/lit/ - Literature

Paris, Prague, Venice maybe. Depends what you mean by 'like minded'.

>>10038788
Idk, I'm worried I'm gonna come off as a pretentious ass when I'm in San Diego, never felt this way about other cities I've been too. It seems like a giant frat house and has no real cultural value desu, cities that have that is what I mean. At least the women will be hot

>>10038788
>Paris
The only people you'll meet in Paris are niggers and dickheads.

Londonistan
Jew York City

>>10038782
>>10038794
I live in San Diego and I went to Berkeley for university. SoCal is better in every way imaginable than the Bay Area. If you really want to be near high culture, then you should be considering a move to NYC or London, not San Diego. Paris is not what it used to be.

>>10038782
New York City is the only correct answer, and even that scene is dying out.

>>10039150
Philly, DC, even Richmond are all preferable if one actually writes.

>>10039173
>DC

How is D.C. better? It is expensive and kinda stale, tbqh.

Unless you're into politics or fucking a politician.

>>10039173
>Philly
Hell yeah man. Tell me about Richmond though, I've never been

>>10038782
Lit cities in the 'New' world... Come to Europe my friend.

>>10039173
>Richmond
>As of the2010 United States Census, there were 204,214 people residing in the city. 50.6% wereBlack or African American, 40.8%White, 5.0%Asian

>>10039196
Nigga what. I mean tell me about the culture in Richmond

Ann Arbor Michigan

>>10038788
Paris
>spoiled french brats
>niggers literally everywhere
>muslim hoards

Prague
>poorass cheap makeup Czech whores everywhere
>British tourists and stud parties
>German bachelor parties

Venice
>literally going to die in the next ten years due to excessive tourism

>>10038782
Memphis is a great city to live in if you want to write about filth.

>>10039196
That keeps (you) on your toes. That's vitality, bitch.

>>10039584
cheap whores are /lit/ as fuck

>>10039594
They still blow up that giant Jack-o-Lantern on Mud Island every Fall? Memphis does have something. Beal St. used to be one of the grittiest tourist traps in the entire nation not too long ago, but haven't been in awhile.

>>10038788
>Venice
Unfortunately it's being ruined by shitty policies and excessive tourism.

>>10039173
>>10039184
where do /lit/erati gather in Philly?
there are some decent bookstores and the city definitely has culture but i cant say that ive met anyone who i would call a man of letters

I want to live in a sleepy little town in Japan populated by nice people.

Any recommendations?

>>10039184
City of birds, it's a cool place. VCU has one of the better fine art dept's in the country (was #1 for sculpture not too long ago) so that's a draw. Some good used bookshops and I've met plenty of legit readers. Bi-sects the route from Charlottesville to Williamsburg. Though more of it's ugly, enough of its quaint. I really liked living there.

>>10039176
Once dwelt in the Foggy Bottom environs while my sister moved from Park Slope to 8th and 52nd Mannahatta and I had a much better time doing my thing than she had doing hers. We'd visit back and forth and the better times were almost exclusively in the District.

>>10039772
Think they still do it. Beale is still a pretty gritty spot, downtown in general is getting better but still fairly dangerous.

>>10039817
Nice to see Richmond mentioned here. I attended VCU and received most of my education from the city. Not sure if I'd even be what I am now if not for my experiences there. Good, sincere people there and exceptional in comparison to what else you can find on the East Coast.

>>10039847
I live close to DC now and went there a few weeks ago but found it littered with licentiates and homeless people. Was I in the wrong area? If you give me somewhere to go, I'll check it out. Looking for inspirational people.

ITT: romanticizing

You'll be alone wherever you go.

Life isn't Midnight In Paris.

>>10038782
In the us at least you're probably better off in the college towns. Berkeleys too damn expensive and full of antifa trash and thought police but places like Austin or Charlottesville or Athens Georgia have arts scenes

Surprised noone's mentioned Saint Petersburg yet. Stayed over at a girl's house for a week on Nevsky Prospect just by the Palace square. The wealthy adolescent culture was the embodiment of /fa/ without all the useless crap. I've never felt so culturally content as when I stayed over at Nevsky.

