which city do u dislike the most

Absolutely, but is takes some practice. Also, when parking on a hill, point your front wheels towards the curb, preferably just touching the curb.

 

NYC.

Too regulated, too crowded, too popularly used as a proxy for America, which in my experience it just isn’t.

Growing up in the SF Bay Area in the 90s, it was a weird juxtaposition of reporting on how we were basically the center of the economic universe…coming from studios in NYC. It felt like daddy patting our collective head, and I’ve been resentful ever since. My experience has been tragedy of some kind anytime my life has touched the northeast. I’ve lived up in WNY for a pair of years and it’s not my thing, so thus far I’m thinking it’s just not my region, and the core of it, NYC, is my least fav place on the planet.

Now Chicago, which is also very urban and which has a heavily used set of heavy rail transit options available is NYC’s next nearest proxy in this country. WAAAAAYYYY better. It’s more human scale, more humble, crappy weather but also has a food vernacular I like better. I thing NYC is just a bridge too far for a west coaster like myself, and I frankly couldn’t care less what happens to it. I take some Schadenfreude when problems befall it.

 

I'm not a fan of any city, although I do kinda like Miami. I understand the whole it's-better-for-the-earth thing of combating sprawl, and cities have things that they can only have because of their scale, but consider this: concentrating people in a city concentrates the good things, but it also concentrates all the shit.

Manuals and hills? Heel-and-toe! (And handbrakes.)

 

My city!

 

Detroit. I lived just outside of there for a few years and avoided going to most places in the actual city. I tried to explore with people who grew up in Michigan, but Detroit wasn't good if you know what I mean, places closed down and got abandoned, etc, unsafe, to be vague. I understand why people (and South Park) rip on Detroit all the time now. I felt a lot safer in Phoenix where I grew up, at least I always felt safe walking around there as a kid, it was good back then at least. I've also been to other cities around the country I felt safer in.

 

Also the gloomy weather (Michigan in general) and lack of sun 10 months of the year, with bone chilling cold, ice, I could not do it. I refused to live there the rest of my life. I was way too depressed living with no sun 10 months of the year. And I'm always going to be a desert rat, I'm not built for cold climates.

 

The only sane reason to go to Detroit (like Newark) is to wait in the airport for your next leg of the flight.

 

Calgary, Alberta. Not my cup of tea.