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Google has some really cool stuff (Thank you Bay Area)
That was real cool, but not real accurate. Looks like on the Philly to Princeton ped you went to a corner of Philly, closest to Princeton, downtown is 45 miles on the street. The Houston one looks like you just about made it to downtown, not quite. And the Dallas Ft Worth one is not a good measurement at all, looks like Irving to Haltom City.....
Tier 4: Detroit, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Denver, San Diego
Tier 5: Tampa, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Cleveland, Portland, Orlando, Cincinnati, Las Vegas
Tier 6: Kansas City, San Antonio, Columbus, Charlotte, Indianapolis, Austin, Milwaukee, Nashville, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Rochester, Memphis, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Louisville, Oklahoma City, Honolulu.
After much deliberation, I think you are more right then the rest. LA is closer to NYC, than any other tier 2 metros. Your tier 2 looks right on. Tier 3 I'd take out Seattle, drop it a notch, the metro population is not high enough. Good stuff.
4th largest metro in USA regards to total banking deposits.
4th largest metro in USA Household total Net Worth over $1 M
4th largest GDP in USA, 9th largest in the world according to City Mayors.
Arguably top 5 in usa(Culture,Arts,Higher Ed)
Ahead of Boston/Atl in Fortune 500 companies
University of Pennsylvania
#5 Business school according to USNWW (Wharton, has been number 1 for many years)
#3 Business school according to BusinessWeek
#2 Med school
#7 Law school
#29 engineering overall
#5 biomedical engineering
#20 chemical engineering
#15 materials science and engineering
Drexel University
#10 materials science engineering
Vilanova
#9 undergrad engineering of schools with top level attained masters
#11 undergrad business school according to BusinessWeek (but see below...?)
#87 undergrad business school according to USNWW
Other area colleges that have reputations:
Curtis Institute of Music (had a girl from my homeroom in HS that went there)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Temple University
University of the Arts
Bryn Mawr
Haverford
Rutgers University Camden
Swarthmore
thanks rainrock for info
philly ranks with bos and sf...
First of all, that GDP figure is totally invaid, use the BEA numbers. Philly isn't anywhere close to 4th largest in the US, let alone top 10 in the world, by any metric,city, MSA, or CSA.
The whole wealth metrics can all be lumped together( i.e. regional household incomes, banking deposits; we get it, Philly is a national center for wealth).
And all those individual school rankings from seperate universities mean nothing, number of highly ranked universities suffices, and Philly is a top 10 metro for education; with that said, Philly is still closer to DFW and Houston than Boston, and I would argue that Houston is more important, but thats for another thread.
Atlanta is laughably high in each of these. It doesn't even belong close to the top 5 in the first two categories. And Houston and Dallas as culturally and historically significant? I honestly don't know whether to take this as a joke or feel sorry for you.
And Atlanta culture? I guess if NASCAR cafes, Kid Rick and the gift shop at Cracker Barrel passes as culture these days, have at it Atlanta!
1a) NYC 1b) LA
2a) Chicago, SF, DMV 2b) Boston
3a) Philadelphia, Houston, 3b) Atlanta, Miami, Dallas
4a) Seattle, Minneapolis, 4b) Detroit, San Diego, Phoenix, Denver
after that it gets too mixed. a's are used for dominant city in same tier, b's slightly behind.
I like yours the best, the a's and b's really help the tiers.
I think LA should be a Tier one, but below NYC so that works there.
I also don't think That Boston should be on the same Tier as Philly but it should also not be in the same group as Chicago and DC so putting it as 2B works. SF I think could go either 2b or 2a.
Atlanta is laughably high in each of these. It doesn't even belong close to the top 5 in the first two categories. And Houston and Dallas as culturally and historically significant? I honestly don't know whether to take this as a joke or feel sorry for you.
And Atlanta culture? I guess if NASCAR cafes, Kid Rick and the gift shop at Cracker Barrel passes as culture these days, have at it Atlanta!
If you take the time to read he is comparing the same cities on various criteria. he is not saying that these are the best cities in the US for these.
Take the time to read before you jump head first criticizing.
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