>>10040827
I've been looking for a job there for a while and am hoping to find one by the end of the year. Not surprised that no one mentioned it here though, it's not casually brought up in pop culture like other places people associate with the arts.

>>10040845
You can easily find a low-end job at a kiosk or "Malenkij magasin". You know where they sell tobacco to basically anyone. Pretty sure at least half the guys at those stores were Uzbeks or some other immigrants.

Given that you know the language, it shouldn't be a burden to find a job.

Meme answers: Reykjavik, Saint Petersburg, Katmandu, Goa, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Tangier, Havanna, Tokyo, Damascus, Tel-Aviv, Dublin, Odessa, Florence, Muscat, Ürümqi, Bangkok, New Orleans, Portland the list could go on

Correct answer: New York

>>10040568
Fuck you, gonna watch that flick and fall asleep.

How is Seattle or Portland?

>ctrl-F Chicago
>0 results
Good.

Rural life is /lit/
City life is not

>>10040889
I'm flattered that you assume I know the language, but I don't. Because of that, I think the only thing I can do there is teach English and eventually something more interesting if I learn the language and want to live there for a while.

The cars and lights outside appear to be on the right point to melancholic full heart cuddle, but here I am watching pulp fiction scenes by own.
I wonder why is this happening, is it due to my lack of action towards girls in this city? of course, I'm sick of knowing that.. the problem is, since I've experienced the strongest love of my life in golden days that crushed me, I genuinely believe that I'll never be able to achieve that. Tho I'll never know if I try.
I will start a random girl that fits the minimum standards for a nice cuddle. Otherwise this year in college will be empty deep down

>>10040898
NY? Really? Isn't it full of pretentious SJW hipsters?

>>10039196
Living in Richmond unironically made me racist

>>10041140
this

>>10041118
trash

>>10039791
>a sleepy little town in Japan populated by nice people.
You're a gaijin so you'll never find that.

>>10039817
>>10039880
Seconding these anons. I'm attending UVA, but I wish VCU had the programs I want. Richmond is such a nice city, I love visiting

>>10041118
It's comfy rainy sort of hell. It would be fine if the people were different and the rent was less.

>>10038782
Ljubljana, Slovenia

>>10041784
Why not?

My experience: Practically all Eastern European capital cities, Nairobi, Dublin, Belfast, Vienna
People who answer memes like New York City, London, Paris, and the rest, probably only holidayed in these places for a week. All art is being hollowed out of these cities, sadly, only preexisting creations will remain, talent is going elsewhere.

>>10041811
I'm from London, btw.

>>10040898
>New York
If you make over 200k a year maybe. The New York has no art.

I'm building the next big literary circle in Knoxville, come if you want

new orleans
providence
montreal
portland (maine)
mexico city
lima
shanghai

>>10041843
My man, you here too?

>tfw Texan
>tfw our only major city that's even close to literary is Austin, and it's all just hippies and brats from California these days

I live in Dallas right now. It's actually pretty nice, and the culture scene isn't bad, but it sure isn't literary.

>>10041790
>>>10039817
>>>10039880
Can I ask what you all enjoyed so much about Richmond? I'm a current VCU student and have been finding the place hard to like..somewhat of a dirty city and busting at the seams from overcrowding.

>>10041799
I just told you. In Tokyo and bigger cities in Japan, they don't mind foreigners generally, but in smaller towns, they live in communities that don't favor having gaijin around. Many Weebs have made this mistake.

>>10041976
One fair Saturday morning soon put a book in your pack and urban-hike out to Belle Isle. There's actually plenty to do in Richmond, lots of music, some good used bookshops (Black Swan comes to mind- antedates the Taleb title btw), restautants, etc. The key of course is meeting people. There ARE /lit/ folks in Richmond, btbh I have (you) by a decade and this may not hold for the undergrad populace.

