Confessions of a YYC Travel Junkie

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

25 on the list for me.
I'm surprised how high most of you are, I thought I was pretty well traveled; guess not.

28 for myself (not counting airport transfers for Santiago, Dallas, Houston).
42 for my wife.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

25 on the list for me.
I'm surprised how high most of you are, I thought I was pretty well traveled; guess not.

It could be the first documented case of someone exaggerating or lying on the internet.


In other news, they announced on my flight to stay seated so those with connections could deplane first. It was completely ignored and the lady next to me was pissed. I felt kinda bad. Let her off before me but I’m not sure getting ahead of one person helped. People can be such aholes.

[Fuzz]

At least 28 of the 100 are American cities. I'd like to know what this list is of. Places someone else has been? Weird choices like Baltimore, but not like, Saigon, or Karachi?

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

At least 28 of the 100 are American cities. I'd like to know what this list is of. Places someone else has been? Weird choices like Baltimore, but not like, Saigon, or Karachi?

Yeah, zero cities in Africa, huge US overrepresentation, Edmonton. Lots of weird choices there.

[topfiverecords]

Has to have been created by someone from Edmonton. That’s the only reason I can think of for it to be on the list. It’s even in the 80s.

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

At least 28 of the 100 are American cities. I'd like to know what this list is of. Places someone else has been? Weird choices like Baltimore, but not like, Saigon, or Karachi?

Just a random list I saw on Twitter — thought it would be would be fun to throw in here as I know some folks are pretty well travelled. Some of the comments note the lack of cities in Africa and other points raised.

[Fuzz]

I get it is just a Twitter find, I'm curious how the cities were chosen.

[CaptainYooh]

51

[cmyden]

Googling for "86. Edmonton" shows it to be this list:

https://www.atlasandboots.com/remote...world-ranking/

[Bigtime]

Sunwing has just gone and cancelled ALL their Saskatoon and Regina flights up to February 3rd.

[getbak]

I did some reverse image searching and it appears that list is from this site: https://www.worldsbestcities.com/ran...s-best-cities/

Although, the list posted is last year's list and not the current one. This year's list corrects the big mistake of putting Edmonton on a list of the best cities in the world. It also removes all the Russian cities.

The rankings are based on six categories: https://www.worldsbestcities.com/methodology/ -- It's not the 100 best places to visit or the 100 best places to live but sort of a catch-all.


The company that put this together is based in Vancouver and seems to be some sort of marketing business in general. That's probably why Canada ranks so high and Africa is not present.

The list also only includes cities over 1 million in population, so the San Jose listed is the one in California not Costa Rica.


Here's the list for 2023...

Spoiler!

WORLD’S BEST CITIES

1. LONDON
2. PARIS
3. NEW-YORK
4. TOKYO
5. DUBAI
6. BARCELONA
7. ROME
8. MADRID
9. SINGAPORE
10. AMSTERDAM
11. PRAGUE
12. LOS-ANGELES
13. CHICAGO
14. SAN-FRANCISCO
15. BERLIN
16. HONG-KONG
17. WASHINGTON
18. BEIJING
19. DUBLIN
20. ISTANBUL
21. LAS-VEGAS
22. MILAN
23. BUDAPEST
24. TORONTO
25. SYDNEY
26. SEOUL
27. DOHA
28. ABU-DHABI
29. OSAKA
30. BANGKOK
31. VIENNA
32. SAN-DIEGO
33. SAO-PAULO
34. MELBOURNE
35. ZURICH
36. BOSTON
37. LISBON
38. WARSAW
39. SEATTLE
40. ORLANDO
41. MUNICH
42. HOUSTON
43. AUSTIN
44. BUENOS-AIRES
45. NAPLES
46. COPENHAGEN
47. DALLAS
48. HELSINKI
49. FRANKFURT
50. ATLANTA
51. STOCKHOLM
52. MIAMI
53. ATHENS
54. RIO-DE-JANEIRO
55. HAMBURG
56. DENVER
57. MONTREAL
58. BRUSSELS
59. TEL-AVIV
60. OSLO
61. TAIPEI
62. VALENCIA
63. MINNEAPOLIS
64. PHILADELPHIA
65. CALGARY
66. PORTLAND
67. NASHVILLE
68. AUCKLAND
69. VANCOUVER
70. SANTIAGO
71. MEXICO-CITY
72. MUMBAI
73. SHANGHAI
74. SAN-JOSE
75. LYON
76. BILBAO
77. LIVERPOOL
78. NEW-ORLEANS
79. BRISBANE
80. MANCHESTER
81. FUKUOKA
82. SEVILLE
83. RIYADH
84. JERUSALEM
85. NANJING
86. MINSK
87. SALT-LAKE-CITY
88. PHOENIX
89. JAKARTA
90. GOTEBORG
91. PERTH
92. GLASGOW
93. NAGOYA
94. BALTIMORE
95. STUTTGART
96. OTTAWA
97. HANOI
98. SENDAI
99. COLOGNE
100. MARSEILLE

[Fuzz]

42 on this new list.

[cam_wmh]

34 for me. Should’ve counted SJ twice

[Acey]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Sunwing has just gone and cancelled ALL their Saskatoon and Regina flights up to February 3rd.

They realized how insanely expensive it has been to operate the rescue flights this week and are finally trimming the schedule to something they can actually operate.

[blankall]

My flight out of Newark, on my return from Johannesburg, was cancelled....twice. Not a fun experience. I took once day to go see Avatar 2 during that delay, but a lot of the rest of the time was spent in the airport.

Also United Airlines is a gong show....they wouldn't book me on any flights where any leg of the flight was any higher than Economy class. I waited in line 2+ hours multiple times to speak with agents in person, but they had no power, and I then had to wait many hours to call into their phone customer service.

Top it all off, they misrouted my luggage, fortunately YVR baggage services is awesome. They found my luggage and delivered it to my home the next day.

[sleepingmoose]

47 on the updated list.

[looooob]

45 plus 4 airport/train station only


Do well in NA, pretty well in Europe and strike out everywhere else which is a blind spot I hope to remedy some day (but those plans have been pushed back a few times now for sure)


went through this with my 19 year old as she got ready to fly back so school- she's at 20, which I'd guess is more than I would have had at that age- although maybe close we had done one European Vacation style driving tour before I was that age

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

37+4 for me on the new list.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

11 for me. 2 that I connected through their airports. 2 more with the same name (I doubt they mean London, ON, or Sydney, NS).

[getbak]

Even though some of the cities changed, my count didn't.

• 31 + 1 airport only on last year's list.
• 31 + 1 airport only on this year's list.