re: The World's Best Cities

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Then you didn't know what the frick you were doing in Venice. Venice was absolutely amazing. I met locals, drank in a "local" bar, ate in a "local" restaurant where nobody spoke English (which was very rare), hung out in a "local" campo, and talked to a an old lady for twenty minutes about her old dog, even though neither one of us spoke the same language.

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Venice is not the 3rd best place on the planet, even if that conversation about that lady's dog was fantastic

And you can do all that "local" stuff at any other old location in the world. Venice is not special in that regard. You can hit all the major sites there in a day. I don't get people who stay there for a week.

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I'm surprised that Prague or Budapest did not make the list.

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I agree with you here though. I'm surprised that Prague isn't on there somewhere.