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3. Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA $533.542 Billion
Baltimore-Towson, MD Metro Area $133,012
Lexington Park, MD Micro Area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area $395,747
Winchester, VA-WV Metro Area $4,783
4. Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA $526.895 Billion
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metro Area $520,672
Kankakee-Bradley, IL Metro Area $3,094
Michigan City-La Porte, IN Metro Area $3,336
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA $508.418 Billion
Napa, CA Metro Area $7,434
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area $310,825
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area $146,687
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA Metro Area $9,903
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA Metro Area $20,229
Vallejo-Fairfield, CA Metro Area $13,340
Furthermore, when it comes to being a magnet for the world like NY, London and Paris, The Bay Area has a higher percentage of foreign born residents than all three. And while the Bay Area is the 6th largest CSA is population, it is 3rd when it comes to foreign born residents behind NY and LA.
Furthermore, like NY, the Bay Area has a very high percentage of highly educated and wealthy foreign born residents.
Furthermore, San Francisco is one of the 2 or 3 most highly regarded US Cities in the world-definitely more iconic than basically every city except New York and possibly Washington or LA.
There are plenty of things we can talk about and we have miles and miles of stats to back up every last thing we say.
But we don't even need to do that cause we've done it already dozens of times.
The burden of proving anything is not on us. Its on them.
No, the burden is back on you. Once again you have posted a bunch of official looking figures with absolutely no way of checking their validity. No links, no attachments of any kind, just your word. My numbers came from PWC, same as Rhymes With Best Coast. He decided to post an alternative ranking rather than the actual ranking, which used U.N. metro estimates. Didn't you find it odd that NYC had a larger GDP than Tokyo?
Once again you have posted a bunch of official looking figures with absolutely no way of checking their validity. No links, no attachments of any kind, just your word.
You can go straight to the bea.gov website and add up the GDPs of the MSAs for each CSA.
And you've already been told that several times so please quit with the pretense.
This is what the US Commerce Dept reports for 2008.
3. Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA $533.542 Billion Baltimore-Towson, MD Metro Area $133,012
Lexington Park, MD Micro Area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area $395,747
Winchester, VA-WV Metro Area $4,783
4. Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA $526.895 Billion
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metro Area $520,672
Kankakee-Bradley, IL Metro Area $3,094
Michigan City-La Porte, IN Metro Area $3,336
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA $508.418 Billion
Napa, CA Metro Area $7,434
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area $310,825
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area $146,687
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA Metro Area $9,903
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA Metro Area $20,229
Vallejo-Fairfield, CA Metro Area $13,340
None of them in the U.S. has the vast scope of New York.
The closest in urban density is San Fran
The closest in terms of architecture is Chicago
The closest in food options is L.A. or Chicago
The closest in vibrancy? Las Vegas?
The closest in national notoriety? L.A. or San Fran
The closest in terms of nightlife? L.A. or Miami
You can go straight to the bea.gov website and add up the GDPs of the MSAs for each CSA.
And you've already been told that several times so please quit with the pretense.
This is what the US Commerce Dept reports for 2008.
3. Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA $533.542 Billion
Baltimore-Towson, MD Metro Area $133,012
Lexington Park, MD Micro Area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area $395,747
Winchester, VA-WV Metro Area $4,783
4. Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA $526.895 Billion
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metro Area $520,672
Kankakee-Bradley, IL Metro Area $3,094
Michigan City-La Porte, IN Metro Area $3,336
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA $508.418 Billion
Napa, CA Metro Area $7,434
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area $310,825
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area $146,687
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA Metro Area $9,903
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA Metro Area $20,229
Vallejo-Fairfield, CA Metro Area $13,340
Having trouble finding the right city that would compare with New York City with excitment, arts, transportation, etc. Any ideas as what city in the US compare come close?
That is because there is no city in the US that stacks up well against a global city like New York. In order to find places that can compete with New York, you would have to travel outside the US to cities like London, Paris and Tokyo. Those three cities really are the only cities that can compete with New York.
Take away Manhattan, and compare the rest of the boroughs to other cities.
That is one of the stupidest things to say. If you do that then you have to take the Loop out of Chicago, Hollywood out of LA, Miami Beach out of Miami, etc.
Plus you do know Queens is the most diverse county, do you? And Brooklyn has more people than Manhattan. Manhattan is about 1/8th of the city population wise, there is plenty going on in the boroughs like the Yankees, Mets, soon Nets, food, nightlife, diversity, parks, Coney Island, the real Little Italy is in the Bronx, Brighton Beach (like a little Russia), Astoria (Greek), and all of those boroughs are more urban than the most urban cities in the country (with the exception of Staten Island, which probably still comes close to the density of other cities).
That is one of the stupidest things to say. If you do that then you have to take the Loop out of Chicago, Hollywood out of LA, Miami Beach out of Miami, etc.
Plus you do know Queens is the most diverse county, do you? And Brooklyn has more people than Manhattan. Manhattan is about 1/8th of the city population wise, there is plenty going on in the boroughs like the Yankees, Mets, soon Nets, food, nightlife, diversity, parks, Coney Island, the real Little Italy is in the Bronx, Brighton Beach (like a little Russia), Astoria (Greek), and all of those boroughs are more urban than the most urban cities in the country (with the exception of Staten Island, which probably still comes close to the density of other cities).
I agree, taking Manhattan away is such a stupid thing to say. Why would anyone take away New York's prized borough? If you do that, why not take away Chicago's Loop away from Chicago?
If you compare areas outside of the central business district, New York still has the most interesting neighborhoods. I would say Los Angeles would rank up there as well and Miami too (South Beach)
I agree, taking Manhattan away is such a stupid thing to say. Why would anyone take away New York's prized borough? If you do that, why not take away Chicago's Loop away from Chicago?
If you compare areas outside of the central business district, New York still has the most interesting neighborhoods. I would say Los Angeles would rank up there as well and Miami too (South Beach)
brooklyn & queens have more going on than 90% of the big u.s. cities...
seriously
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