Mise
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Looks like a prison.
Favorite of the EU 25 largest cities
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Ingvina Freyr
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It was originally meant to be yellow/golden.
Yared
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What about Drottningholm's Castle? Where the royal family actually stay:
What a surprise, Amsterdam's the runner up... 
warpus
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I've only been to Prague and Warsaw, and I was too young to really remember anything from my time in Prague, so I gotta vote Warsaw. Then again, if I were to vote on a city outside of the ones I've visited, Berlin might get my vote. A couple of my friends have been there, one MOVED there after visiting a couple times.. It's supposed to be an awesome place
JohnRM
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I've never been to Europe, but if I were to go, Rome is first on the list.
What a surprise, Amsterdam's the runner up...
Is Amsterdam stereotyped as "that city rich American brats that don't know any better go to to smoke pot?" Is it generally looked upon with sort of disdain for its touristy-ness? I want to hear more European trash talk about each others cities!!
Nicol.Bolas
King
i voted prague because thats where I live.
its cool to live in one of the largest and richest cities
its cool to live in one of the largest and richest cities
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
Certainly not Aberdeen
madviking
north american scum
Or Melbourne.
Mango Elephant
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I've been told that Prague has the worst taxi drivers in the whole universe. 
Lillefix
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I've been told that Prague has the worst taxi drivers in the whole universe.
Yeah, I remember Winner complaining about them. Anyway, it looks incredibly beautiful. Too bad it has such an ugly name. Sounds like a disease.
Ingvina Freyr
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No worse than Budapest, which btw I've heard is a beautiful city.
Mango Elephant
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Budapest sounds like an annoying Indian spiritual leader. It's cute.
There should really be an Indian spiritual leader called 'Pest', there's already the Buddha.
GinandTonic
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London born and bred.
London and Paris are good for each other in a competitive-brothers way. Regents Park gets built, half Paris is torn down to create a similar effect, but on a far grander scale. The underground gets built and the Metro is built with all the lessons learnt as to what not to do. Paris gets the bikes and London has to do the same, but with GPS chips so they dont get nicked. London has been so slack with Thameslink and Crossrail that we are having the chance to learn from the lessons of the RER that was France's reaction to those plans
Paris seems to be a vaguely planned city with a population that not only hold that planning in contempt but resent it. London just kind of happened, but (excepting south London) people just about co-operate on a make-do-and-mend project of organising the carnage.
On the plus side when bombs, blizzards or strikes cause what the papers call chaos the experience of living in central London is completely unchanged.
As a kid I thought it was cool in a gothic way.
Amsterdam is very cool. Sure it's got the touristy pot 'n' hookers thing, but every big city has tourist traps that play to the punters expectations.
London and Paris are good for each other in a competitive-brothers way. Regents Park gets built, half Paris is torn down to create a similar effect, but on a far grander scale. The underground gets built and the Metro is built with all the lessons learnt as to what not to do. Paris gets the bikes and London has to do the same, but with GPS chips so they dont get nicked. London has been so slack with Thameslink and Crossrail that we are having the chance to learn from the lessons of the RER that was France's reaction to those plans
Sounds positively weird to me. Regarding organisation, in my experience London is an utter mess compared to Paris. Language barriers?
Paris seems to be a vaguely planned city with a population that not only hold that planning in contempt but resent it. London just kind of happened, but (excepting south London) people just about co-operate on a make-do-and-mend project of organising the carnage.
On the plus side when bombs, blizzards or strikes cause what the papers call chaos the experience of living in central London is completely unchanged.
As a kid I thought it was cool in a gothic way.
Is Amsterdam stereotyped as "that city rich American brats that don't know any better go to to smoke pot?" Is it generally looked upon with sort of disdain for its touristy-ness? I want to hear more European trash talk about each others cities!!
Amsterdam is very cool. Sure it's got the touristy pot 'n' hookers thing, but every big city has tourist traps that play to the punters expectations.
Russian drivers specifically.I've been told that Prague has the worst taxi drivers in the whole universe.
Nicol.Bolas
King
yeah about taxi drivers: I will be honest with you: they really do try to cheat.
no year passes by without somehow trying to solve this (certifications, machines etc.),
but they still don't want to accept their new role (during communism regime, taxi drivers were somehow very rich, important people to know and who could get you any shortage goods for a bribe)
no year passes by without somehow trying to solve this (certifications, machines etc.),
but they still don't want to accept their new role (during communism regime, taxi drivers were somehow very rich, important people to know and who could get you any shortage goods for a bribe)
It's more known as a place where people go to smoke pot. I don't got any specific tourist label on it. Paris, Prague and Rome are more of those tourist places, and not only American but European too. "We had a romantic week in Paris", "I lived a month in Prague and wrote poetry in cheap notebooks"...
onedreamer
Dragon
Turin and its metropolitan area is by far the best place to live I have visited (which means I miss about half the places in the poll).