Oxford or Cambridge

>>10041940
Eternally

>>10042047
Holds in the states as well, though the Oxford be in Mississippi, and the Cambridge of course in MA.

>>10039173
>>10039778
tbqh any city that isn't a mecca of publishing or a graduate writing haven isn't going to be that /lit/. I've lived in Philly all my life and the most literary events I've been to have been slam poetry related. Been to lots of other great historical/architectural/scientific lectures though.

>>10042762
Oddly, up until about ww2 Philly was THE mecca of publishing in the states. Before my great uncle died he wrote about a 20pp recollection of his life and one of his memories as a kid was when the publishing companies began to abandone Philly, how heartbreaking it was, etc. It had been THE city of the arts in this country really from close to its beginning up until at least the 30's, and still a great city- perhaps second only to Boston in the U.S.- for higher education. Ever been to any of the venues at the Academy of Music? The stage at the Opera House there was made out of tall ships wood over 100 yrs old at the time of its construction, and the House itself is the oldest continually functioning one in the country. Philly has of recent made a kind of comeback, especially in terms of music, and despite the paucity of literary events is now and becoming moreso a city with a relativity noticeable population of readers. That's been my experience though I don't live there now.
>from an old Philly German\Quaker family.

Cracov
Prague
New York
San Francisco
Lyon
Vienna fucking Vienna fuckers

>>10041792
>people were different
What's wrong with the people?

>>10043101
If telecom and the wealth surrounding it has killed a city, that city is San Francisco.

>Rotterdam

Have weed erryday, good poetry scene, if you go south of the river chance to have adventures that will certainly give you something to write about and win some prizes.
Chance to unfagor go full bara by doing proper work

>>10042004
But what would they do?

>>10039584
>poorass cheap makeup Czech whores everywhere

that sounds amazing tho

Sao Paulo.

inb4 sopa de macaco

>>10043248
>can't walk outside after dark without getting robbed and/or murdered
>all homes have to be barred and walled off or you're getting robbed and/or murdered
>if driving, can't stop at red lights after dark because you can get robbed and/or murdered
>if getting robbed and/or murdered, can't call police because they'll be just as likely to rob and/or murder you
Well, if there is a library or two, sure.

>>10038782
Israel has a highly /lit/ feel to it. The high concentration of folklore, the "Promised Land" landscapes, the sea and the religious buildings, the ongoing aeons-old conflicts ...

>>10043101
What's lit about Vienna?

Trieste

London is the only real /lit/ city. Nowhere else produces greater literature per capita.

>>10043616
Center of a once culturally dominant, dead Empire

>>10040898
New York is nothing compared to London

How can Americans even compete?

L O N D O N
O
N
D
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The Patrician's Choice

>>10038829
>>10039584
>t.never been to Paris

>>10043640
Both are shitholes now because of jews.

>>10043878
well Paris lost its charm from 19th century.

There is no place on earth more inspiring to literary minds than the Japanese countryside

>>10043901
pls make a moving gif of that image, I wanna see the wind and the grass moving

>>10041947

What the fuck do you consider San Antonio, man?

Never gone to a lecture at Trinity? Never listened to a slam at the Pearl? Never drank at any of the dives on the Walk?

>>10043901
If you don't mind getting freak stares every time you walk outside and the smell of fish stuck a hundred feet up your nose.

>>10043897
Lol, what about the twenties? Haven't you seen Midnight in Paris?
Pleb

>>10043878
Have been to Paris, found niggers and dickheads.

Would not recommend.

>mfw anyone in this thread says ANYWHERE in Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjpI6tmIQco

>>10043647
London would be nice if it wasn't so fucking expensive.

>>10043590
That's hyperbolic anon.
But yeah, it's dangerous. It's still the cultural hub of South America though, if OP had asked for great living standards I'd mention some medium-sized Scandinavian haven.

