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New York - because its New York. What more can I say.
Los Angeles - because I love it.
Miami - because its my hometown and all my family lives here.
San Francisco - just 'cause.
I only picked 4 by mistake :/ but my 5th city would've likely been Chicago.
It's an impossible request. A city is it's residents. Buildings, history, all that clap trap are just a few pieces of a skeleton. A population is what makes a city a living entity. They are the brain, the heart, the soul.
Well pardon me all to hell. Complain to the one who started the thread and instructed you all to ignore the number of people a city has. He/she wasn't referring to the people individually just the number of them in each place. Proves you barely even read the instructions.
Ignoring population.... assuming all of the cities would have the same population...same racial demographics, same literacy rate, same wealth, same crime rate, same number of jobs, same number of universities all of which had the same HIGH ranking?
I kept the doomsday scenario vague because I didn't want to create a situation where people would try to figure out a way to stop the doomsday scenario from occurring (This isn't 24). It's a poll and it only works if people actually vote. So all of you who opted to try to save every city, well it didn't work and everyone was destroyed. Sorry.
I would save them all except LA SD Miami Phoenix and Vegas. These places exemplify all that is wrong in the country, greed promiscuity and porn, unsustainability (water ) pollution and a genuine attitude of noncaring that sucks the life out of the good people who do live there.
Denver, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Seattle, and San Diego. If there was a chance to start a new post-doomsday nation, I would rather reserve five of the most progressive cities in order to promote a fresh new start. However, if there were more cities I could preserve, I would also add Las Vegas, San Francisco, Portland, San Antonio, as well as Manhattan and the Northern VA part of the DC area.
I don't follow instructions when I'm being instructed to do something I would never do. Not unless someone is paying me a helluva big bribe.
But you know what? This question had possibilities right up until the point when it became just another popularity poll. A question that deals with the logistics and practical considerations of how cities would handle disasters... now that's actually interesting. I wish that's what this thread had been.
As for popularity polls? I don't know why you guys find them endlessly amusing. Bickering about "my city is more popular than your city" is bo-o-ring. Frankly, I outgrew those after I graduated from high school, and didn't have to vote for a prom queen anymore.
Naturally, New York was my first pick b/c it's basically America's flagship city
A 'flagship' city is an entity that represents the country, or the rest of the cities on the whole. There are no cities that represent the other cities of this country. There are no 'flagship' or primate cities in America. That's the beauty of this country.
I picked Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. I really hated leaving out New Orleans and Chicago. These don't represent my favorite cities, I chose them based on historic value and the icon they represent to the rest of the country and the world. If we lost one of these, I think we would bounce back. Losing all five would really injure the American spirit and totally disrupt our way of life.
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