How would you list the top 10 "big city" feeling cities in order? (building, live)

[Pine to Vine]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

We throw stats and evidence, you throw bad attitude and whining.

Sa wah? Oh, like this:

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

And this thread is not about urban, but what place feels better and the Bay Area most certainly feels bigger than the Philadelphia Area..

. . . he said, stamping his feet and turning red, hoping someone would agree. "It's true, it's true, I tell ya."

Oh and this:

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

London is okay but its not San Francisco.

Seriously, you jumped the shark with that one
Post some more of your purple rorschacks, and tell us you the tea leaves tell ya.

[Pine to Vine]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Word to the Wise: Usually one doesnt imply some sort of intellectual superiority over a person based on their hometown, especially if your own hometown isnt even on the same planet in that regard

You must have mis-interpreted something. I am not implying anything. I am simply saying I feel lucky to live in the city I prefer. I hope the same for you one day.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by jm02

Sa wah? Oh, like this:

. . . he said, stamping his feet and turning red, hoping someone would agree. "It's true, it's true, I tell ya."

Oh and this:


Seriously, you jumped the shark with that one


Post some more of your purple rorschacks, and tell us you the tea leaves tell ya.

Yes, every now and then I allow myself to get sucked into your communal whirlpool of envy and bitterness.

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Yes, but Im trying to test the veracity of your claim, that Philadelphia and environs has 200 contiguous square miles of 10,000+persons-per-square mile neighborhoods.

And so far, I dont see how its possible.

However, I have found some very lovely suburban neighborhoods that are quite nice actually---and very livable.

So despite the sarcasm in my comment, I indeed am pleasantly surprised.

Yes there are many tremendous places to live in the area, some in and some outside the city.

Will give the continuous footprint that is over 10K ppsm in the continuously connected 200 sq mile footprint, it was a pain because I did it by tract not by municipality where the odd shapes (municipalities) depress the extended footprint but yes I had over 200 sq miles and about 2.2 million people. I have the calculation done but need to access a work drive. My laptop was stolen about a month ago and window smashed in my car, oddly on one of the wealthiest streets in all of Philly, actually right here where the Benz is in this image

19th and delancy - Google Maps

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by jm02

You must have mis-interpreted something. I am not implying anything. I am simply saying I feel lucky to live in the city I prefer. I hope the same for you one day.

Sure whatever you say.

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by jm02

Sa wah? Oh, like this:

. . . he said, stamping his feet and turning red, hoping someone would agree. "It's true, it's true, I tell ya."

Oh and this:


Seriously, you jumped the shark with that one


Post some more of your purple rorschacks, and tell us you the tea leaves tell ya.

Love the jump the shark comment - I actually only recently realized the true tie to Happy Days

[dtownboogie]

Originally Posted by Lorielicious

@dtownboogie - Most of those choices are big cities, and I can only speak for Seattle, Miami and Minneapolis in terms of what they "feel like," but Seattle and Miami feel like large cities in places. But Minneapolis? Brb. LOLing forever.


And before you try to counter-snark me, I lived in Mpls for three years. Minneapolis and Mayberry are essentially interchangeable.

Never been to Minneapolis perhaps I should have listed Denver eventhough I've heard it has a small metro for a city of its size.

[Social Network]

1. Los Angeles
2. New York
3. Chicago
4. Bay Area
5. Washington
6. Boston
7. Dallas
8. Houston
9. Miami
10. Atlanta

I don't have much experience in Philadelphia so I cant place it accurately with other cities, I would imagine it to be pretty high on the list though. The city of New York feels way larger than Los Angeles but the metro level is where Los Angeles feels like forever. It's taken me half a day worth of drive to get around and out of Los Angeles before, and that's never been my experience anywhere else.

[Stars&StripesForever]

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by Social Network

I don't have much experience in Philadelphia so I cant place it accurately with other cities, I would imagine it to be pretty high on the list though. The city of New York feels way larger than Los Angeles but the metro level is where Los Angeles feels like forever. It's taken me half a day worth of drive to get around and out of Los Angeles before, and that's never been my experience anywhere else.

I totally agree.

At Metro level, by car Los Angeles does indeed feel like it just goes on forever and ever and ever.