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BS. Some of these cities are incredibly diverse, others are quite large, others have similar weather, some have large skylines, some share the density, some of these cities are major ports, etc...There's a number of qualities that one can evaluate on a point system of sorts to decide which city they feel is the most like New York OF THIS LIST. Again, "most similar" is not the same as "similar".
That analogy makes no sense. Cheese and yogurt are two different things with different purposes. Cities are still cities, no matter how different they are from each other. Like I said, people are intentionally making it more complicated than it needs to be.
If we did that the cities would get like 1-5 points out of 100 in comparison Even cities like Chicago Boston or Philly are basically 1/5th to a 1/10th of stuff in NYC on stuff to do/scale/urban form/highrises almost anything you can think of.
Most like NYC on a scale of 100
Dallas 4
Houston 4
Phoenix 1
Austin 2
Atlanta 3
Orlando 1
Denver 2
San Antonio 3
Seattle 5
Even somewhere like London or Paris might only get 80 points of "matching up"
Exactly. This thread is the equivalent of asking "which QB is most like Aaron Rodgers" and listing a bunch of third sting scrubs as your choice of answers.
Well just as long as you're not comparing those other cities to being Geno Smith...
Also, if New York is Aaron Rodgers than does that make Philadelphia Matt Flynn? (Just kidding, Philly )
I can list a million and one reasons of how Houston and Phoenix are nothing alike and "don't deserve" to be compared to each other, but it means nothing because they can still be compared, whether I like it or not.
You can't honestly say that a city like Atlanta doesn't share more characteristics with New York than a city like Austin. It's as simple as that. You vote for the city that you perceive to have more in common with NY than the others on the list. It's not rocket science.
It's utterly sad that I'm repeatedly having to explain the difference between "similar" and "most similar" to a bunch of adults. But like every other City Data thread, none of you are able to put your biases (or lack of perception) aside in order to make an objective call.
No, it's that y'all are deciding to make it far more complicated it than it needs to be. 72 people voted on the poll and clearly understood what they were being asked; that there's a difference between "similar" and "most similar". Why can't you comprehend this?
It's not a "dumb" question just because you think none of these cities deserve to be compared to New York.
I comprehend. I'm just not going to waste my time thinking about an answer that still won't be even close to what NYC is like.
Paris
NYC
Hong Kong
Seoul
London
Tokyo
Shanghai
Sao Paolo
Moscow
Osaka
It's Sao Paulo, both are named after saints and were colonized by the Iberian nations...
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