>>10043962
How can culture thrive in a society that's so murderous?

>>10038788
>muslims, slavs and americans
no thanks

>mfw no one knows how lit Santa Fe is

what's more lit than working part time in a gallery selling mexican modernist art and having a qt gf who goes to st. john's college to discuss the western canon with on your way to a sweat lodge in the desert?

water tastes like shit though tbf

>>10043944
ever since the eiffel tower was built to be h

>>10043989
The white people bunker down in the south, Sao Paulo is run by jews and their mostly European go-getter slaves, and the really out of control crime is in the north. Brazil is what the west will look like if whites don't start dealing with our jewish problem and sending people back.

>>10044000

>Unbearably hot for seven months
>Unbearably cold for five months

No thanks, queer.

>>10044019

>unbearably hot for 7 months
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha what a dumbass

BSk is the most /lit/ of climates

>>10044042
>But it's a dry heat!

Fuck off

>>10044079

>unbearably hot for 7 months

it's never over 90, much less for 7 months of the year, just stop posting hahahahaha

>ctrl-f 'boston'
>0 results

>>10044147

Nigga, I live in Albuquerque, I fucking know what Santa Fe is like in the summer

anywhere in the old world, this is a fact.

new worlders, how does it feel walking on grounds without history? not feeling war, bloodshed, plague, 18th century prostitution, political revolution, renaissance art movements or the middle ages below your feet? all houses - empty with history. that pavement over there? biggest thing was someone dropping a coca cola there in 1981.

i feel sad for you.

>>10044690

>Culture is old buildings

lol, what a queer

>>10044690
>People didn't inhabit America before the 1600's

>>10043952
>haha yea it was so great back then with destructive wars leveling whole cities and killing hundreds of millions of people but now here is some footage of refugees and poor people, what happened to Europe amiright?

kill yourself with your propaganda

>>10043952
>it was such a paradise anon

>>10043952
>Those dam refugees are savages ruining our pristine history

>>10043952
>Hitler was trying to save Euro

>>10044927
>>10044929
>>10044934

What are you trying to prove beyond

>Americans are evil

>>10043952
Why man?

Europe was the best of humanity. We invented democracy, science, philosophy, everything good. Why destroy it?

>>10043952
everybody was peaceful and loved each other, I know the level of fear my ancestors felt because a refugee was looking at me funny. Hitler was trying to save us anon

>>10044943
>We invented democracy, science, philosophy
none invented by Europeans

>cities
>/lit/

>>10044938
you can't be this retarded? watch the video

>>10044927
>>10044929
>>10044934
>>10044944
>Take in rapefugees or get bombed, pick your poison
The absolute state of Europe

>>10043209

Do you really want to know what's fermented in their local sakes?

>>10044966
>I'm gonna avoid addressing the whole arguement of that shit video and instead make up an ultimatum that doesn't exist to avoid looking like a /pol/ retard

>>10043609

I greatly dislike the Israelis overall, but I've traveled there and would agree with this. Nazareth (Christian/Muslim city) is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to and definitely had this old world vibe. Even had a French painter on the side of the road making an oil painting of some arab kids playing.

>>10043952

Jewish ideology is a hell of a drug. These videos always make me pretty sad.

I have some old pictures from Czarist Russia you all might enjoy before the jews ruined that country as well.

>>10044966
read a book, back to /pol/ propaganda following retard

>>10039584
I too get all my knowledge of other countries from /int/ memes

>>10044950

The ancient Greeks were primarily of Dorian stock, you mong.

>>10045030

>>10045018
go back to your containment board faggot, nobody wants you here

>>10043952

>>10045041

Stop being afraid of viewpoints different from your own.

>>10043989
You think the old greeks were peaceful? The romans?
There's no correlation.

