Paradise City

Idyllic urban destination

Paradise City is the title of a 1987 Guns N' Roses song, known for its anthemic chorus about a place "where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." The phrase has become shorthand for an idealized destination or escape—somewhere life is easy and pleasures abundant: After finals, Cancun was our paradise city.

Related

guitar solo · anthem · hair metal · sunset · strip · neon · neon signs · lights · escape · freedom · utopia · heaven · oasis · boulevard · palm · trees · decadence · eighties

Categories
Opposites
utopian vs. dystopian place

Paradise Citydystopia

Imaginary terrible society

hell on earth · wasteland · hellhole · urban decay · ghost town

environmental quality

Paradise Citywasteland

Uninhabitable barren region

nuclear wasteland · scorched earth · dead zone · desolate landscape · dust bowl

CULTURAL TONE (as Guns N' Roses song)

Paradise CityNovember Rain

Precipitation in late autumn

Civil War · The End · Black Hole Sun · Highway to Hell · Comfortably Numb

Family

paradise, city, paradisiacal, paradisiac, cities, citizen

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG