What are famous cities around the world you don’t like but everyone does?
I have a few:
New York: I hate that place with a burning passion. I have been there in family trips since I was a kid and I never liked it. I don’t like the pollution, the crass commercialism, the amount of dog crap I have stepped on, and how crowded it is. The city has ugly scenery and the only 4 things I liked was the Natural History Museum, the Bronx Zoo, Met Art Museum, and the fact the city has no country themed radio because no one listens to that god horrid genre in that godforsaken city. The city is very gloomy so much it drives me crazy.
Paris: I don’t get the appeal to it either, just like NYC it is crowded with dog doo-doo and looks rather ugly with the gothic architecture. It is all rather gloomy to be in to be honest.
London: I don’t like the rain, the gray buildings, and the gloomy feeling of being there. Ugly scenery as well.
I can’t stand Los Angeles either, but I have to admit that’s because of LAX. LAX is a garbage tier airport and it taints my perception of the entire city.
I also hate music played by real live musicians using the full breadth of musical instrumentation, and lyrical stories sung without digital voice alteration.
I’ve found many popular big cities don’t live up to their hype, at least any more, and that’s often chalked up to the grinding effects of tourism. But NYC just seems to like itself the way it is, and LA is a sprawling mass of mismanaged municipalities.
I don’t like cities in general, the more people there are… the less I want to go there. My least favorite would be ones in the south though, Heat + too many people = hell on earth to me. I will say new york cities are a special kind of bad though, buffalo everyone is angry and crime is high and people get pi$$y with you for no reason.
My favorite city by comparison is Warroad Minnesota. It’s tiny tiny and right on the Canadian border. Gets tons of snow and people there are incredibly friendly, its a great town to live in if you like ice fishing and to be left alone lol.
as someone from Austin I can get on with this, Californians tend to be the most disliked. Not from the envy they believe everyone has for them, simply due to the sheer arrogance they have.
Don’t get me wrong I think the natural landscape of Colorado is nice but I think Denver is a bit meh. People have a strange obsession with it but for some reason can’t articulate or specify what makes Denver great. They just say its a great city but never explain why.
On the flip note I think Seattle is a very lovely city, especially with the rainy days. I don’t mind rainy days because I can listen to Jazz or Classical music on my Amazon Echo and relax on my couch. Seattle has nice scenery, tall mountains in the distance and evergreen forest in the background, nice retro-futuristic buildings and overall cleanliness, it’s a city made by God himself.
I might mention I grew up in a sleepy little town on the Big Island of Hawaii called Hilo. When I left in the early '90s, the population there was about 25,000.
Still, three decades later, I miss the rain so much. I miss the trade winds. I miss waking up and seeing snow halfway down Mauna Kea.
Don’t even get me started on the cesspool that is Hollywood. And by that I mean the literal city, not “Hollywood” as an entity. It’s one of the dirtiest, drug-ridden, disgusting cities here in Los Angeles.
When they show it to y’all on TV, they only show Hollywood and Highland, or a small bit of Vine, etc. You take a hundred steps in any direction, and it turns gross.
One time I was there some dude offered to sell me teeth. So, yeah. It’s disgusting.
(Now that I’m older and “wiser”, I get that he was probably offering to sell me a teenth (1/16 of an ounce) of something, but at the time, some grimy dude offering to sell me teeth freaked the hell outta me. I was glad for the bars on my windows that night.)
NYC: Dirty, crowded, ugly with just tall grey buildings all over, extremely rude people, subway smells like piss
LA: Nothing interesting at all there. Some parts are just downright dangerous and awful. Not sure why people enjoy going there, maybe just foreigners.
Rome: Full of pickpockets, plenty of old Roman stuff but to be honest, none of it is that interesting. Dirty as well.
Venice: Small, crowded, full of poop from dogs and birds, the smaller canals stink to high heaven, expensive. Nothing to like at all. Better to just watch on tv.
I used to think that place is nice, until looking back I think there are some less charming aspects of that place. I twice almost ran into that one strip club and a guy once urinated in public on the street. It wasn’t pleasant that I swear I would not go back to that city ever again.
I don’t like many parts of Los Angeles but if you go exploring and survive that, you can find some really cool hidden areas.
Never been to NYC though, not really interested. Too many people. I’d love to go to Greece and Italy.
When this virus stuff is finally over, I think I’ll just do that.
Don’t even get me started on the cesspool that is Hollywood. And by that I mean the literal city, not “Hollywood” as an entity. It’s one of the dirtiest, drug-ridden, disgusting cities here in Los Angeles.