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No one calls Mark Twain "Sam Langhorn Clemens". It is actually Samuel Langhorne Clemens if you want to be all technical about it. You call him Sam like he's your best friend. I learned his birth name in school but it was always Samuel Clemens, the unnecessary middle name and Sam made it seem like a different person.
Now continue on with what is the next great US city and I will repeat "Sam Langhorn Clemens" a thousand times and maybe I can learn this unnecessary and slightly wrong fact aswell.
Wondering if one of the cities that were leaders in the previous century make a resurgence?
I think cities such as CLEVELAND can potentially return to a level of previously held prominence - especially if the present renaissance and redevelopment momentum continues for many years to come ... Even Detroit has some potential of recapturing some of its past prominence.
I've never been to Cleveland. Detroit is an interesting town. Hard for me to see anyone still Chicago's shine. Minneapolis seems to be that region's new darling. I hear people talk about two places that sort of dominate their metro region but don't get discussed with the usual big 5, Boston and Seattle. Love to hear some thoughts on those two.
Many people have said that Houston is on the verge of challenging the top 5 cities. Others have said that Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Denver and Miami all have the infrastructure and geographical location to make a surge in the near future. I'm looking at the following criteria to gauge upward mobility:
Currently a 4th or 5th tier city
Supports growth industries (alternative energy, technology, healthcare, etc)
Desire to want to be bigger and better
Signature job market (government, IT, petroleum, seaport)
User friendly geographical location
I personally like the places that I mentioned. I would be open to include San Diego, Minneapolis and Austin (or New Orleans).
1st tier - NY
2nd tier - LA, Chicago
How can I break this to you " Houston " Dallas " Miami " Atlanta are top World Cities...Seattle " Minneapolis/St. Paul " Denver " are all Up And Coming Cities , and will join them in 10 to 20 years.
Lived in Atlanta. Hard for me to sign off on that. However, I'm interested in hearing why Seattle or Miami.
Atlanta and Miami are already ALPHA WORLD CLASS cities as far as
, connectivity.....Seattle , Minneapolis . Denver are BEKA WORLD CLASS
I know that the Global World Class Cities Ranking can sometimes be a JOKE , but it is what it is.
I camt argue with rankings. However, after just leaving downtown Atlanta after four yrs, I definitely question rankings much more.
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