What is your city?

[Savonarola]

I was watching the Netflix series "Abstract" a couple nights ago.  They had on Christoph Niemann, an illustrator who's done a number of covers for "The New Yorker."  He said that the first city you go to, by yourself, as a tourist without anyone waiting for you there is your city.  His city is New York, and he built his career there (but now lives in Berlin, go fig.)  What would be your city, given those criteria?

Mine would be Florence; perhaps unsurprisingly.  (Though my allonym was actually from Ferrara, he merely did his best work in Florence.)

[The Brain]

Did he actually start out as Savronela?

[garbon]

I think my first would be Seattle, but that's so not my city.

[Valmy]

Angers in the Loire Valley

I suppose it is

[Josquius]

I guess.... Brno?
.... Yeah.... I don't like this definition. I barely remember it. Or would Cesky Krumlov count? That was nice.

[Maladict]

Venice, and it absolutely is.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Paris, but it's really not. Shanghai is really my kind of city.

[Iormlund]

I've travelled alone a lot for work, but as a tourist only to Cappadocia. And that was only because I was in the neighborhood.

I would be interested in seeing many places. Alas, I hate travelling. It's both stressing and terribly boring.

Perhaps Berlin comes the closest. I've frequently taken a slight detour to visit it, but technically my brother lives there. It is also my kind of city (though from a tourist's perspective I'd say it is not that interesting compared to so many other European cities with richer history).

[Sheilbh]

I'm not 100% sure. But I think it's probably Rio because I started my gap year there.

I'm happy to have Rio as my city

[Oexmelin]

Toulouse for me. It will always be a city I love. Is it "my" city? I don't know, for it has to compete with Chicago, the first foreign place I moved to, to live - rather than to do tourism or research.

[11B4V]

I don't tourist.

[Grey Fox]

I think that would be a small village in Cuba called Pilon.

If going to a all-inclusive resort doesn't count, then it's Edmonton.

I re-read the criteria & no travel I've done fits.

[Admiral Yi]

By that definition mine is Montreal, which I'm totally fine with.

[Monoriu]

When I was a kid I always travelled with my parents.  After getting a job, I almost always travelled with my wife, who does most of the planning.

The one exception would be work related travels.  I was sent to take a semester at Berkeley.  So I went to San Francisco by myself.  The problem with that is I didn't choose to go there voluntarily.  More like, either go there or be fired. 

[Razgovory]

I have no city.