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 almost got me into a tiff with a couple of friends a few days ago. 

In what began as an innocent inquiry into where one could find the best Pav Bhaaji in India, blew 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 came to the fiery rescue of their respective namesakes.  

• The Mumbaikar proclaimed Mumbai to be his eternal love with the packed locals, the monsoon, home to Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood.
• A Delhiite claimed Delhi to be the best with honors 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. 
• A Kolkattan told us that they were home to the world's best Rasgulla's, fish, intellectuals, Sourav Ganguly and therefore staked claim to the best city.
• A Chennaiite proudly spoke at length about the Marina Beach, the educated cricket crazy crowd at Chepauk, the 'to die for' Sambar immersed Vada's and its adopted son MS Dhoni. 
• A Bangalorean boasted about the hill station like weather, numerous and more malls, bustling nightlife and how it is an absolute IT haven.

This brings me to 2 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 - its just a matter of asking the right questions. Lo and behold, it struck me how trivial the discussion was; the end objectives hardly justified the means for we hardly got any concrete answers but got to hear plentiful complaints about our favorite cities in the bargain.

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

PS: I found it difficult to take sides in the aforementioned argument because I've stayed in far too many to be able to pick just the one and defend it like my life depended on it.