Strasbourg kicks the crap out of Paris in my opinion. Cheaper and the food's better, and the canals make the most beautiful sounds at night when it's quiet. I stayed in London by myself for ten days and came away knowing I would move there in a heartbeat -- but there's something really impersonal about it. It would be a lonely place without some friends. People do forget how many cool things are just a train ride away. Nice is a giant party I agree that anyone who has any money at all and is in Europe simply must go there.
Nice is just fun, it's the poor-mans Cannes. Lots of bars, lots of live music, lots of friendly people, the Med, it's all just perfect. And the town and architecture is just beautiful, and what I always dreamed about when it comes to cities on the riviera. And it wasn't nearly as expensive as I thought it would be. We had a hotel with a balcony right near the train station for pretty cheap. Was a pretty decent walk to the shore, but not bad enough to complain about. That's a good way to explain how I felt about London. Just something about it didn't really jive with me. It's an amazing town and a pillar in the world for obvious reasons, but yeah I couldn't live there. I was also there when it was going through it's record breaking heatwave in 2006, in mid July. It was pretty awful, though I like to think I looked past that.but there's something really impersonal about it.