Best American City: New York City Or Los Angeles?

San Francisco...JigglyWiggly_

I would never want to live in NYC, but you can't beat the nightlife and excitement, its truly one of a kind. Also the cuisine and history is unmatched, theres truly no place like NYC.
LA IMO is an overatted, its so dirty, polluted, spread out, and the people are steriotypically either super snobby or super ghetto.
San Diego>LA
San Diego has all the great things that LA has an the crap LA has misses them. It also has better mexican food an is right there with Mexico which can be fun going for a 15 minute drive to Tijuana. The nightlife isn't really as crazy and there arn't celebrities everywhere, but unless your going to the club to drop 10 grand you can't even hang in the famous trendy LA scene anyway.

Chicago is better than both of those citiesFUBAR24

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New York:

1. Financial captial of the world
2. Sports capital of the (at least) the US

black_chamber99

also add artistic and fashion capital of america/the world

Chicago owns them both.

Quite frankly both cities on the list tended to look filthy.

I agree with whoever mentioned San Diego as being the best. That or Santa Barbara north of Los Angeles. I had a wonderful time at both places.

i think kansas city MO is the best

I think I'd prefer NYC, but I don't think I'd enjoy either one of those cities all that much.

I like big cities, but I have my limits.

Rachel, Nevada. :D

Hahaha.

Go there.

Haven't been to either, but New York seems more similar to Toronto so i'l go with New York.

I have lived in Los Angeles for more than 10 years and I don't think it is that great. It has some nice areas like Santa Monica,Sawtelle, some parts of the Valley area, and West Hollywood. Other than that I can't think of many great parts. Most of Hollywood is a dump, the public transport system is pretty bad, and the city is too spread out for my tastes. I haven't been to tons of cities in the U.S, but to me Boston, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Raleigh, San Diego, and Minneapolis. I would like to see more of New York though. I found it a bit overwhelming the first time I went there. I don't tend to go for big cities like that, which is why I like San Francisco, and Boston. They are big, but they seem a bit more manageable. I would pick New York over Los Angeles if I had to.

Neither. Both of the cities are over-rated.

let's be honest here, these are the only two american cities that matter. so which one is better? which would you rather live in?

black_chamber99

Hmmmm...

I've lived in both LA and NYC. I hated living in LA, there are much better cities just in California. I quite enjoy New York City. But still, I would not call either the best American city.

They're both terrible cities.

Why else would Kurt Russell want to escape from both of them?

They're both terrible cities.

Why else would Kurt Russell want to escape from both of them?

MetroidPrimePwn

Best post ever.

New York City

Both New York and Los Angeles are putrid, IMO. I'd say Austin, TX is the best city that I've been to so far. It's not so big that it just sucks (like NY and LA), but it's big enough to have everything I need and want in a city. I hate cities in general.

NYC is the place to be.. greatest city in the world

New Orleans is the best American city.PoeticTheory

I have to go with Las Vegas or Denver.

I'm sorry but NYC and LA are just terrible places with crime problems,drug problems,gang problems and even traffic problems. I will never ever live in ether of those cities even i was making 100k a year, i would still not live there.

I've been to both, and can honestly say I wouldn't trade my hometown Baltimore for either 8)

Neither.

I have to go with Las Vegas

Ballroompirate

No...

Just no.

I've been to both, and can honestly say I wouldn't trade my hometown Baltimore for either 8)

FunkWeasel

lol..."the only two American cities that matter." I don't care at all about LA. NYC is highly interesting but not somewhere I'd ever want to be in for more than a week or two at a time. I'm all about Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, etc.t3hrubikscube

Wosrt two American cities that I am aware of besides Detroit. Neither.

Wosrt two American cities that I am aware of besides Detroit. Neither.

coolbeans90

Out of those two, NYC.

But there's way better in the country.

Discounting anywhere in Arkansas, those are two of my least favorite places in the world.

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I've been to both, and can honestly say I wouldn't trade my hometown Baltimore for either 8)

Engrish_Major

I purposely avoid passing through LA in my travels through CA. Hopefully I'll never have the displeasure of going there again.

New York City, I'd only want to live in either LA or NYC though in the states. I hate small cities. Toriko42

Trust me there are MUCH better cities to live in over here than LA or NYC, especially LA. San Diego is NOT a small city, its pretty big and it owns LA, the cuisine, the girls, the beaches are all better, also theres waaaaay less pollution and crime. Also its 15 minutes from tijuana which is baisically mexican vegas without giant casinos, well its waaay more wild than vegas, down there anything goes.

Thats just one example, I could name at least 20 US cities I would rather LIVE in than LA or NYC. I wouldn't wanna live in either personally. NYC is a different level man, I'm talkinbout non stop noise 24/7 in parts of the town thats pretty much unbearable and impossible to sleep thru unless you were born an raised there.

And LA just sucks.

[QUOTE="Toriko42"]New York City, I'd only want to live in either LA or NYC though in the states. I hate small cities. BIG-BOSSMAN

Trust me there are MUCH better cities to live in over here than LA or NYC, especially LA. San Diego is NOT a small city, its pretty big and it owns LA, the cuisine, the girls, the beaches are all better, also theres waaaaay less pollution and crime. Also its 15 minutes from tijuana which is baisically mexican vegas without giant casinos, well its waaay more wild than vegas, down there anything goes.

Thats just one example, I could name at least 20 US cities I would rather LIVE in than LA or NYC. I wouldn't wanna live in either personally. NYC is a different level man, I'm talkinbout non stop noise 24/7 in parts of the town thats pretty much unbearable and impossible to sleep thru unless you were born an raised there.

And LA just sucks.

neither nyc is alright but both have nothing on Chicago and Columbus.

imo of course

I've never been to New York City, so I can't comment on it.

But I live 15 miles east of Los Angeles, and it has its good and bad points. There are various attractions around the city. On the flipside, the bad points include ratholes like South Central LA and East LA-- absolutely full of graffiti, bars on windows, gangs, illegal immigrants, etc. etc. etc.

I'm biased since i live In New York, i can't honestly see myself living in another place