São Paulo has the largest library in Latin America, some of the most prestigious art museums in the world, the best and biggest university in Latin America and ranked like 20th in the world, historical buildings, rich history, significant musical and literary scenes. And don't let /pol/ fool you into thinking miscegenation equals genocide, the cultures of the Italian, Japanese, Lebanese, German, African etc people who've settled there are all still very much alive, São Paulo being the city outside Japan with the largest population of Japanese people in the world. The cultural heritage of these people doesn't get erased when they come together, instead it is both conserved and fused with others to create something new.

inb4 reddit, normie, cuck, etc

Take the time to read actual literature rather than infowars articles, since Antiquity has cultural exchange been a pillar for great civilizations.

>>10045053
Have you ever tried to convince people not on the internet to think like you? Of course not, because you're objectively wrong

>>10045040
You're a joke, never forget that.

Paris is nice (I have been multiple times in the past few years) but I feel like its literature scene is hollowed out. Old classic books are sold in street stores in the way you would expect, yet they are sold by non-readers who sell, alongside those books, cheap gifts. It's almost as if people are monopolising upon Paris' /lit/ reputation. That being said, if anyone goes I can recommend some great places the Abbey Bookshop is an english-language bookshop owned by some Canadian guy who loves his work. It's filled to the ceiling with books and it's wonderful. Far better than the tourist-filled Shakespeare and Co (though pay that a visit too).

New York is similar, I think, though with less pretension.

Oxford and Cambridge are great university cities filled with old bookshops and people who actually read and write. Oxford in particular. Cambridge is quainter, though. Oxford has Blackwell's which is frequented by students (they stock books specific to their courses) and has a nice café where non-students work. To be truly /lit/ in Oxford get accepted at the uni and read in the Radcliffe Camera away from all the tourists who aren't allowed in there.

>>10043248
>São Paulo
Fuck off you precto
I've lived in this hellhole for 10 years and have personally known 3 people who've been shot, 2 who died.
No one even mildly cultured would come here, simply because they should be afraid of being executed in the streets. Therefore, everything of culture that comes out of this shit is degenerate. From funk da zl to that fucking santander exhibit, nothing that is produced here is worth anything.
Worse of all, São Paulo's "culture" has infected the rest of the country like a vicious cancer, so the whole of Brazil is fucked for the forseeable future.

I'm working hard so that I can get an admission to the University of Vienna. I hope I have the opportunity of trying to make a life in a place where my work can actually make a difference to society, and not be drowned out in a country that gets more violent and disgusting by the day.

>>10038782
>Living in cities to find like minded people
That just makes you a filthy urbanite, anon. If want you want is faux cosmopolitanism and liberal bourgeois attitudes , go for any city in Western Europe or the US.

>>10043952
>That one samefag posting WW2 memes as if that somehow disproves the fact that Europe is no longer European due to neo-liberal immigration policies and ivory tower dictations from academia claiming that race doesn't exist despite most of them never having to deal with diversity. Ever.

>>10044966
>>>/r/thedonald

>>10045516
>>>/r/politics

>>10045456
>radcliffe camera
ew.
sneak into other colleges libraries senpai and draw sketches of their cute librarians in the margins of the books

>>10041920
nice

>puts down a toni morrison novel
>cracks open the latest new yorker
>downloads an npr podcast
>goes to a free summer concert series
>gets hair cut at place that serves whiskey, like back when real men shaved with straight razors
>wears an untucked gingham shirt not over a t-shirt and over-polished menswear wingtips
>waits three hours for a text from the new small plates pop-up restaurant
>orders the second least-expensive malbec
>tries to watch all the oscar nominees each year
>cannot believe how good the new rap album is
>goes to a coffee tasting
>orders a kindle and hard copy of the latest kwame ngobongo novel but listens to it on audiobook during commute to his new marketing job
>goes to four spinning classes a week
>talks about how busy life as a creative is
>buys a groupon for hamilton
>lives in new york city

pic no longer related. america's major cities aren't even hyper-gentrified anymore, they're just straight up corporatized.

