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How would you group cities together? Are there different kinds of cities? All the same? All much to individual to categorize?
Example:
NYC
LA - Da Big Tree
Chicago
Miami
New Orleans
Houston - Hot n Heavy
Phoenix
San Antonio
Detroit - Industrial Wastelands
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Portland - Progressive Meccas
Seattle
San Francisco
LOL @ Minneapolis being a "progressive mecca" in the company of cities like Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco. Minneapolis is no more liberal or progressive than Madison or Milwaukee.
I think the majority of the people on city-data will respond with categories as such:
1. Their city
2. Every other godforesaken hole where the sunlight never shines, everybody and their grandmother is a knife-wielding, shadow-stalking thief and all the neighborhoods lack character and history.
Its funny to me that people in these forums often never seem to actually engage the original question. Instead they'll redefine the parameters of the topic as the first response did (this wasn't about cities vs small towns), simply criticize the question, or say something to the effect of "every city is different and unique and great in its own way" or some such objective statement that goes against the idea of comparison behind the question.
Anyway to answer the original question, I tend to think of cities in terms of levels, grouping them into tiers, based on my perceived importance of them in American society and culture. My perception is something like this:
Level 1:
NYC - America's city, and the only truely global city of the Americas, (the others being London, Paris, and Tokyo)
Level 4: Other majorish cities - ubiquitous in American culture, famous in their own right
San Diego, Portland, Phoenix, Dallas, Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis, New Orleans, Salt Lake City
Level 5: everything else
This is just how I tend to group and percieve cities.
LOL @ Minneapolis being a "progressive mecca" in the company of cities like Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco. Minneapolis is no more liberal or progressive than Madison or Milwaukee.
Here's a new category:
Minneapolis - delusions of grandeur
Denver
How exactly is Minneapolis not progressive?
I'm not saying Milwaukee and Madison aren't (I thought Madison was, and don't know enough about Milwaukee to comment) but it sounds like you don't know much about Minneapolis.
I don't understand the categories. As numerous people have stated, Indianapolis is NOT industrial. If anything, I would switch Milwaukee and Indianapolis. Also, what in the world does hot and heavy mean? Sounds inappropriate. If it's referring to weight, then certainly Houston and San Antonio would be included. However, the rest of the cities are not hot AND heavy.
I'm not saying Milwaukee and Madison aren't (I thought Madison was, and don't know enough about Milwaukee to comment) but it sounds like you don't know much about Minneapolis.
You missed the whole point of my post. I was laughing at the OP placing Milwaukee, Detroit, and Indianapolis in the "Industrial Wasteland" category while simultaneously placing Minneapolis in the "Progressive Meccas" category along with Portland, Seattle, and SF. My point wasn't to say that Minneapolis wasn't a progressive city, just that it wasn't more progressive than Milwaukee.
You missed the whole point of my post. I was laughing at the OP placing Milwaukee, Detroit, and Indianapolis in the "Industrial Wasteland" category while simultaneously placing Minneapolis in the "Progressive Meccas" category along with Portland, Seattle, and SF. My point wasn't to say that Minneapolis wasn't a progressive city, just that it wasn't more progressive than Milwaukee.
Minneapolis may well be on par with progressiveness with Milwaukee. It is on par with Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco. (didn't the OP put Milwaukee in with the Progressive Meccas and not the Industrial Wastelands?)
Group 1 (Well Educated)
Seattle
Boston
NYC
SF
Chicago
Group 2 (Idiots)
Houston
Dallas
Texas Suburbs
Georgia
Most of the south
Group one (important cities to the world)
NYC
LA
Chicago
Houston
SF/SJ
DC
Atlanta
Dallas
Group two (meth infested places which never contributed anything except drugs and overcaffeinated and stressed out folks)
Seattle
Seattle suburbs
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