For this old bird, the best place to celebrate New Year's is with family and friends. And as far away from any city, especially those with environmental vandalism fireworks (controversial I know).
I remember seeing people (on the news) having a punch up in Woolies over a packet of toilet rolls. I have no idea what was going through their heads. I just hope they were not representative of the general population.
My little brother was a very precocious child and at about 12 he answered the phone with "Murphy's Brothel, Murphy speaking". The response he got was "Senior Sargent ****, put your father on, smart arse".