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personally i choose chicago. I've heard great things about chinatown there.

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[–] leftofthat@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One of my least favorite parts about Las Vegas is that is feels like you have to pay to exist basically anywhere. The whole place is like a giant mouse maze designed to suck out your money.

But if all expenses are paid it would probably be a solid week there's a good variety of stuff to do.

[–] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Alright yeah, this is my answer too. A week of pure hedonism in Vegas.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ALL expenses paid? You know... I've always wanted to go adventuring in DC... adventure-time

[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

See a baseball game maybe.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seattle, to meet some online friends and go apartment hunting like I plan on doing anyway

California is unaffordable. I have no future here.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And Seattle has the Lenin statue.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

It's on the list

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. I will not say anything further

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Chicago is a pretty good one, as long as you’re not talking about winter. Some good museums and downtown is nice to walk around. Depends on how long though, you might get bored after a few days. If you go to a baseball game, be sure to see the White Sox and not the Cubs.

I’ll plug San Francisco. Ignore what the chuds say about it. You can go any time of the year. And sure, it’s lib city but none of that should matter if you’re talking about just taking a trip. It’s the most beautiful big city in the US, bar none. Better Chinatown than Chicago. Great for walking around because they have good public transit. Marin County (other side of the Golden Gate Bridge) is achingly beautiful, as is the drive down the coast. And if ALL expenses are paid then Napa is great even if you don’t like wine, they have some of the best food anywhere in the country there.

Do not in any circumstances spend more than 24 hours in Las Vegas.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

New Orleans

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Might do Anchorage just to wander off into the wilderness for a bit. I found cheap tickets there once for a 3 day weekend, and wanted to go back to do more exploring of the surrounding nature.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

If you ever come up, let me know! I might not be very outdoorsy, but I know some random neat nature spots around town that are neat to look at and a few more that are short drives away.

[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would choose somewhere with vegan pizza delivery and then I'm just gunna' stay inside the motel/hotel room and not leave. Probably watch a bunch if anime on my laptop. Not getting fucked by COVID to see imperial core bullshit. Not spending my life being around Americans.

[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I will become communist Howard Hughes.

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If it extends to a whole state, I would like to visit Albany to try an actual steamed ham. Yanks I've met keep telling me they're not real, but they're probably from Utica.

Then possibly go down to NYC to ask what the fuck the phrase "concrete jungle where dreams are made of" means. Is it just a quirk of US English? "Where dreams are made of"? If I could possibly meet Mr. Jay-Zed, I'd ask him personally, but I assume any pedestrian in NYC could answer me after informing me "[they're] walkin' here".

Finally, I'd like to chase a hoop with a stick from Times Square all the way to Coney Island, just as the founding fathers intended.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

New York, check out a bunch of museums.

Same. Plus I want to go to the outer boroughs to see all the places my mother told me about in her stories.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Plus have some really good food

[–] python@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

I mean.. I'd prefer to stay away from that whole continent if possible. But if I had to pick, I'd go to whatever town has that Casa Bonita restaurant

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Staying at home gang.

[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Austin, TX. I have a friend who lives there who I want to smash.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

i have some trans friends in some reservations in montana, and while theyre super remote, they are in a very beautiful area and have their own interesting culture to explore and learn about. id love to go there to vibe out with them sometime

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm kinda curious about visiting either the Florida keys or the Hawaiian islands so i can wander through tropical nature. I also kinda wanna go back to D.C and bum around the city and fully indulge my antiquarian side by getting lost in all the museums, then waste a day or two looking at the art masterpieces of the American Romanticist period and whatever other paintings that catch my attention.

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I went to the Keys once. It was a spur of the moment trip and we happened to arrive during its pride festival, which I later learned the city is famous for. We couldn't find a hotel room on such short notice so, we looked around for a few hours and left.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

oh that sounds like a really nice coincidence!

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

New York, I've seen too many pizza videos on youtube

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Honolulu. I just want to fuck around in the ocean.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Come to Chicago and meet the fabled corgi that has a laptop, of course!

[–] buh@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

go to Richmond VA and eat fudge rounds all day

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Plus they have a lot of breweries

[–] Sooperstition@lemmy.one 3 points 9 months ago

And a lot fewer confederate statues

[–] solitaire@infosec.pub 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There is a smaller city in New York (the state) where I've got an ex whose single, still interested and we only broke up because we didn't want to do the long distance thing. I'd love to visit. Would be bittersweet in the end, neither of us could ever make the move permanently, but I think it would be nice to relive for a week. Also the pictures of nature they send look beautiful.

[–] Blep@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Probably whatever fighting game major? Frostys just happened. Ceo/taku are both in florida and thus not happening. Vegas might be worth putting up with to go to evo.

The other 4 days would probably be spent exploring the city

[–] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Chicago is probably my pick too.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

I'd have a tough time choosing between Chicago, so I can ride the L, and Minneapolis, for its cycling network.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

San Juan

tbh I'd probably just sit on the beach

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Chicago is my favorite big city and the one I know the best so I would also go there.

Lots of good museums there (love the Art Institute and Museum of Science and Technology and the Shedd Aquarium), there is in fact all kinds of good food, even in a midwestern metropolis. I love the L and the metro in general. I've ridden that shit up and down and all around with a few good stories. In the past I've managed to miss good shows there, so I'd like to try and see one. Maybe the thing that carries Chicago over others most of all is the architecture; I'm particularly enamored with it.

Chicago does have greasy rain and too much concrete and noise and cars and grime etc, but it also stinks a lot less than Manhattan, probably because of the weather. I would prefer not to live somewhere with more than a couple hundred thousand people, but if I had to, Chicago would be first among my choices. Maybe it's just a lot of memories.

[–] hamid@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

New York is the only city in the US the rest are a bunch of suburbs and sundown towns. I'd rather be paid not to go to Amerikkka

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Oh wait I'm pretty sure I'm banned from entering the AmeriKKKa

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

chicago because im mutuals with like 20 people who live there

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago
[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Virginia, been there and liked the nature. Or maybe Colorado, a friend said it was good.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

NYC, i gotta go to the Met, got some things on my list in there. i'm sure there's other nice museums but at least 2 days i'd just be up in that Met

[–] flees@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Pie Town, New Mexico. Eat pie.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

I would go to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana and simply not return unless industrial society compels me.

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

San Juan or maybe San Francisco

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