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Dallas and ATL worth more than SF. I learned something today
That number is derived from half the actual metro. Add San Jose, and the Bay Area is on par with the output from London, Paris, and Chicago despite having far less people.
That number is derived from half the actual metro. Add San Jose, and the Bay Area is on par with the output from London, Paris, and Chicago despite having far less people.
If it weren't for the entertainment business, Los Angeles would be Phoenix with beaches.
LOL, that's such an ignorant statement I don't even know where to begin... from Wikipedia (sources provided on Wikipedia as well):
"The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) has a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of $831 billion (as of 2008), making it the third largest economic center in the world, after the Greater Tokyo Area and the New York-Newark-Bridgeport CSA. If counted as a country, the surrounding CSA has the 15th largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, placing it just below Australia and above the Netherlands, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, and Indonesia."
You think Phoenix is a close fourth behind NYC, Tokyo, and LA? It helps that LA has one of the busiest ports in the world... last time I checked Phoenix was landlocked.
I'm talking population. NYC has 22 million in its metro, LA has 18 million, London has 13 million, Paris has 10 million, Tokyo has 33 million, Mexico D.F. has 25 million, and São Paolo has 20 million.
For the record, that's really an apples to oranges comparison. LA is sprawled on an area much larger than Paris, London et al. Even though LA has a larger metro pop., it feels small -- at least in urbanity-- to Paris and London, and for that matter, Chicago. Chicago actually seems much bigger than LA as far as urban core, amentities, infrastructure (except highways), etc. LA is a region, it's not a city.
For the record, that's really an apples to oranges comparison. LA is sprawled on an area much larger than Paris, London et al. Even though LA has a larger metro pop., it feels small -- at least in urbanity-- to Paris and London, and for that matter, Chicago. Chicago actually seems much bigger than LA as far as urban core, amentities, infrastructure (except highways), etc. LA is a region, it's not a city.
LA is a city in every respect, it just looks and feels much different to people because it was the first major city to come of age in the time of the automobile(an understated revolutionary change).
Once a more effecient mode of transportation is created in the distant future cities will be even larger and more sprawled out, and even make LA(as we know it) look antiquated.
"Feminized"? "Disneyfied"? "Urban themed amusement park"? 10M very REAL people live in this amusement park, from the richest to the poorest. Most of them working class, even if it means 300K a year or a few millions a year.
What's up with this communist propaganda?
That number is derived from half the actual metro. Add San Jose, and the Bay Area is on par with the output from London, Paris, and Chicago despite having far less people.
LA is a city in every respect, it just looks and feels much different to people because it was the first major city to come of age in the time of the automobile(an understated revolutionary change).
Once a more effecient mode of transportation is created in the distant future cities will be even larger and more sprawled out, and even make LA(as we know it) look antiquated.
driving is the new walking.
fair enough. I just callibrate on a more urban tangent. Agree that LA is a different animal. I don't like the quote "driving is the new walking".
GDP rank (using City Estimated Components of estimated GDP) UN data in GDP in 2005 Population GDP per capita (brackets) ($bn at PPPs) (millions) ($k at PPPs)
1 New York 1325 21.9 60.5
2 Tokyo 1157 34.2 33.8
3 Los Angeles 934 18 51.9
4 London 638 12 53.2
5 Washington DC* 575 8.15 70.6
6 San Francisco/Oakland 518 7.25 71.4
7 Chicago 510 9.75 52.3
8 Osaka/Kobe 508 16.8 30.2
9 Seoul 503 22.3 22.6
10 Paris 466 9.95 46.8
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