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over-rated
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Add my city, Cerritos, CA, to the list. Don't bother coming here unless you want to see a truly modern 3-story family library with an excellent children's section, a reknown performing arts center and a truly diversified community of 51,000 people living in a great suburb of southeastern Los Angeles county where the average house now sells for over $700,000. If you do come, you can always book a room at our 203-room Sheraton, but don't tell them srk123 sent you.
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I was once passing through Cerritos... and I just kept going, and going and going...
Yes, the performing arts center there is really, REALLY REALLY nice... but I don't think i would go out of my way to see your 3 story library... |
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Los Angeles. I don't see ANYTHING great about it. Las Vegas. Noisy, smelly, drunk, and uncivilized. I feel sorry for all the decent people that come to the city. I'll have to think about Paris. |
Atlanta
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Salt Lake City too.
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I find most of the "cities of the future" to be absolute let downs, Dubai, Singapore and Shanghai top the list. Yes these cities often have great air connections, yes they have some great hotels, and yes they have lots of sexy new infrastructure and shopping malls, however the are generally devoid of any character whatsoever (and kep in mind that I have been to all of them more than a dozen times!).
As for Vegas, I would say that it is one of the cities that actually lives up to its billing. It is overbuilt, disgusting, brash, tacky and filled with idiots, however that is just what most people expect to encounter there. |
I think Lubbock, Tx is the most overrated cities there is in the world. There nightlife, shopping and museums are not what i expected it to be.
Originally Posted by Internaut
I would have to defend Sydney. I've just spent six days there and didn't even scratch the surface of what you can find to do there (and I didn't even find the time to get out to the Blue Mountains). Sydney is definitely a tourist trap but the planners seemed to have gone out of the way to make all the attractions that bit more accessible than any other city I've been to.
Also, if you drop your guide book, take a wonder and just pop into the first restaurant you fancy (preferably off the beaten track) you can eat very well without spending the earth. Oddly enough though, having done both Auckland and Sydney in the past couple of weeks, I actually prefer Auckland as a place to chill out for it's people and generally pleasant vibe (perhaps this is one of world's more underrated cities)? |
Originally Posted by CApreppie
San Jose, but it was never overrated in the first place.
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Originally Posted by ILuvParis
En ingles, por favor. AND, CA or Costa Rica?
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Yeah, I love that kind of vagueness...
Reminds me of the story of the guy that called United, and asked for a ticket from Melbourne to Oakland... he meant Melbourne Australia to Oakland California... but the United agent thought he MEANT Melbourne Florida to "Auckland" New Zealand... And there is a true story of someone who boarded a flight to Auckland, that thought it was to Oakland... oh dear. And someone on this board recently posted something about "LA"... don't know if he meant Los Angeles, Louisiana, Lan Chile Airlines, or something else... |
Santa Barbara, CA.
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Originally Posted by ButIsItArt
I have spoken to a number of people who have been to Shanghai on business, and they describe it as a soulless, sterile megalopolis, "a machine for business and finance," as one has put it. And I can certainly sympathize with that perspective.
But my experience has been completely different: my s/o is a Shanghai native, and an expert in modern Chinese history and literature. The Shanghai she has shown me is one of breathtaking architectural diversity, great cultural and literary traditions, and high social cultivation during many crucial periods of history. I read two books about Shanghai before I visited, so I had a pretty good historical understanding of the city. But what I saw in my three-day visit matches the "souless, etc." perspective you describe. The city just doesn't seem to have any charm. My then 16-year-old son remarked, "It reminds me of Pittsburgh." |
Originally Posted by Chapel Hill Guy
My then 16-year-old son remarked, "It reminds me of Pittsburgh."
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