>>10045546
the likeness isnt very good tbph

>>10038782
Dublin is the only correct answer to this question

>>10045826
Dublin is a shithole, and it's not even the most /lit/ shithole in Ireland.

>>10045830
Compared to literally every U.S. city and most of the meme cities like Paris/London/Rome, it's like goddamn Eden.

>>10045840
Yeah but that's setting the bar very low.

>>10043183
Based.

>>10042052
Go Vols

>>10045830
Galway's lit, and not a shithole.

>>10038782
holyoke, ma

>>10045891
Not as /lit/ as Belfast, which is a shithole.

>>10045923
Dublin is objectively better than Belfast because at least Dublin doesn't have paramilitary flags flying everywhere

>>10044042
Snow is the most /lit/ of weather conditions, so I'm not sure I agree with you there.

>>10045935
The paramilitary stuff is one of the best things about it.

Free Staters are just a bunch of soy-boys that can't handle a bit of recreational hate crime and segregation.

>>10045939
>snow
Pseud
>sunshine
Patrician

>>10045946

Gross

>>10045941
>that can't handle a bit of recreational hate crime and segregation.
it's called the GAA and they are legitimate traditional sports which kilkenny have been cheating at since the dawn of time.

>>10045965
>He likes snow better than heat
>He likes cities better than nature
>He likes the night time better than the day time.

>>10045971
But do they have recreational car bombs tho?

>>10045978

Exactly

>tfw you can't move to the South Africa and live the comfy life surrounded by glorious scenery and weather because you'll get murdered by a gang of niggers.

>>10045923
Been to G have ya?

>>10043647
holy shit i was just there in that pub

>>10046005
When I was a kid for a few days.

Wasn't too impressed.

>>10039778

I can't comment on Philly proper, but there are some great stores/libraries on the main line. Treddyffrin (sp?) Library has a used bookstore that (during sales) will have all paperbacks for 50c and hardcover for 75c. This is independent of size/genre, so you can get some great deals on textbooks/etc. I've easily grabbed two dozen high-quality books at a time.

Even some niche stuff comes in, most of my Japanese lit collection was built from those sales (some of which haven't been published since the 80s).

>>10046009
>too
hm.. I could beg to differ, but'll let it pass. Belfast it is!

>>10045978

>>10045983
>My cliche and bourgeois aesthetic is better we than yours
Wew lad

>>10038782
There will be many people much smarter than you there, and some stupider too, don't worry.

>>10045920
What! Amherst, maybe....

Turin, Buenos Aires and Cairo.

>>10043087
True, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' was first serialized in Lippincott's, a Philly magazine. There were some others mainly centered around the Washington Square area, but they've been gone for a long time.

I am hoping its renaissance makes it a bit more of an arty place rather than just a Silicon Valley wannabe. And yes, the Academy of Music is beautiful, I still manage to get student tickets there.

>>10043616
Are you joking? Read Schorske's 'Fin-de-siecle Vienna'

>>10043647
It's been a long time since Keats lived there, it's bougie as fuck.

>>10046876
Awesome on A of M. My father's family owned and ran a bakery\confectioner's shop on that portion of Vine Street sacked for the expressway extension back in the early '70's (opened in 1850, closed in the early 1960's) and once catered events both there and at the Academy of the Arts. Still the best place in the country to see a bel canto. Used to go to the (very informal) Sunday afternoon matinees there with my folks when I was a kid, great memories. Everyone (but me) lives in S. Jersey now, however- nice enough, but hardly /lit/.

>>10039791
Be reborn as a Japanese person. It's hard to explain the subtle xenophobia of Japan unless you've experienced it.

Hanoi or Osaka

>>10048326

>Hanoi

hahahahaha

Maybe if you had said Ho Chi Min City, but fucking HANOI?

