OT: best city

nolaegghead

@SGH - I'm 89.25, yep, and white as a ghost.  (computer programmer tan).

henapple

I've seen your 80's atari shirt....definitely not a slave to fashion. \:D/

SGH

@nolaegghead‌
You are still whiter than I am.

nolaegghead

I am so white I hate myself.  But I have a soft buttery center.

SGH

I'm going to start calling you brother White hence forth.

nolaegghead

I like that.  Capitalize the "Brother" part too. 

Brother White.

Yeah.

I'm dark inside.  Very dark. 

shtgunal3

My neck is a little red but I'm as white as a saltine cracker everywhere else.

shtgunal3

But I'm not old.

nolaegghead

How old is not old?  I'm turning fifty this week, but I still feel like I'm 15.  Unless I move.

caliking

@nolaegghead‌ - I, for one, appreciate the scientific pragmatism.

shtgunal3

nolaegghead said:

How old is not old?  I'm turning fifty this week, but I still feel like I'm 15.  Unless I move.

I'll be 39 in December but I act like I'm 15.

shtgunal3

And btw happy 5-0

nolaegghead

@caliking - thanks cali - you're an intelligent and outstanding human.  I would think that even if you did not appreciate the scientific pragmatism.

SGH

@nolaegghead‌
I feel your pain Brother White. I hurt all over and can't hardly move. Just a few years ago I was a heck of a man and tough as nails. I guess there is no beating Father Time. He ultimately beats even the very best. Hey I gave him a good fight though!!

nolaegghead

We drunkenly biked to and from the Gretna fest the last two nights.  10 years ago I wouldn't have noticed the next day, but I woke up today like the tin man sans oil.

SMITTYtheSMOKER

Domestic- I agree on NYC, lucky to have worked in the city for 6 years.  San Francisco is my second best.

International- Florence, my all-time favorite, I've visited a half dozen times and can't wait to go back.  Lisbon a close second.

stemc33

Thank you @SMITTYtheSMOKER‌ for gettimg the thread back on topic. Never been to NYC. Don't think I'm missing out on much, but I do want to see some of the country areas in the NE. Especially in the fall.

JohnInCarolina

tarheelmatt said:

@JohnInCarolina‌, got to be the OBX!

I love the Outer Banks, but I don't view that area as a "city".  It's more like a destination.  

JRWhitee

There can only be one brother White! [-X

SGH

You make a valid point my friend!!

Phatchris

For cities Boston, NYC and New Orleans are my favorites.... For places my current favorites are Aspen/Snowmass and the Cayman Islands.

fishlessman

bostons not bad if im viewing it from offshore from my boat
) i live 20 minutes from it and in the last 15 or so years i think ive been there once...to register my 4 wheeler
) i like the airport in salt lake city as well, they have polygamy porter

JRWhitee

I tend to pick my best cities by their restaurants so...Chicago, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans.

YEMTrey

My fav's: Chicago, Boston, couple places in Florida.

Chicago for the food, Boston for the history, scenery and Universities, and Florida, well just because.

Been to NYC, SF, LA, etc.  Just didn't enjoy any of them.  I enjoyed everything north of SF, but not the city itself. IDK.

Foghorn

"I enjoyed everything north of SF, but not the city itself. IDK."

This.

Although I am going there (for about the 10th time) for work later this month and I will (again) go with an open mind figuring that I'm just missing something.

johnkitchens

I enjoyed San Francisco, but I didn't have much time. I wanted to tour Alcatraz, but I found out the hard way that you have to get tickets a week or so in advance or they would be sold out. 

We did however make it to Muir Woods and Napa Valley. That was a lot of fun. 

I also really enjoyed Boston. 

Acn

In terms of major cities, I probably like NYC, New Orleans and DC the best.  

If we're talking small/smaller cities, I'd put Charleston, SC, Asheville, NC, Portland, ME all rank highly.

I'll be making my first trips to Austin, TX (for work) and Nashville, TN (family vacation) this month, so if we were to do this exercise again later, they may show up as well.

fishlessman

Acn said:

In terms of major cities, I probably like NYC, New Orleans and DC the best.  

If we're talking small/smaller cities, I'd put Charleston, SC, Asheville, NC, Portland, ME all rank highly.

I'll be making my first trips to Austin, TX (for work) and Nashville, TN (family vacation) this month, so if we were to do this exercise again later, they may show up as well.

i could drink all week in the old port, oh wait, i have

Acn

fishlessman said:

Acn said:

In terms of major cities, I probably like NYC, New Orleans and DC the best.  

If we're talking small/smaller cities, I'd put Charleston, SC, Asheville, NC, Portland, ME all rank highly.

I'll be making my first trips to Austin, TX (for work) and Nashville, TN (family vacation) this month, so if we were to do this exercise again later, they may show up as well.

i could drink all week in the old port, oh wait, i have


I went to college in Orono, I have done that many times myself. Orono is great, Portland isn't too far and when you were under-21 you could get to Montreal in around 4 hours, and in those days, take advantage of a very favorable exchange rate.

fishlessman

@ Acn
i used to stay on the beach in biddeford for a few weeks every summer and the old port side every weekend when i was there. kinda wonder what its like now, i drive that way to camp every weekend and theres always a drug stop with someone wiretied on the side of the highway and the white van with the guys wearing hazmat type suites going thru the car just about every trip north. i figure one of these days ill get stopped because im in the lawrence ma side of the drug trafficking all week long
) i could easily retire in portland