was wondering, you guys that have been to the states and been to San Diego, is there a comparable uk city to San Diego?
trying to take the GF to europe next year, and would love to see a city with the same kind of diversity

whats so special about san diego that you want to find an UK version of it?

you know the EU is much bigger than only the UK, right, so why not look further than the UK?

For a start as you are too polite to say I have been to both san diego and amsterdam and whilst I too like san diego a place like amsterdam is more cosmopolitan and interesting, particularly the sense of history, for me as a person from the "new world". I wouldn't even bring up any australian cities as our oldest cities are barely 200 years old.

holland is the destination of choice ( i should have said), but I KNOW HOW MUCH TROUBLE I'D GET INTO THERE.my best friend is the "heads" designer for addidas and he keeps an apt in amsterdam (on the companies tab) and he knows I'd get into too uch trouble.

As for me Liking San Diego, I was merely looking for a place with similar culture.
I dont really know the difference between EU and UK (unfortunately)

What's the culture like in San Diego?

to summarize
the laid back tatooed crowd, fairly progressive, culterally diverse (all races) and well educated

kinda like me, but I'm only one race

Little bit of everything. Modern American (not NYC or Chicago). Bit Latin (less than 50 miles to Tijuana, Mexico). Bit SoCal (think southwest with sophisticated feel).

My guess, Amersterdam.

Maybe London, if you do not mind high prices and camera watching your every move. That is what scared me when I was there. I make a odd move or something that could look threatening and I thought I'd have all of Scotland Yard on his a$$.

The other major cities I can think of are traditional. Paris is obvious French. Any Italian city is only found in Italy. You have rustic cities like Sicily and Torino, and modern cities like Rome and Milan, but it is obvious Italian. You have Monaco, but it is very French and very expensive. Most major Spanish cities are found nowhere in the world.


Not Europe, but Rio de Janiro is a great city. The culture in that city in unparalell to anything else in the world. The food is great. Women in bikini's everywhere (not good thing for guy with GF though), but there are men in speedos (most uncomfortable thing on the planet I might add).

If money is low, go to New York City. You have Chinatown, Polishtown, The Jewish Section, the Dutch, the Russians (great food), pretty much everything from every walk of life can be found in NYC.






Failed to read above post. Then Amersterdam is the place. German has that antiseptic feel that would be bad. London is full of uneducated Brits (they all seem to live in masses there).

I HEARD (dont know), but aren't spain as well as italy, fairly fascist countries?

Not really. England is closer to that, especially Italy. I was fine when I went to Spain back in May.

does that include london?

London is what I was refering to. You get watched by cameras everywhere. Police are at every street block it seems like.

When I think London, I think the book 1984 (last book I actually read in 10 years).

how bout it being fascist

BTW: thanks for the insight bro

If you are into the whole bombed out city look, might I suggest Detroit? They need visitors more than ever.

You can get all the drugs you like, and there is a gun in each hotel room.



Okay, the last part is half true.

my gun collection should be enough

Don't under estimate gangsta's packing heat. It might look like they hve one gun, but they can fit an asault rifle in their sagging pants.

im an ex-gangsta so.......

Your from L.A. Good point.

i wouldn't say it was fascist, ot would say it's a shit hole run by capitalists. come to southampton mate. southampton has it all, its multi cultural , on the coast, near to the new forest. steeped in history and the pace of life is just right, not to fast and not to slow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton

thanks 4 the link big rodge

Southampton is the home of the Bargate? Well I have been to Southampton then.

Your city is also the city that built the Titanic.