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Ebck120, Philly is in the region called the NY metro. After all, it's the same distance.
Yes I know that, but I don't get your point. You were making sure everyone knew that San Jose and San Francisco are two different cities and I replied, duh!
When people think of American cities, these the ones that are thought of or brought up the most?
No particular order:
-New York City (Largest city)
-Los Angeles
-Chicago
-Washington, D.C. (Nation's Capital)
-Miami or Atlanta
Agree or disagree
I'd order as follows:
NYC (largest/most diverse)
LA (entertainment)
DC (government)
Chicago (size/location)
Detroit (decay)
I don't include Detroit as a slam on the Motor City, but because it's the city that gets mentioned most often in any discussion of US cities that have struggled and lost population.
I stand by what I said when I said Boulder and Ann Arbor have better downtowns than Philly. I've been to those places, and I know what I'm talking about. Philadelphia is very similar to San Jose but San Jose is more important because it's the capital of Silicon Valley and has a better and cleaner downtown. Philly just recently embarked on the airport expansion while San Jose finished its airport. San Jose is ahead of Philly in just about everything you can think of, and Phillies2011, if you were in SJ, you'd know what I'm talking about. I'll give some examples that SJ is ahead of Philly: downtown revitalization, airport modernization, museums expansion and improvement, newly updated city hall, new library and etc. Philly is only talking about doing them and taking its time. Guess what you need a new city hall and new library. The Franklin Science museum needs upgades and I can go on and on. The point is San Jose America Made? Jury is out. The same goes for SF.
You need to consider the high tech capital of the world and SF gets absolutely no credit since NY gets no credits for what's going on in Philly, IMO!
San Jose is more important because it has a cleaner downtown. if thats your argument then you basically just gave the win to philly as far as importance goes.
people from san fran, just ignore durf. he's a troll or delusional. he's always trolling on threads and trying to make people think that san jose is the best city in the world.
don't worry about, no one who is in touch with reality thinks that san jose is the most important city in the bay area. please. it's not even the second most important.
same goes to people from philly getting worked up.
durf trolls on philly like it's his job.
just recently he claimed that santa cruz, ann arbor, and boulder all had better downtowns than philadelphia....
so yea it's probably best if everyone just ignores him.
I agree 100%, Durf does the same thing on other threads, he goes out of his way to put down Philadelphia.
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