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Here is my thing....does NYC really represent what the country is REALLY like all over? Is the majority of the country full of skyscrapers, urban, walkable, transit filled, dynamic, international?
Or is some mid sized Midwest or Southern city/town more representative? Why are people being picked on for voting for some of the smaller or medium large cities?
Here is how I think of it...when I went to Italy, I found Sienna and Florence to be more like the rest of the country than Rome. Rome was more like DC or Boston with historic ruins.
Anymore, I think somewhere like ST Louis MSA is the best representation of what America, all over the country, is like. To me, the world class cities like NYC, London, Shanghai, Tokyo....they have as much in common with each other as they are the "face of their country." Besides the obvious cultural differences, these places are almost more like each other than NYC is like cream cheese, Nebraska.
I agree with this.
New York is an aberration in the USA. As is London in the UK and Tokyo in Japan, etc. These cities do not actually represent what the country looks or feels like.
I'd like to know why people voted Cleveland and St Louis. I can only guess they voted for the 2 because that's where they're from and they're intending to give their city recognition.
New York is an aberration in the USA. As is London in the UK and Tokyo in Japan, etc. These cities do not actually represent what the country looks or feels like.
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New York is the undisputed representative of all American cities like it or not. In certain countries they will refer to America as "New York". Ohio or Indiana doesn't represent the entire country either, nor do the Rocky Mountains. America is just a very large country. NYC is infinitely more dominant than any other city, metro, or region of the United States all by itself, THIS is NOT an aberration.
Now I can understand if "abroad" another face of the USA is cowboys, country westerns, and apple pie, but none of this is relegated to really one specific city. Nobody in Pakistan thinks Cleveland or St Louis is the face of the North American continent. It's just that simple.
Here is my thing....does NYC really represent what the country is REALLY like all over? Is the majority of the country full of skyscrapers, urban, walkable, transit filled, dynamic, international?
Or is some mid sized Midwest or Southern city/town more representative? Why are people being picked on for voting for some of the smaller or medium large cities?
Here is how I think of it...when I went to Italy, I found Sienna and Florence to be more like the rest of the country than Rome. Rome was more like DC or Boston with historic ruins.
Anymore, I think somewhere like ST Louis MSA is the best representation of what America, all over the country, is like. To me, the world class cities like NYC, London, Shanghai, Tokyo....they have as much in common with each other as they are the "face of their country." Besides the obvious cultural differences, these places are almost more like each other than NYC is like cream cheese, Nebraska.
You're not gonna find any single city anywhere in the world that accurately represents life all over an entire continent. Btw the topic is all of North America, not just the USA.
In what world is the cultural capital (face if you will) not New York?
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