[353FMG]

>London was one of only two cities to make the top five in EVERY category - the only other city that did as well was New York.<

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As a young boy in a Japanese concentration camp I had a small map of Manhattan. How I wished I and my family had been living there because the people in that city were free. (But so was that pilot in that cool P-38 flying overhead.)

Now that I am a US citizen (been so for 53 years) NYC is the very last city I want to be caught dead in.

Braunfels, TX beats it all.

[EDINVA]

People who lived in Manhattan during the 40s would not recognize what the city became. My parents were (x)generation New Yorkers. By the mid-50s it was clear that the city was heading in a direction they didn’t like. Throw in the benefits of the G.I.bill, and they and about 50% of original New Yorkers left town.

It spiraled down till the 70s when my dear old dad said he’d never set foot in the city again, and didn’t. Too bad he didn’t live to see how well Rudy turned it around. Still, it’s too big, too crowded, too fast-paced for most people’s taste. And way too expensive.

[wardaddy]

Tell us more please if you don’t mind
Your childhood in the war....

[Chgogal]

Wow! My great uncle was in a Japanese prison....and a very close family friend was in a Japanese concentration camp. He was young. I think about 10. He and his family lived in Indonesia, as did my great uncle.

[KC Burke]

As wardaddy suggests, you’ve got a personal story that probably should be written up and shared at some point.

Give it some thought.

[Travis McGee]

I’d take the Hill Country of TX any day as well.