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Cities


What makes a city good? Bad?

It’s mostly just personal opinion. Yet when you ask people why they like or dislike somewhere, the answers they give are often half-formed and incomplete. They haven’t thought deeply about the why.

This is my fun attempt at thinking a little more about the why. My hope is that you find this useful as you decide where to travel next.

Note: This list does not include places you would obviously not want to travel to (like Akron, Ohio, or Burns, Oregon).

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+ Why I love Florianópolis
+ Why I love Madrid 
+ Why I love Salamanca
+ Why I love El Chaltén

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+ Why I like Paris
+ Why I like Tbilisi
+ Why I like Buenos Aires
+ Why I like Cádiz
+ Why I like Mexico City
+ Why I like Belo Horizonte
+ Why I like Split
+ Why I like Vancouver
+ Why I like Bariloche
+ Why I like Grindelwald

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+ Why I don’t like Lisbon
+ Why I don’t like Barcelona
 + Why I don’t like Geneva
+ Why I don’t like Zurich

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I also created a list of each of the cities named above ranked by relative amount of tourism they receive each year.

Click here to check it out.