Best small neighborhoods in Cities Worldwide

Neukölln, Berlin

I'll pass - too many rungs up the Bohemian ladder for me.

For someone who has no idea what you're talking about, would you care to elaborate? I'm hoping to pick up pointers for future travel.

It sounds as if the neighborhood listed for Berlin is too Bohemian for the poster, a valid remark when considering whether you’d want to stay there.

Las Letras in Madrid is great. It’s central and hopping, but doesn’t feel overly tourist. The epicenter of contemporary gastronomy in town. And home to one of my favorite shops in Madrid—making bespoke wool capes. (no stranger to impulsive spending, I still can’t bring myself to drop nearly a grand on a calf-length cape.)

I had better see that district in Berlin, good reason to check it out. Twenty-five years ago or so, I had heard other things about Neukoellin.

Sorry. I just haven't had something called "Bohemian" in a long time. But it did finally click.

your title is best small neighbourhoods, the link is "coolest". Big difference. Eye of the beholder. My eye disagrees with several. But then I avoid cool.

Pretty caustic reply to the Bohemian guy. I will bow out, and stay unscathed.

"bohemian"

Not caustic, just ignorant. No idea what it meant. And yes, they said "cool" in their article. I don't know what they meant by that either. The descriptions of the places seem to be small neighborhoods so that's what I put, I don't use "cool" myself.

A good friend of mine lived in the Haut-Marais neighborhood in Paris and loved it. In fact, when he retired and moved back to the US, he kept his apartment there so he could go back and visit. It really is a very cool neighborhood - I loved my visit there, although it was some time ago.

I stayed near the Vesterbro area in Copenhagen when I was there earlier this year, and while it was very nice, I don't know that I'd put it in the top 50 hoods. Same with Noord Amsterdam - I liked it but maybe not top 50?

That said, my criteria as a tourist is probably very different than the people who live there.

Robert, it's possible your reply to periscope came off that way because of a typo? You said, "FOR
someone who has no idea what you're talking about..." but if you look at the entire phrase in context, did you possibly mean to say "FROM someone....?

Prior to the Wall coming down, what was regarded as the bohemian, avant garde, cool district in western Berlin was Kreuzberg, which is featured among traditional Berliner chansons. If you wanted to go somewhere unconventional, different in Berlin, it was the Kreuzberg area.

I didn't make out to Kreuzberg until 30 years later in 2007, not so much to see the neighborhood but to get to the park, where a historical military monument was situated.

Kreuzberg has long since been gentrifed. Now, the coolness oozes from the Neukölln borough.

"...did you possibly mean to say "FROM someone....?"

Yes, from someone, meaning me. But For someone meaning me and possibly others who also didn't know.

I can't say I write all that well. But I am/was a techie and I (usually) didn't have to.

I haven't heard "Bohemian" used in... decades? Probably used more in Europe now that I think of it. Once it "clicked" I remembered I had a vague idea of that as "starving artist" types with some other Cultural context that I didn't remember.

This term is popular again in circles talking about fashion, design and neighborhoods but usually referred as boho or boho chic.

Oh? I'd seen boho before but didn't know what it was. Thanks.

I spent my childhood in the Dundas Street West neighbourhood, which is on the full list of coolest places. Maybe I should change my forum moniker, just like James E did. I'm thinking Steve McQueen or Virgil Hilts.

When I hear "Bohemian" I usually think of people or products of or from the region of Bohemia, such as Bohemian glass.

Have a search, a nice place. Good music too.

Any opinions on the UK places mentioned?