The best city in the world

According to wikipedia London and New York are the only two cities in the entire universe which are described as Alpha++ World Cities. London is the world's most economically powerful city according to Forbes, it is also known as Financial Capital or Financial Centre of the world. London is a leading global city, with its strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It has the largest city GDP in Europe and it is the most visited city in the world. London has many airports such as London Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, London Gatwick Airport, London Luton Airport, London Stansted Airport and London Biggin Hill Airport etc.London's five international airports make its airspace the busiest of any urban centre worldwide and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. London's Global University UCL is ranked 4th worldwide and Imperial College London is ranked 7th in the world. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the Summer Olympics three times. London Underground is the oldest and it was the world's first railway underground system. London's bus network is one of the largest in the world, running 24 hours a day, with 8,000 buses, 700 bus routes, and over 6 million passenger journeys made every weekday. London's Chinatown is the largest in Europe. London has a diverse range of peoples, cultures and religions, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries. Richmond Park in London is 3 times bigger than Central Park in New York City. London has 2 financial districts such as The City or Square Mile and Canary Wharf. London is home to many museums, galleries, and other institutions, many of which are free of admission charges and are major tourist attractions as well as playing a research role. The first of these to be established was the British Museum in Bloomsbury, in 1753. London has 3 most visited museums in the world out of top 5. Wembley Stadium is the most expensive stadium ever built it cost USD$1.57 billion in 2007. London has many other famous and expensive stadiums such as Emirates Stadium Arsenal, London Olympic Stadium, London Aquatic Centre, Wimbledon (Tennis), and Twickenham Stadium (Rugby) etc.

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[Nihilanth1982]

when i visited new york, it felt american. when i visited london, it felt WORLDLY.

[callin2427]

First time i went to London i saw that this city is definately best city in all the world. London is just amaizing. I cannot wait to go back there on holiday. Actually i want to live there.

Love from Deutschland .

[vrny1975]

@yeahacoustic wow Im glad you settled that one.Queens NY (not all NY) is the most GENETICALLY diverse place on the planet, Nat Geo took random DNA swabs of people on the street to trace early human migratory patterns from Africa to the rest of the world which started 60,000 years ago. Its 2 or 3 postal zip codes in Queens that house pretty much every genetic type on the planet, thats according to Nat Geo. Im talking genetics not nationality.

[yeahacoustic]

@vrny1975 actually, london is the most diverse place on the planet. this was proven by a selection of students at a new york university who were actually trying to produce figures to show new york as the most mixed. know your facts. ldn>nyc (though not knocking new york, it's a fantastic city)

[Velozisimoh]

I love the convination between the old and modern of this city

[AmjadDuhaini]

@DarkosApprentice Haha, London is a shit-hole no it is not, I used to live in New York and other areas, and the people there are by far the worst there's gangs massive ones mafia's no thank you I would rather live in London and leave New York a preposterous place to live, riots happened because there were some immature teens who felt like looting so why reflect it on the whole of London, so why don't you go to your shithole hell! Now STFU!

[samados969]

Paris FTW ;D

[vrny1975]

@Nihilanth1982 All I saw in London was the Union Jack, NYC rocks, I dont think youve visited very much in NYC except the tourist traps. I love London but Queens NY is the most diverse place on the planet. Come back and do not follow any tourist guides, you will find the people here warm, friendly and extremely welcoming, thats how I was treated when I first came here. 

[vrny1975]

NYC and London are more like each other than any other city in the US or UK. Ive visited London a few times, and live in NYC, they both have oddities like Chinese people making Pizza , Indians selling luggage in China town (NYC) and Chinese and Arabs selling fish and Chips (London), I love it, makes the world a better place, the world over can learn acceptance and tolerance from these cities.

[Nihilanth1982]

@DarkosApprentice sorry but when i was there i hardly encountered as much foreigners as you like to say compared to when i was in london. my best friend is from sweden and italy, both study there. their doctor is serbian. my boss, when working there, was south african. colleagues consisted of americans, locals, japanese and a greek. gf was danish. this is a small sample. say what you want, but when i went to new york, it was shit. full of americans. nowhere near as worldly.

[DarkosApprentice]

@Nihilanth1982

Lol is that some kind of joke? New York is filled with italians, russians, puerto ricans, colombians, serbians, albanians, blacks, whites, jews, mexicans, etc. It is way more multicultural than london, new york city is also bigger than london !.

London recently had a riot, you can have your opinion but london is a trashhole !

[Nihilanth1982]

@DarkosApprentice I have been to new york. It's an overrated, butt ugly concrete dump full of Americans, it's nowhere near as multicultural and open as London. The people there are arrogant and full of themselves, and the US flag is everywhere (very american). In London, in about two minutes walk I have must have encounterd dozens of languages from people - in NY it would just be americans. You're entitled to your opinion, but London to be rocks. NYC sucked balls, sorry.