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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I think that Vancouver is a fantastic city—easily one of the best in NA, but it pales in comparison to New York and Chicago, and the great European cities Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, Istanbul, etc. Furthermore, I find both Vancouver and Seattle frequently to be emulations of one another on a few levels, and this in my mind detracts a little bit from the common claim about either of them being the "best city on the planet".
There is no shame in being a world class city, but from among the 30 or 40 or so, it is pretty difficult determining "greatness" from top to bottom.
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But to me, those comparisons don't make any sense. New York (plus all those other places) are special historical entities that arose, as if miraculously, through the social, and political currents of a great age.
That said, after having been to most of those cities on that list, I would not chose any of them over Vancouver.