HAHAHAHAHA

>>10039135
Ditto (though I went to UCLA for university, not Berkeley). San Diego is a nice place to live, but it's not particularly literate. I will say that our theater scene is actually pretty solid (much better than LA's, for example), but past that options for high culture are limited. The geography and weather are top-tier, though.

>>10043590
Are you describing Sao Paulo or Rome?

>>10044690
>being this oblivious

>>10048406
He's describing Sao Paulo because Rome is nothing like that
I chuckled though
t. Roman

>>10046876
I live in Vienna lol, it's the 21st century now though

>>10043878

Lyon >>>> Paris

>>10048323
This. When I went outside of Tokyo they wouldn't even serve me in restaurants. Might be different if you're actually fluent in nip speak, tho,

>>10041920
Montreal has a weirdly robust antiquarian books scene.

Name a more /lit/ city than Pyongyang.

I'll wait.

Edinburgh is the patricians choice. Great architecture and the biggest performing arts festival in the world every year.

>>10049446
How expensive is it to live there? Is it comparable to London?

>>10039150
This. Anything not New York City is just patently incorrect.

>>10050047
lol, BKLYN

>>10050047
But all of these places are too damn expensive, it was cheap rent that used to attract literary types to certain cities all throughout history

>>10050047
Writers go to NYC to meet up with their editors. They no longer live there.

>>10050155
nowadays with the internet and quick and cheap travel it really doesn't matter where you are

>>10050350
So long as youre happy, right? I live in a rather small American town of 25,000 that supports 3 used bookstores and, for its size, exceptionally /lit/. Neither is it mentioned here nor will it be. Makes me wonder..

>>10050047
Man you can't live in nyc unless you make a lot of money. It's a changed city for better and worse.

>>10050913
same, I live in a town of 50,000 about an hour north of San Francisco, its completely surrounded by beautiful nature. The town itself has a small town feel but being so close to SF it isn't a backwards backwater. Whenever I crave some urban fun I just drive down and spend the day in the city

>>10050941
Is this trend in western cities every gonna end? It's getting more and more expensive, soon the suburbs will turn into forgotten ghettos

>>10050953
I think so - younger people are drawn to urban downtowns whereas the boomers were into suburban sprawl and all of the gross waste that comes with it. The change takes time, but I believe it's clear to most in society that a house with a lawn and a fence is not what the hype suggests. People would like to live close to others with public amenities and social places in walking distance

>>10050983
Wasn't the trend the anon you're replying to mentioned increasing costs associated with urban living? How on earth would *more* demand stop a trend towards increasing costs?

And a house with a lawn and fence is great. Gardening and small-scale agriculture are very /lit/ hobbies.

Joke: suburbs
Broke: cities
Woke: small towns
Masterstroke: countryside

>>10045123
Is there crime in the japanese areas or are they of higher class?

if you want to stay in North America and live relatively cheap I'd suggest Montreal. I'm actually really surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. It's have the price of Toronto (less than a quarter of NYC) and I find the arts scene there rivals both. Plus the history and architecture is 17th century old world tier

>>10051209
Looks beautiful and idyllic, but noisy.

>>10038782
>Rome
Aesthetically the most beautiful city on earth, you walk among millennia of history, strolling daily through places where the most brilliant minds of the planet once thrived.
It's still alive culturally but being in the South it's not well kept, it's dirty, public transportation is non-existing and some areas are dangerous at night (but not the areas where you'd wanna be anyway)
>Milan
The cultural hub in Italy, fashion capital of the world, art and literature scenes are really big. It's in the North so more organized.
However, it can feel a little soulless, kind of an italian New York in a way.
>Venice
Beautiful and romantic but tourism is a plague. Rome has it but to a lesser extent, in Venice you can't move around: being an island means it gets packed really quick.
>Florence
Beautiful, beautiful scenery and nature in Tuscany, art and history are on par with Rome, it's a university city (like the rest of the places on this list) so there's some activity, but significantly less than the others.

