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What % of the world has heard of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Rodeo Drive? 70%?
What % of the world has heard of Willis Tower, Millenium Park and Michigan Ave? 10-15%?
Now Chicago beats LA in many things, but definitely not global reputation. LA is a super-iconic city, rivaled only by NYC, Paris, London and the like. Chicago is definitely not as well-known globally, and ranks behind NYC, LA, Vegas, Miami, Orlando, SF, and Washington in terms of global recognition.
I would probably say 10-15% of the world's population having heard of Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive.
As for the Chicago neighborhoods, that percentage is probably not over 0.1%, if not smaller. I have never heard of any of those things and I consider myself knowing a lot of stuff.
Chicago has no major world icons (arguably the skyline itself is an icon, but has no official designation): but it ranks top 3 in terms of mentions in music, art (especially architecture) and literature for US cities. If you're studied in those fields, Chicago's going to come up a lot.
In reality though, the only neighborhoods that are known worldwide in the US all exist in NYC and LA. Other cities have a lot of icons, but the average joe doesn't have an idea of how they function, what they're most famous neighborhoods are, etc....
I really don't think Los Angeles has anything to compare with the likes of Millennium Park in Chicago. Partially due to the weather, but the ice skating scene is pretty big there and after Central Park it's probably the next largest and well known rink in the country.
Los Angeles has nothing like the Magnificent Mile. L.A. may have more high end shops overall, but it doesn't offer the feeling or view that the Magnificent Mile does.
There is not really anything in Los Angeles like Millennium Park, at least at the size and scale. Grand Park is the closest and it is a lot smaller. However I could flip that and say there is nothing like Griffith Park in Chicago.
I'd say that LA's answer to the Mag Mile is Rodeo, though it is quite a bit different and the buildings are only 2-4 stories tall. Not sure I would say what is "better", neither are really my cup of tea.
I would never be jealous if I had friends in Chicago telling me that. Are you kidding? That's like being jealous of a Honda Civic? I don't have to sit in any traffic to get to my nearest beach. I can either walk, take the bus, or just ride my bike, and once I get there, nothing in Chicago can compare. I seriously can't compute how you included Chicago and beaches in the same sentence in a positive light over LA. Wow.
Obviously if you're lucky enough to live near the beach and afford the rent then the story is different.
If you live closer to Central LA like myself, you have to drive.
While Chicago doesn't have an nice beaches of course as Southern California, they are much easier to get to without driving generally than Los Angeles.
The 704 takes over an hour to get to Santa Monica.
In the voting polls Chicago is making a slight comeback! Went from 73% for LA and 27% for Chicago to 70% for LA and 30% for Chicago. Hey, this is a lot closer than my LA vs NYC thread which had NYC at 90% and LA at 10%.
In the voting polls Chicago is making a slight comeback! Went from 73% for LA and 27% for Chicago to 70% for LA and 30% for Chicago. Hey, this is a lot closer than my LA vs NYC thread which had NYC at 90% and LA at 10%.
Yea any poll can make a comeback with phantom votes
In the voting polls Chicago is making a slight comeback! Went from 73% for LA and 27% for Chicago to 70% for LA and 30% for Chicago. Hey, this is a lot closer than my LA vs NYC thread which had NYC at 90% and LA at 10%.
Who cares, City Data is not really well known for using scientific data.
Who cares, City Data is not really well known for using scientific data.
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