, you get the "petrochemical" joke from Miss Congeniality)
Columbus, Ohio (I was there when OSU was out of school, but damn flat and boring.)

Love--
New Orleans, LA
Eugene, OR
Savannah, GA

Hated--
Memphis, TN
Chicago, IL

sigh-- There are so many places I want to travel to.It's ok though I'm still young..