Recommend me a US city

[5thHorseman]

I changed my mind people. I'm not going next year. I'm going this month.

I booked my flights to NYC for 2 weeks time. Woop.

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New Orleans, Louisiana

http://www.nola.gov/en/VISITORS/

The city is named after Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France, and is well known for its distinct French Creole architecture, as well as its cross cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is also famous for its cuisine, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is often referred to as the "most unique" in America.

A 2009 Travel + Leisure poll of "America's Favorite Cities" ranked New Orleans first in ten categories, the most first-place rankings of the 30 cities included. According to the poll, New Orleans is the best U.S. city as a spring break destination and for "wild weekends," stylish boutique hotels, cocktail hours, singles/bar scenes, live music/conerts and bands, antique and vintage shops, cafés/coffee bars, neighborhood restaurants, and people watching. The city also ranked second for gay friendliness, friendliness in general, bed and bath hotels and inns, and ethnic food.

[thesummerqueen]

D.C. is known for it's abundance of nice people?

I've heard good things about Boston, but have never been.

Coming in late...not paying attention to half the thread...

Are you comparing DC to other cities? Bar-hopping-wise, the bars in DC are better (for an obvious reason) but the people are friendlier down here, no joke.

On the other hand, if you want a story to tell, nothing beats taking the DC metro on a party weekend or night. Shamrockfest kicked absolute ass, and someone crowd-surfed UP the freakin escalator.

I left the Northern VA area because too many of those people work in DC and have shitty attitudes. It's stressful. But if you're just going there to party for a couple days, have the fuck at it - nothing beats the nation's capital for weird.

Also, there have been articles recently about women complaining that the ratio for men to women is really bad - as in there are far too few men. Stick an Englishman in that area and you're bound to strike gold no matter where you poke.

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Was hoping to change your mind about coming visit some southern cities.

The cities themselves up in the Northeast and the Ohio Valley region are beautiful, and huge. Lot's of things to do.

But as far as the people, most Southern cities got that beat. Depends on where you go though.

New Orleans is a prime example of a city with lots of Southern hospitality. People here are laid back, strangers will say "hey, how are you?!" and smile and just walk by. In cities such as Boston, New York and D.C. it's hard to find many people like this. It seems most people just stare at their shoes, and don't dare make eye contact with a stranger.

It just depends where you go. Remember, not all cities are the same, and not all people are the same.

[thesummerqueen]

That's one of the biggest things I noticed, moving from DC area to Charlotte, Loading. Eye contact. People down here will chat you up for no reason other than the sky is blue. They're real friendly.

Problem is, you get used to it and you go north and people think it's nosy or flirtatious. >_>

I always recommend any one of you come visit me. It's still quite nice here, but after a time you'll want to wait until spring again. Our springs are fantastic.