Best City in America

irishmufc wrote: SuperDave84 wrote: Africa?! All of it?! Jaysus, Muff. Now, I've never been, but you shouldn't let the fact there is violence in parts of it at the minute put you off the whole place. If Americans all had an attitude like that, they'd never visit Northern Ireland. Morocco, Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, and plenty more besides.... there's loads of great places, or at the very least potentially great places.   It's nothing to do with violence. Where did you get that idea?   There isn't a country in Africa that I have any interest in going to just like there isn't in Central/South America.

I didn't know what the reason was. I was guessing that it wasn't flight distance (Australia, maybe even South America) but I couldn't see any obvious reason why you wouldn't want to go to at least one of them in Africa. There are loads, and such a variety. The plains of the Serengeti and the wildlife there, safaris in the Gambia, Table Mountain and Cape Town in South Africa, the pyramids and the Great Sphinx in Egypt, the history in Tunisia and Morocco.... and that's only off the top of my head. I just don't see how you can write off a whole continent. North Africa is pretty close and as easy to get to as most of Europe, with direct Ryanair flights to Morocco.

I think it's very short sighted to write off a whole continent, is all.


Edited by SuperDave84 - 07 Dec 2016 at 4:14pm

You would have no interest in visiting the Amazon jungle (without a shadow of a doubt the most amazing place I have ever been in my life)? The salt flats or 'death road' in Bolivia? Lake Titicaca or Machu Picchu in Peru (if only for the name...)? Chile's Atacama desert or Andes mountain range? The Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador? Patagonia in Southern Argentina? That's before you even get in to amazing cities like Buenos Aires or Rio.

Devrozex wrote: You would have no interest in visiting the Amazon jungle (without a shadow of a doubt the most amazing place I have ever been in my life)? The salt flats or 'death road' in Bolivia? Lake Titicaca or Machu Picchu in Peru (if only for the name...)? Chile's Atacama desert or Andes mountain range? The Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador? Patagonia in Southern Argentina? That's before you even get in to amazing cities like Buenos Aires or Rio. I mean, fair enough if the answer is 'no' to all of the above, but it is a simply beautiful and unique part of the earth.

Devrozex wrote: You would have no interest in visiting the Amazon jungle (without a shadow of a doubt the most amazing place I have ever been in my life)? The salt flats or 'death road' in Bolivia? Lake Titicaca or Machu Picchu in Peru (if only for the name...)? Chile's Atacama desert or Andes mountain range? The Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador? Patagonia in Southern Argentina? That's before you even get in to amazing cities like Buenos Aires or Rio. I mean, fair enough if the answer is 'no' to all of the above, but it is a simply beautiful and unique part of the earth.

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irishmufc wrote: rolo wrote: Devrozex wrote: You would have no interest in visiting the Amazon jungle (without a shadow of a doubt the most amazing place I have ever been in my life)? The salt flats or 'death road' in Bolivia? Lake Titicaca or Machu Picchu in Peru (if only for the name...)? Chile's Atacama desert or Andes mountain range? The Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador? Patagonia in Southern Argentina? That's before you even get in to amazing cities like Buenos Aires or Rio. I mean, fair enough if the answer is 'no' to all of the above, but it is a simply beautiful and unique part of the earth. Add to the list of places which have no appeal to muff: Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and so on and so forth. Not easily impressed!   Rolo there's other places I'd rather go to. All those countries have spectacular wildlife/scenery etc etc but it's not enough for me to want to go there where there's other places I'd rather go to.

irishmufc wrote:   If I was there or Ireland were playing in some future tournament there, then I'd go and see the main sights I suppose. The nature/wildlife would definitely appeal to me more. As for being open minded, I'm aware of all of the things that were listed as worth seeing but again, it's not enough for me to want to plan a trip there.   There's countries I've gone to that I wouldn't have even thought about only for that Ireland were playing there and I'd rather go on trips like that. Would love to go back to the States and stay in the National parks but I'm usually tied up with the football trips as that's my preference at the moment.

rolo wrote: Feel partly responsible for CM starting this thread. I should just have replied to his post before now. To answer your question, cities I'd put ahead of New York: In no particular order: Portland, Oregon  San Diego, CA  Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Las Vegas, NV Spent a total of ten months living and working in the first three places, and have visited the last two a number of times each while there. No better way to get to know a place than working there, you get to see more of the place than just the city centre, and you get a feel for the way of life there. Much as I love all of the above, none compare with Buenos Aires, Argentina. Spent a brilliant month there. Muff's ignorance above is a pity, thought you'd be more open-minded than that. Important to point out too that much and all as cities are fantastic, my favourite places in Central, South and North America werent cities, but the places way outside of the urban areas.  How anyone could have no interest in visiting Maccu Picchu in Peru, or Semuc Champey in Guatemala, I have no idea.  If that's a considered opinion fair enough, if it's just ignorance, then I can't understand it.

Yep you got that one right , but hey it got a bit of interest going on and Muff acting a tad foolish 

Claret Murph wrote: rolo wrote: Feel partly responsible for CM starting this thread. I should just have replied to his post before now. To answer your question, cities I'd put ahead of New York: In no particular order: Portland, Oregon  San Diego, CA  Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Las Vegas, NV Spent a total of ten months living and working in the first three places, and have visited the last two a number of times each while there. No better way to get to know a place than working there, you get to see more of the place than just the city centre, and you get a feel for the way of life there. Much as I love all of the above, none compare with Buenos Aires, Argentina. Spent a brilliant month there. Muff's ignorance above is a pity, thought you'd be more open-minded than that. Important to point out too that much and all as cities are fantastic, my favourite places in Central, South and North America werent cities, but the places way outside of the urban areas.  How anyone could have no interest in visiting Maccu Picchu in Peru, or Semuc Champey in Guatemala, I have no idea.  If that's a considered opinion fair enough, if it's just ignorance, then I can't understand it. Yep you got that one right , but hey it got a bit of interest going on and Muff acting a tad foolish

Hey Phileas Fogg, there's places I've no interest in going to and there's others I do. Big f**king deal