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Maybe post-Katrina, but even so, just because people know about a city and move there doesn't mean one city influences the other in any real way. The kind of influence I'm talking about is the cultural impact one city makes on another, usually in its region. How has Houston impacted New Orleans culturally? Maybe there are examples, but I can't think of any, would-be rappers aside.
Well if that is the case no city really has no influence over anyone. I can't think of a way how NYC or LA or CHI has influenced me.
San Antonio/Austin area is definitely not mid size cities. Anyone who ever been there knows better. If these two cities were in GA they probably would share the dominance of the state with Atlanta and we are not even includling Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston or Dallas
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Well if that is the case no city really has no influence over anyone. I can't think of a way how NYC or LA or CHI has influenced me.
Well, NYC and L.A. are on another scale. They have the media, so their sphere of influence is worldwide.
When it comes to the Chicagos and the Houstons, these cities influence the smaller cities and towns nearby in their region, like DFW influences the lesser cities in the *gag* metroplex. But even using NYC as an example locally, it definitely has influence over much of New Jersey, for example, at least the northern part of the state, which serves as little more than a giant suburb of NYC. I guess that's the kind of impact and influence I'm talking about. I just don't see Houston having a "reach" as far as New Orleans that has the same effect, mainly because New Orleans is a city in its own right that influences others close to it.
San Antonio/Austin area is definitely not mid size cities. Anyone who ever been there knows better. If these two cities were in GA they probably would share the dominance of the state with Atlanta and we are not even includling Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston or Dallas
No, they would not. Both cities combined are still much smaller than Atlanta.
From reading your posts all over the forum, it is very clear that you wish these two cities are combined. They haven't, and it will be years before they do combine - if ever.
Okay, polo89. You need to re-read my post that you quoted. S L O W L Y.
I am talking about the Southern Regional offices of all of those agencies. And yes, they are all still HQ'd in DC. Never said otherwise. However, all of those Federal Agencies that affect Florida have thier SOUTHERN REGIONAL HQ's here. Has nothing to do with the ports, DHL in Broward, CSX in Jacksonville, your families next door upscale Haitians, etc. It is about the influence of the Federal Government - nothing more, nothing less. And all of those agencies that touch all of our lives happen to be based here - FOR OUR REGION.
And yes, SunTrust is HQ'd in Downtown Atlanta.
Who said anything about haitians to you. I was quoting someone else. Anyways I see what you mean. But the way you said it made sound as if you meant that everything in ATL somehow affects what they do down here. My bad.
You mentioned that your Aunt lived next door to some Haitians, that is the only reason I mentioned it.
THANK YOU polo89 for reading and understanding my post. I appreciate the fact that at least one person responded that they get what I was trying to say!
Who said anything about haitians to you. I was quoting someone else. Anyways I see what you mean. But the way you said it made sound as if you meant that everything in ATL somehow affects what they do down here.
That's what I thought he meant, and I even said that ATL doesn't.
The only big city near Atlanta is Miami, and that really isn't considered the south. The only truly big cities in the south are Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston, and Dallas and Houston are halfway across the country from Atlanta. So I'd say Atlanta is at the very least the capital of the southeast.
MIAMI is the south man Im from there and its the south the only reason it looks so different fromthe rest of the USA is because its close to the islands and south america MIAMI is the South and anyone from miami will tell you it is its not north west east its south
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