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Originally Posted by missRoxyhart
Tier 1: New York City
Tier 2: Los Angeles and Chicago
Tier 3: Washington D.C.
NYC is definitely in a class of it's own and LA is not in that. For me, DC is like a threshold. As just a city, DC is below the other three but being what it is sets apart from the others in a way that can't be easily measured at least. I'd give DC it's own "special class", cause in some aspects, it just can't be compared evenly with other cities. Even as just a city though, I think DC is the dividing line between the big three and the rest of the big kids club, Philly, Phoenix, Atlanta, Boston, SF, and all the rest of the "higher ups".
I see how people might wanna put LA in the same tier as NYC. What are we always told, LA is the number two city in the country, just behind NYC. It's not just behind NYC though, people, especially those that haven't been to one or both, don't realize how big a gap there is. LA is number two to NY, but that's in the US, it's the second biggest we have here. If you looked at all the top cities in the world instead of just NY and LA, you'd see how much of a gap there actually is there. I guess I'm saying it's an issue of perspective.
It's been covered Hartford! And we literally are on the same side this time too. How rare.
1. NYC & LA (I always thought that they were seperate but equal)
2. Chicago (Big and Important, but just cant hang with the first 2)
3. DC Philly, Boston, Atlanta etc....
4. Baltimore, St. Louis, Charlotte... etc....
5.raleigh, richmond, norfolk, buffalo,...etc...
I totally agree but you forgot San Francisco in tier three and I would say that in tier 1 NYC has an edge because of its much higher population density and world inlfluence.
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