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Whoaaa, when did Miami drop? I'm serious as of last week it was where Dallas is right now.
Oh and I also didn't see Hartford on there, hmm I guess they overlooked the entire state of Connecticut!
It's so sad, because we don't have any Alpha +'s in the USA....aghhhh
We don't need to be on a list to make us feel special lol.
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Originally Posted by Scarface713
There really isn't much difference between the +'s and -'s in my opinion. And I disagree with Chicago being above LA.
It depends, there's a huge difference between Alpha ++ and Alpha - if that's what you're getting at. GaWC - The World According to GaWC 2008
That's the whole list if anyone wants to see, it was last updated 4/13/10.
~ Yeah, I figured alotta people would lol, everyone can see what they're actually measuring if you wanna argue.
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Originally Posted by Scarface713
There really isn't much difference between the +'s and -'s in my opinion. And I disagree with Chicago being above LA.
Yeahhh I'd like to see them on the same tier as each other. They go pretty much hand in hand, but the difference is Chicago completely drives it's state and almost entirely it's region.
But they both kind of cancel out on their economic sectors and such.
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Originally Posted by missRoxyhart
We don't need to be on a list to make us feel special lol.
It depends, there's a huge difference between Alpha ++ and Alpha - if that's what you're getting at.
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Pshhh, jealous! Hartford lost to Boston!
There isn't that dramatic of a difference between just "+" and "-" though, and I think that's what he's talking about.
Yeahhh I'd like to see them on the same tier as each other. They go pretty much hand in hand, but the difference is Chicago completely drives it's state and almost entirely it's region.
But they both kind of cancel out on their economic sectors and such.
Pshhh, jealous! Hartford lost to Boston!
There isn't that dramatic of a difference between just "+" and "-" though, and I think that's what he's talking about.
Well, you can't go wrong with this lol.
If Boston's the kind of city that needs to be in the spotlight, they can have it. There's nothing wrong with lonely obscurity.
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Well, you can't go wrong with this lol.
If Boston's the kind of city that needs to be in the spotlight, they can have it. There's nothing wrong with lonely obscurity.
Wait, I don't get the purpose of this picture. Like I see a US flag on some old dinosaur aged traditional styled building with like one car in the middle of the road.
What exactly am I supposed to be comprehending from this?
Wait, I don't get the purpose of this picture. Like I see a US flag on some old traditional styled building with like one car in the middle of the road.
What exactly am I supposed to be comprehending from this?
That's the place you go where everybody always knows your name, and they're always glad you came.
You've never seen Cheers?
Also look, Hartford made it on the sufficiency list lol. Along with Krakow. And Warsaw's ahead of LA, well I think.
And It also looks like Hartford is way ahead of NOLA here cause of their positions on the list. That seems kinda off. I assume the positions actually mean something cause they're not alphabetical and seem kinda random. Does anyone know if the positioning actually means something?
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That's the place you go where everybody always knows your name, and they're always glad you came.
You've never seen Cheers?
Also look, Hartford made it on the sufficiency list lol. Along with Krakow. And Warsaw's ahead of LA, well I think.
And It also looks like Hartford is way ahead of NOLA here cause of their positions on the list. That seems kinda off. I assume the positions actually mean something cause they're not alphabetical and seem kinda random. Does anyone know if the positioning actually means something?
Yeah when you see their order in the Wikipedia page, like for example in the Tier Boston is in, you'll notice that Boston is towards the end of the list, it's among one of the first to advance to the next tier. That's normally how they position it.
I actually had no idea that Miami dropped though, makes me wonder why now.
Yeah when you see their order in the Wikipedia page, like for example in the Tier Boston is in, you'll notice that Boston is towards the end of the list, it's among one of the first to advance to the next tier. That's normally how they position it.
I actually had no idea that Miami dropped though, makes me wonder why now.
In that case I find it hard to believe Hartford could be that far ahead of New Orleans, maybe a lil, but that's a huge huge gap. Maybe there's only a really small difference between cities at that level.
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In that case I find it hard to believe Hartford could be that far ahead of New Orleans, maybe a lil, but that's a huge huge gap. Maybe there's only a really small difference between cities at that level.
I have placed my doubts on GaWC many years ago, and that soubt still stays even today.
There are SO MANY cities in the Alpha/Alpha + category that so do not belong there... and so many cities that are overlooked and placed lower.
To be honest though: I really didn't even imagine Hartford would beat out cities like a thousand times larger than it. Yes I do underestimate a lot of small cities.
I've recently been puzzled by Chicago ranking higher than LA in terms global cities rankings myself. I also find it odd that Phily is not a Beta city whereas Boston is. The only thing I can think of is influence on regions. If that is the case, then it makes sense why Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago, among others, get rated higher than some cities whose GDP/economy is larger and higher.
I have placed my doubts on GaWC many years ago, and that soubt still stays even today.
There are SO MANY cities in the Alpha/Alpha + category that so do not belong there... and so many cities that are overlooked and placed lower.
To be honest though: I really didn't even imagine Hartford would beat out cities like a thousand times larger than it. Yes I do underestimate a lot of small cities.
I just had to look deeper into it lol, I had to know. It doesn't look so ridiculous now.
New Orleans city population is like three times the size of Hartford's, but Hartford is actually ahead in Metro, by one point lol.
New Orleans: 366,644/ Metro-1,167,294 46th in the US
Hartford: 124,512/ Metro-1,188,241 45th in the US
Other than that, Hartford has alotta economic power.
"In 2004, the Hartford metropolitan area ranked second nationally based on per capita economic activity, behind only San Francisco, California. Hartford is ranked 32nd of 318 metropolitan areas in total economic production and generates more economic activity than sixteen U.S. states." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford
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