Your place or mine?

Before you let your blessed mind run into overdrive, let me explain that the title, apart from being a shoddy pick up line most popularly used at shady bars by equally shady characters more often than not leads to a tiff among people.

In what begins as an innocent inquiry into where one could find the best, say the ubiquitous Pav Bhaji,  in India, blows out to a full-fledged argument as to how one city (their own) is perennially better than any other in the country with the chief culprits being the big city folk who come to the fiery rescue of their respective namesakes.

• A Delhiite claims Delhi to be the best with honours like the National Capital, bustling markets, home to the leaders of the country, the Delhi Metro and being a potpourri of many cultures, languages and people. 
• The Mumbaikar proclaims Mumbai to be his eternal love with the packed local trains, the monsoon, home to Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood.
• A Kolkattan tells about the array of famous sweets they have to offer, fish, intellectuals, Sourav Ganguly and therefore stakes claim to the best city.
• A Chennaiite proudly speaks at length about the Marina Beach, the knowledgeable cricket-crazy crowd at Chepauk and the 'to die for' weather Sambar-immersed Vadas. 
• A Bangalorean brags about the hill station like weather, numerous and more malls, bustling night-life and how it is an absolute IT haven.
• A Puneri boasts about being home to rich culture/traditions, Ganpati, Tulshibaug, pretty girls [ISWYDT] and of course the (in)famous puNeri paTya.

This brings me to two questions -

1. Does it even make sense to compare cities as different as apples and oranges with the same scale? 
2. On what basis does one proclaim one city to be better than any other?

On close introspection one notices that it ultimately boils down to the fact that one city is preferred over another simply for the reason that one has lived in a city X for a significant number of years whereas one has toured, stayed or simply passed through another city Y for a considerably lesser time frame. To brand the said city Y and its dwellers with a short and narrow sighted judgement seems flawed on the face of it to me as it flouts the basic tenet of coexistence - to each his/her own.

It is said that the answers are right in front of you - it's just a matter of asking the right questions. Lo and behold, it struck me how trivial the discussion is; the end objectives hardly justify the means for we hardly get any concrete answers but get to hear plentiful complaints about our favourite cities in the bargain.

Ultimately, isn't home defined by where the heart is and not the city we reside in?

PS: I find it equally difficult to take sides when asked to choose between Europe/Germany and the US.