Most worldly city/metro between SF (Bay Area), DC (DMV), Miami (South Fla), Houston

[Charlotte485]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

THis is tough. In Latin America? Hands down Miami.. Miami is probably the most popular American city to Latin America anyway.

But outside Latin America? Maybe San Francisco followed closely by DC. Especially in Asia do you see SF grow in popularity the way Boston is prominent to Europe.

So my list goes:

1. SF (Most popular in Asia)
2. DC
3. Miami (Most Popular in Latin America)
4. Houston

100% this.

I feel like DC isn't as obvious, visually, of a worldly place but from my experience, it seems like a huge melting pot. Over 40% of the Foreign born population is white and 22% are black as of 2011 with several of DC's 8 wards being near 20% foreign born (also as of 2011. It's not so easy finding demographics that don't break down based on color). Also, because the foreign born seems to be rather dispersed and not a dominate region of foreign born, there's no concentration to create a strong identity like Asian/Latin culture has on Miami and San Francisco. Of course, Latin countries vary but they are unified by common famous people or movies and such and cultural rivalries and similarities.

In the US, it seems people think of cultural as darker skinned Latino/Asian and it seems really hard for people to think outside of whether one is black, white, latino or asian (there is even the "Non-Hispanic White" on demographic cards lol). Latin people have predominately White countries, Black Countries, Mixed countries, indigenous countries. If people were to just go to DC, they might think it's not so cultural or so diverse because unless you interact and realize this person is from Nigeria, or that one is from the Ukraine, etc. people will just think of it as a "white person" or "black person" rather than knowing they too are just as diverse as a typical Asian or non-white Latino.

But I'd def. say SFO / DC / MIA / Houston. I might even tie DC with Miami.

[mwalker96]

Sam Francisco would take my vote with Slicon Valley, the extreme leftist politics, the for-runner of LGBTQ acceptance, and the word hella being used by almost every Anerican teenager takes the cake for me. Miami is pretty worldly tho especially compared to the rest of the southeast.

[tion91]

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[popka]

Miami has the highest foreign born percentage of any large city in the entire world at 58% The next city ranked is Toronto at 47%. Hialeah (right outside of Miami) has an even higher percentage at 74%, which is probably the highest in the world. San Francisco is at 34%, Houston 28% and D.C. at 12%

Miami also gets almost three times as many international tourists (only behind NYC) as San Francisco and almost four times as many as D.C. and Houston.

I know these things aren't all that factor into this discussion but you cant say those numbers for Miami aren't pretty staggering.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by popka

Miami has the highest foreign born percentage of any large city in the entire world at 58% The next city ranked is Toronto at 47%. Hialeah (right outside of Miami) has an even higher percentage at 74%, which is probably the highest in the world. San Francisco is at 34%, Houston 28% and D.C. at 12%
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I believe Toronto is just over 50% foreign-born now. Vancouver is just under 50% foreign-born. Neither is close to Miami at this point though.

[the resident09]

Originally Posted by popka

Miami has the highest foreign born percentage of any large city in the entire world at 58% The next city ranked is Toronto at 47%. Hialeah (right outside of Miami) has an even higher percentage at 74%, which is probably the highest in the world. San Francisco is at 34%, Houston 28% and D.C. at 12%

Miami also gets almost three times as many international tourists (only behind NYC) as San Francisco and almost four times as many as D.C. and Houston.

I know these things aren't all that factor into this discussion but you cant say those numbers for Miami aren't pretty staggering.

2017 Foreign born population by percentage MSA

Miami: 41.03%
Los Angeles: 33.27%
San Francisco: 31.33%
New York: 29.17%
Houston: 23.63%
Washington D.C.: 23.09%