This is a response to bernhardts post, where someone claimed Helsinki is the best. Now, I've slowly realized, with time, that people don't like what I like.
I like cheap living with a lot of parties and hot chicks, a nice climate, and the possibility to live close to all the fun, preferably within walking distance.
I opt for Sydney being the worlds BEST city to live in, this is, without having been to helsinki, but if helsinki beats sydney on the points my review will cover, I'd be highly interested in going there.
1:st off, it has the city tower
Back in the day, at least in sweden, to go from a "town" to a "City" you had to buy your rights from the state, and that makes the difference today from a city and a town in sweden. (at least this is what my teacher told me in 4rth grade)
In other places, you have to have your own chruch to be called a city or whatever.
The global definition however, is that if you have built the city tower, you are now a city. It serves as a solid landmark in most cities, where "towards the tower" is often towards the fun. A few examples:
Ackland (second favourite city)
Toronto (don't fucking go there)
Here's the tower in sweden, gothenburn, taken by a hobby camera
What most people doesn't realize is that the tower is actually the SAME tower everywhere. By salvaging alien technology a building company, whose name of course is classified, reverse engineered wormhole gadgets and dimensional science, in order to instead of building the same tower over and over again, made the genious move to actually just build one tower, adding illusionary superficial differances to the exterior design, sometimes just as simple as different lights, and made sure, once you entered, you entered a dimension that is specific for your location.
Later they realized that the last part was entirely redundant. Only turists ever visit the tower anyhow, so there's no suspicion ANYWAY from seeing the entire tower filled up with japanese, for example in toronto.
Also, it costs about 20 bucks to go up and have a look around in every city, and it's common practise for tourists to visit the same tower over, and over, and over again, but in different cities. It's brilliant.
This, today, is the modern definition of a city. If it has the city tower, it's a city. It connects us to the global community to have this one thing in common. So for example, for helsinki to enter in the contest, you need a tower.
Also, I've personally named the tower "Nils", a swedish name, but it has rather unimaginative names in the rest of the world, such as "sky tower" in auckland for example. I always say Hi to Nils when I drop by.
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Second, party.
Now this is the VERY ESSENCE of a city.
Cities differ from more rural areas by commonly having a higher density of people. If you like to be alone, you go to the country, if you like people, you go to the city. And where they generally cram the MOST people into the same are is generally, (not in any specific order):
1: Airplanes
2: Concentration camps
3: Slave transport ships
4: Nightclubs
Of all of these, only the nightclub is meant to be fun for the person being crowded in. So to get the VERY VERY most out of a city, you need to experience the night life.
Make a good friend for the night, and never see him again in your whole life.
This abundance of people let's you truly not care what people think of you, whereas in a village, if you do something stupid, you will never ever hear the end of it, since the mayor actually even wrote it down in the village history collection.
In a city however, you are free to do something stupid.
Which bring us to the 3rd point.
If you're actually FREE to do something stupid. Or does it cost money. Does it cost 40 euro to get in to the common nightclub? Nooooooooooo way.
Is it free of charge prior to 23:00?
Can you sign up on the guest list to get in for free?
Is it maby just plainly free of charge the whole night?
Plainly, is there a possibility, to every night, somehow, sneak your ass into a nightclub, and not pay for it. This is also a DEMAND for the city to enter into the evaluation.
For a city to enter into even a remotely high score, there needs to be GOOD PARTY, defined as, good party on
tuesdays and
sundays. If there's good party on those days, the rest of the week is generally fine. So you ask a resident:
"Hows the nightlife in your city?"
"Oh it's awesome!!" (yea right)
"So, how's the nightlife on, say, a sunday night?"
"...er"
4rth is the quality of the nightclubs, or nightlife. Oslo's nightclubs suck, but the nightlife is OK.
Generally, it has to have nightclubs that are big enough so you can be a jackass in one corner of the club, and still Mr Cool in the other corner. The alternative is to have smaller nightclubs, but free of charge around the clock, so you can be a jackass in one club, and Mr Cool in the other.
5th is lovezones. Public restrooms, dark spots, parks with a lot of bushes, graveyards and churches, sneaky places by the harbour. The logistics has to be alright.
6 public transportation, so if you actually get bored in the center you can go exploring. It needs to be cheap, but foremost, go around the clock. (so if you exit the club at 5 in the morning, you don't have to sit around til fucking 8 to get back home)
7th place: cheapness of food and living. (especially the cheapness of HEALTHY foods)
8 The general mood, the people, what sights to see, activities and things like this. For instance, australia has some of the rudest people on this earth. They're really stuck up and tries to be all macho and show who's the boss all the fucking time. It's unnerving as hell, but I still think sydney is the coolest place, followed by Auckland - where they have the most chill people ever - but the party here is less varied, but still free.
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