If European travel is in your near future, check out this Reuters article about survey results of the best and worst of European major cities. For example, London is the dirtiest, but has the best free things to go see and do, Paris has the best food but is the least friendly - no surprises there. Copenhagen is cleanest, and Brussels is most boring, with Zurich as runner-up. Barcelona has the best architecture, Warsaw has the worst. There is more, go see the article.
I find it interesting that the only major German-speaking city mentioned in the article is Zurich, and that for being quite boring. Surely Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt or Munich would be a most or least something? Perhaps the German cities are not extreme, being "sort of interesting" or "moderately expensive?" Or perhaps the unnamed author of the piece looks at a map of Europe and for whatever reason doesn't imagine traveling to the German speaking countries.