>tfw majored in Political Science
I didn't know I'd want to relocate to Belgrade or Sarajevo. What am I going to do? I miss the Balkans so much.

>>10052305
>Aesthetically the most beautiful city on earth,

heh

>>10052394
It is
Name a better one

>>10044204
Is there anything you have to add about Boston? It seems like another city that got fucked with rich college students and gentrification. The movie theaters in the area are nice, but I live a lot closer to Providence. There's not too much happening in Providence in general, unless you're just another person with money to spend.

>>10052450
That's a shame about Providence. I wanted to visit and see if it was better than Central Florida. I'm not interested in tourist traps.

>>10050045
The UK is tiny so commute from somewhere cheap like the locals.

>>10048353
San Diego does have a good theater scene; UCSD has one of the top programs for it. But yeah, other than that not a ton of culture. It's definitely a STEM city. A lot of artists skip touring there, and obviously there's nothing in the way of painting/sculpture. At least the food is good.

>>10049079
Lyon is pretty flame, but in terms of visual arts Beaux-Arts simply can't compete with anything in Paris.

>>10049355
do you think kim jong un would let me live there as a writer-in-exile if i swore loyaty to the regime?

>>10053483
I'm not really all that enamored of San Diego's food scene. We do casual sit-down and gastropub type food pretty well, but we only have two or three really top flight fine dining restaurants, and they charge way more than an equivalent restaurant would charge in most other parts of the country. At least there's lots of good beer, I suppose.

>>10053516
>At least there's lots of good beer
i was kind of lumping beer in with food desu. Stone is the GOAT. And there are a lot of good cheap places to eat, but yeah not so much on the high end.

What's the most /lit/ city in the Bible Belt?

I'm planning on moving when I graduate, but I want to stay in the South, I think.

>>10054688
Asheville NC

>>10038829
That's because you're the kind of person who would formulate a sentence like yours. A person like you won't meet anyone worth meeting - not that Blacks can't be worth meeting, but with your attitude, you would never know if you had met one worth meeting.

>>10054736
I've gone to Biltmore there and visited a few other place there. It was pretty cool. I'll definitely consider moving there if I can.

>>10054767
Love the Biltmore library and grounds. One of the nicest things about downtown is the scarcity of cops. Though easily /lit/ sometimes the 24 hour a day 7 day a week fringe fest (=downtown) can seem a little much. I'd find a place just outside downtown. Cool place.

>>10041920
I'm from New Orleans and can't disagree more

>>10054870
any good used book shops in the quarter or downtown?

>>10054750
Either you have never been to Paris or you are a Parisian.

That city is a shithole. Not because it's full of niggers. But because it has a scumbag population of 100%.

>>10055783
it smells awful, too. like my farts after i've eaten a few too many eggs.

>>10052305
>Rome
>South

>>10055848
Saw that too. West and perfectly central.

>>10039135
What's happened with Paris? I've only spent 2 days there and there were some intellectual conversations happening in a couple cafes I visited, but I don't really know the current situation.

>>10041811
Fucking love Vienna, such a great city. Never been to Dublin or Belfast, but would love to visit

>>10050075
Yeah but we need to game our GDP numbers so pay up lattecuck

>he unironically prefers to live in a city
Holy shit this has to be bait

>>10044003
>and the really out of control crime is in the north

North/Northeast may have the biggest number of petty crimes among the poor (it's mostly poors killing poors anyway), but Rio and São Paulo have the biggest gang problem. Rio's mayor doesn't even control his damn city, the governor has to constantly ask for army troops because the military police is both corrupt and powerless against traficantes.

>>10056929
Basically all the memes on pol about Paris are true. It's also dried up intellectually. Can you even name any contemporary writers who aren't French who live there? There certainly was a greater variety of people living in Paris up until sometime after the 70's, although it was already in decline after World War II with the rise of Existentialism and Marxism.