What Asian city would you most prefer to live in?

[Lunar]

Major cities only.  No "other" option, sorry.

[Richard]

You missed Kuala Lumpur.  I lived there for a few years.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

where's Pyongyang?

ha ha, just kidding, Bangkok.

[Richard]

Bangkok is dirty.  Ew.

I picked Seoul, if I can't pick Kuala Lumpur.

[Lunar]

You missed Kuala Lumpur.  I lived there for a few years.

Yeah, I missed Malaysia.  I was thinking that Kuala Lumpur wasn't that big, but I remember now that it is a bustling city.  Ah well.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You missed Kuala Lumpur.  I lived there for a few years.

Yeah, I missed Malaysia.  I was thinking that Kuala Lumpur wasn't that big, but I remember now that it is a bustling city.  Ah well.

so why didn't you include Pyongyang either?

[Lunar]

You missed Kuala Lumpur.  I lived there for a few years.

Yeah, I missed Malaysia.  I was thinking that Kuala Lumpur wasn't that big, but I remember now that it is a bustling city.  Ah well.

so why didn't you include Pyongyang either?

People would only vote for that as a joke, and the poll isn't a joke?

[Rob]

Bangkok.

[Jake]

Seoul if the NKs weren't twenty miles north.  I picked New Delhi.

[M]

Jerusalem. Of these, perhaps Vladivostok, which has a Jewish community.

[Cashcow]

Those are both full of crime.

[Erc]

Singapore.  Easiest (with the possible exception of HK, but I'd rather not be under Communist control) place to get by only using English.  Plus I know the place.

[Platypus]

NOTA. I suppose Jakarta b/c of the very big Aussie community.

[minionofmidas]

Dilli (and thanks for the Urdu spelling in the poll, much better than the f'ckwit English Colonial spelling - I used the Hindi spelling for a contrast).
I know the place (well, parts of it), and, call me a masochist, but I really like it.

[Tory]

Osaka

[jaichind]

Been to all of them except for Vadlidoskok and Calcutta.  Easy.  Shanghai hands down.  I would have voted for my home town of Taipei a few years back but it has been clearly been overtaken by Shanghai.

[John Dibble]

Tokyo. I just love Japanese culture.

[Lunar]

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The Hindu nationalism that caused cities like Mumbai (Bombay) to reject the English spelling is disturbing though.

[opebo]

I voted Bangkok - and I'm in Bangkok at the moment, on my way back to the beach from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  I would much rather live in Phnom Penh - cooler, cleaner air, old French architecture, lots of big trees, and only about 1.5 millions instead of 6 or 8 or whatever Bangkok is now. 

Really Bangkok is just too polluted and hot, but what it does provide makes it better than any of the other cities on the list.  However with the relection of the fascist Taksin, it may cease to provide what it traditionally has.

[minionofmidas]

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The Hindu nationalism that caused cities like Mumbai (Bombay) to reject the English spelling is disturbing though.

Aye.
Especially in the case of Mumbai. "Mumbai" is a conjecture of what a more correct spelling might be IF the name is indeed derived from a local hinduist cult, which in all likelihood it is not. It's more likely that it's originally Portuguese for "Good Bay", good for anchoring in I presume. The city did not exist before the Portuguese, and then the British, came. The Hindi and Maratha spelling of the old name transliterates as Bombai.
Now Kolkata/Calcutta...that is different. This was always spelled "Kolkata" in Bangla ("Bengali"), and "Kalkatta" in Hindi. I don't see the spelling change as necessary, but I don't care about it either. It's always been spelled Kalkutta in German, btw. Like Bombay, Kolkata is essentially a colonial development, though a village called Kalighatta (likely the same name) at the site of Kolkata downtown is attested from the pre-British era.
Chennai/Madras is yet another case. Chennai is the name of the old Tamil city that the French founded their trading post nearby, at a place they knew as Madras, apparently because there was a Madrasa (Islamic school) there. If you look at a map of inner Madras, you'll notice there are indeed twin cities at its heart: The colonial, "White Man's" town (which of course also had an Indian majority even in the 19th century), called George Town by the English and Madras by Tamil traditionalists, and the oldest part of town south of it, the pre-colonial-era city of Chennai.
Dehli, unlike all of these, was a major city before the British came. The British spelling is simply a spelling error perpetuated through practice. By the time the ICS noticed, changing it a) was feared by the Brits to be seen as a sign of weakness b) would have led to new controversy since the then more common Dehli or Dihli is strictly speaking only the Urdu spelling. Many, and now all, Hindus spelt it Dilli.
(Of course, in pre-Islamic times, the city was called Indraprastha...but it wasn't very important back then. Still, I'm sure there are Hindu fanatics who would like it to be renamed Indraprastha. It's mentioned in the Mahabharata.) Keeping the wrong spelling was just a way of chickening out.
Interestingly, looking at handpainted signs in the city nowadays, it's always spelled Dilli in the Devnagari script, but Delhi or Dehli in English, often on the same sign. The absurd "new" is usually but not always ignored. New Delhi/Nai Dilli is more properly only the name of an area of the city.
Finally, to make a long post longer, there are Hindu nationalist efforts underfoot to rename quite a large number of towns whose names are Islamic, often with very much risible arguments. For example, many in the BJP want Bhopal (an Islamic name, and the capital of BJP stronghold Madhya Pradesh) to be renamed Bhojpal (which would have a Hindu religious meaning...but is not an attested historical name.)

[12th Doctor]

Osaka-

I would have to live in Japan, but Tokyo is too big, too loud and too commecialized.

[Storebought]

I'm surprised Beijing isn't on this list. You have something against SARS? Seriously, though, if Bejing weren't the homeland of Communism, I'd pick it. Interesting culture.

I would live in any Asian city that would not give me intestinal parasites after a two month stay. Japan is really xenophobic, so I'd choose some South Korean town.

[Capey]

Hong Kong

[Hitchabrut]

I agree with M on Jerusalem but of those on the list I would choose Singapore.

[J.R. Brown]

Tokyo