How worldly / agoraphobic are you? : Othor Games

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:10 am

Welcome, forum-ers. Let's have a 'contest.' Which countries and large-cities have you been to? Let's say a "large" city has roughly 500,000 people.

The most well traveled forum-er wins this cookie. :cookie: The least traveled wins. . . .:unsure:. Well that's TBD.

I'll start:

USA: Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-Pittsburg-Baltimore-Washington D.C.-Chicago-Orlando-Phoenix-Las Vegas-Los Angeles-San Francisco

Puerto Rico: San Juan

Canada: Montreal-Toronto

Mexico: Cancun

England: London

Spain: Barcelona

Italy: Rome-Venice

Netherlands: Amsterdam

Israel: Jerusalem-Tel Aviv

Jamaica: Kingston

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:43 am

Well you've got me. Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul (The two cities are for most intents and purposes the same city and combined they reach over 500k

).

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:21 pm

500,000 people? None :lmao:

Oh wait, Helsinki and the other towns it has grown together with amounts to about 1,000,000 people, so one :hehe:

Problem is, New York for example has five times more people than this whole country.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:47 pm

London, Paris, Stockholm, Moscow, Copenhagen. Those are the most major I can think of.

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:25 am

These US cities may not have exactly 500,000 in the city limits but I know the metro area is at least that or more:

Most large California cities - San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Diego, Sacramento, Long Beach, Oakland.
Midwest - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Des Moines.
East - New York, Baltimore, Washington DC.
Various other Western cities - Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle.

Outside the US its pretty limited:

England - London, Liverpool.
Mexico - Tijuana

That's it!

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:09 pm

500k, you say? Damn, then Helsinki's the only large city in Finland.
Well I've also been to Stockholm, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Amsterdam , Copenhagen, Hamburg and Vienna.

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:45 am

When I was little the family moved from one city not that large to a very small town. I traveled from home to school Sometimes I was driven places I didn't want to go to as a vacation, a few times even to another state. Of my own volition, I take offense to having to leave the house long enough to move the trash can to and from the curb.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:12 pm

Seattle, London, Sidney, Berlin, Paris, Sevilla (spain) - probably more, but this is what I could think of off the of my head

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:58 pm

Venice doesn't have 500,000+ people

(I've been there too)

Hmm... over 500,000.. off the top of my head:

England: London, Birmingham (though actually only been to the airport, probably doesn't count xD). I think England actually doesn't have many towns/cities that big.
Ireland: Dublin. Also not a country large enough to have major cities of 500,000.

Germany: Munich, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Bremen. A few more here.

I've visited Italy, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia aswell but don't think the places I visited were as big as 500,000.

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:33 am

Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Paris and London. Maybe going to Amsterdam to visit a friend next month. (Birthday coming up, need to escape the relatives somehow.

)

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:40 pm

I s'pose I shouldn't play then... :unsure:

Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Paris and London. Maybe going to Amsterdam to visit a friend next month. (Birthday coming up, need to escape the relatives somehow.

)

But I would be more than honored to show you around town if your friend is unavailable, or boring

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:29 pm

Austin, El Paso, Houston, Dallas, TX
Denver, The Rockies, CO
Oklahoma
New Mexico, (Near Ski Apache)
Louisiana

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:22 am

London, that is all.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:44 pm

Venice doesn't have 500,000+ people

(I've been there too)

Neither do Tulsa Oklahoma or Des Moines Iowa unless you count the metro area

Which would put Venice/Padua above 500,000k.

Netherlands: Amsterdam – forgot I've been there too. . .gee, I wonder why :laugh:

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:45 pm

That's not even my country's population dammit!

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:18 pm

500,000+ population:

Paris
Glasgow
London
Birmingham

and if we include the metropolitan area and not just the city centre:

Cardiff
Liverpool
Manchester
Orlando
Southampton
Sheffield

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:02 pm

But I would be more than honored to show you around town if your friend is unavailable, or boring

Works for me.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:02 pm

Can't I just state the places I haven't been to instead? :ermm:

Be a lot shorter list.. :unsure:

Works for me.

Dear lord.., I don't ask often, and you've had my back in the past.. thanks for that, btw..

So.., here's another one, and I know I said last time I'd wait at least a decade, but the thing is, I need a favor. :angel:

Pweeeeese, let Falchya's friend be as boring as watching-the-grass-grow, or unavailable in some other non-threatening fashion.

yours truly, me.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:50 pm

Can't I just state the places I haven't been to instead? :ermm:

Be a lot shorter list.. :unsure:

I'm annoyed, I've been to tons of interesting and obscure places in this country and others, but they all have tiny populations.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:25 pm

I don't know how big the cities I've been to are, but:

England: London
Uganda: Kampala
Kenya: Nairobi
Germany: Munich
USA: Dallas, Atlanta, New Orleans, Panama City

Not as well traveled as some here, but that doesn't include small places. I guarantee nobody on these forums has set foot in Karamoja, Uganda before.

Edit: OH 500,000 people. I thought you meant 50,000 people. Well in that case cut off a few US cities.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:31 pm

Crap, the island I live on only has a population 500,000, buy some major places I've been:

-Brisbane
-Melbourne
-Sydney
-Canberra
-Tasmania (the island I live on)

Soon going to Fiji though. My first time out of the country.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:03 pm

I'm annoyed, I've been to tons of interesting and obscure places in this country and others, but they all have tiny populations.

Countries count too – regardless of population. Large cities just count separately

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:18 am

Neither do Tulsa Oklahoma or Des Moines Iowa unless you count the metro area

Which would put Venice/Padua above 500,000k.

Ah right

Counting metropolitian areas I could probably add a couple more to my list then, Venice one of them. Too tired to think right now though

Edit: come to think of it, I think Hamburg city centre is less than 500,000 then, so I already unknowingly included metro areas. :thumbsup: Yay for lack of geographical knowledge!

» Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:33 am

I guess the only large city I've ever been to is Montreal, nice place though.

» Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:26 pm

I have been to London, Bristol, Chicago and New York. I've been to a bunch of smaller cities like Birmingham but I won't list them here.