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Top 45 places to visit in 2012 - according to NY Times.

SSSnail said:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/travel/45-places-to-go-in-2012.html

I'm just gonna list the top 5:

1. Panama
2. Helsinki, Finland
3. Myanmar
4. London (D🙂
5. Oakland, CA

OK, now I live right across the bridge from Oakland, and I wouldn't visit it if you pay me. As I saw that, I knew that list is bogus.

I wonder how much Oakland pays the NY Times...
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Did the article say WHY it was a top place to visit? Not everyone wants theme parks and sightseeing. If you want to purchase drugs and untraceable automatic weapons Oakland is a great destination.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Did the article say WHY it was a top place to visit? Not everyone wants theme parks and sightseeing. If you want to purchase drugs and untraceable automatic weapons Oakland is a great destination.
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Yeah, if you read the article they have a blurb explaining, but I'm not buying a lot of it.
 
Luxury hotels in Lhasa, Tibet. Glad I went in 2008. I knew things were going to change with that dam train.
 
I've been to a lot of those places. That list is complete horse shit. It's a list written by someone who hasn't been to the places and/or doesn't understand those places.
 
5. Oakland, Calif.
New restaurants and bars beckon amid the grit.

Tensions have cooled since violence erupted at the recent Occupy Oakland protests, but the city’s revitalized night-life scene has continued to smolder.

The historic Fox Theater reopened in 2009 and quickly cemented its status as one of the Bay Area’s top music venues, drawing acts like Wilco and the Decemberists. Meanwhile, the city’s ever more sophisticated restaurants are now being joined by upscale cocktail bars, turning once-gritty Oakland into an increasingly appealing place to be after dark. James Syhabout, the chef who earned Oakland its first (and only) Michelin star two years ago at Commis, followed up in May with the instant-hit Hawker Fare, a casual spot serving Asian street food. Big-name San Francisco chefs are now joining him. Daniel Patterson (of two-Michelin-star Coi) opened the restaurant Plum in late 2010 and an adjacent cocktail bar later, and another restaurant, called Haven, in the recently renovated Jack London Square last month. INGRID K. WILLIAMS
 
Oakland #5. That's the proof that the list was made up by an idiot. Would anyone be stupid enough to think that there are only 4 better places on earth to visit than Oakland? Somalia is better than Oakland.

Oakland, I'm speechless.
 
I'd do 20.

20. Space
The final frontier now has a ticket agent.

It’s not just the imaginings of science fiction geeks. Pretty soon anyone with $200,000 will be able to travel to the last frontier: space or — more specifically — the upper edge of Earth’s atmosphere. In 2004 Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic with the primary goal of pioneering commercial flights to space. Last year the company began test-flying SpaceShipTwo, an aircraft that will enable two pilots and six passengers to travel to suborbital space. Although no launch date has been confirmed (a 2012 date was pushed back to 2013), about 450 people from around the globe have already purchased tickets; the first passengers will be (surprise!) Richard Branson and his two children, Sam and Holly.

Flights will take off from the brand-new spaceport near Las Cruces, N.M., but Virgin Galactic “Space Agent” Joshua Bush of Park Avenue Travel in Philadelphia, predicts that in a few years “We’ll eventually be able to take off from New York, orbit the Earth and then land in Tokyo in two or three hours.” What will it be like? “After the rocket motor turns off there is complete silence,” said Mr. Bush, who has read about the experiences of many astronauts. “You look out the window and see a thin blue line of the atmosphere and comprehend how small and insignificant we are.” GISELA WILLIAMS
 
Greenman said:
Oakland #5. That's the proof that the list was made up by an idiot. Would anyone be stupid enough to think that there are only 4 better places on earth to visit than Oakland? Somalia is better than Oakland.

Oakland, I'm speechless.
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well, that's just silly. I live only a wise and beautiful woman hair away from Oakland, and I'm pretty sure I'd rather be there than Somalia.

:colbert:
 
I visit San Diego every day! 😎


14. San Diego
With breweries and brewpubs, a sunny heaven for suds lovers.
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Even in times of tight budgets, finely crafted beer remains a relatively approachable luxury, and few American regions have more brewing momentum than San Diego County. Maybe it’s time, then, to think about building a beer safari in the land of sunshine, fish tacos and hopped-up American IPAs. Long established craft breweries like Karl Strauss Brewing Company and the cheeky Stone Brewing Company have mentored brewmasters and created demand for some seriously offbeat ales.
The area has long been a hotbed of garage-based hobbyists, so it’s no surprise that the region also has a tradition of dedicated home brewing. The result is a cluster of small breweries, like the tiny but soon-to-expand Hess Brewing.
And there are numerous opportunities for rigorous but never dour beer tastings, at staggeringly comprehensive shops like Bottlecraft Beer Shop & Tasting Room and Pizza Port Bottle Shop, as well as beer-obsessed taverns like Hamilton’s and O’Brien’s and restaurants like Local Habit. Those looking for full immersion can pack a stein for the fourth annual San Diego Beer Week in November.
 
Printer Bandit said:
5. Oakland, Calif.
New restaurants and bars beckon amid the grit.

Tensions have cooled since violence erupted at the recent Occupy Oakland protests, but the city’s revitalized night-life scene has continued to smolder.

The historic Fox Theater reopened in 2009 and quickly cemented its status as one of the Bay Area’s top music venues, drawing acts like Wilco and the Decemberists. Meanwhile, the city’s ever more sophisticated restaurants are now being joined by upscale cocktail bars, turning once-gritty Oakland into an increasingly appealing place to be after dark. James Syhabout, the chef who earned Oakland its first (and only) Michelin star two years ago at Commis, followed up in May with the instant-hit Hawker Fare, a casual spot serving Asian street food. Big-name San Francisco chefs are now joining him. Daniel Patterson (of two-Michelin-star Coi) opened the restaurant Plum in late 2010 and an adjacent cocktail bar later, and another restaurant, called Haven, in the recently renovated Jack London Square last month. INGRID K. WILLIAMS
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So a couple of decent restaurants and one music venue, in the midst of a sh!thole, makes this the 5th best place to visit in 2012? Ingrid is a dumbass.
 
Did anyone else read the "headline" for Tokyo:

"Last year’s tragedy means more room for tourists."

Sounds creepy.
 
I don't know if it was written by someone who's never actually been to the places on the list, but it was obviously not written by anyone with kids/family.
 
Someone from Oakland on the staff that came up with this list, trying to drum up business?

A "best of" list with an ulterior motive? Say it isn't so.
 
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