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Use Critical Thinking Proficiency to Ascertain & Postulate the Top 5 Influential Cities in Each Listed Time Zone. Covering the Bulk of North America.
Metric: The TimeZone. A More Cleancut Concise Streamline and Direct Unit of Measurement Less Prone to Arbitrary Interpretation.
For this Activity, Rank The Top Five Influential/Important cities in Time Zone Tiers based upon Tourism, Transportation, Economic, Demographic, Industrial, Institutional and Cultural Indicators of Influence & Significance.
-Secondary cities: Since Some Zones are Sparsely populated and others Densely populated, Secondary Cities are those that are Significantly or at least Marginally Smaller or Less Influential than the top 5.
Select 1 timezone, Your favorite timezones, 3 timezonez, Or All 4 TimeZones
It's Time for TimeZones, Let's have A Timely Debate…
Off the top of my head (US only), forgive me if there are major omissions...
Top 5 in general order of power/influence/importance...
Bold are my favs...
And shout outs to top tier secondary cities...
Eastern TimeZone ( 12 'noon)
New York (by far nationally)
Boston
Washington DC Philadelphia
Miami or Atlanta
(Shout outs to Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Detroit, Indy, Cleveland, Cincinnati)
Central TimeZone (11 a.m) Chicago
Houston
Dallas
Minneapolis
Austin?
(Shout outs to Nashville, San Antonio, Kansas City, New Orleans, St. Louis)
Mountain TimeZone (10 a.m) Phoenix
Denver
Salt Lake City
... drawing a blank?
Pacific TimeZone (9 a.m)
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle San Diego
Las Vegas
Mountain TimeZone (10 a.m) Phoenix
Denver
Salt Lake City
... drawing a blank?
Most of Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time; therefore, one could argue Phoenix is not technically in the Mountain Time Zone. Right now in Denver it's 5:08, and Phoenix is 4:08.
Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, El Paso, and Boise are the top 5 US population centers in the Mountain Time Zone.
Last edited by bluescreen73; 07-28-2023 at 05:57 PM..
Use Critical Thinking Proficiency to Ascertain & Postulate the Top 5 Influential Cities in Each Listed Time Zone. Covering the Bulk of North America.
For this Activity, Rank The Top Five Influential/Important cities in Time Zone Tiers based upon Tourism, Transportation, Economic, Demographic, Industrial, Institutional and Cultural Indicators of Influence & Significance.
-Secondary cities: Since Some Zones are Sparsely populated and others Densely populated, Secondary Cities are those that are Significantly or at least Marginally Smaller or Less Influential than the top 5.
Good exercise, let's see how critically people think...
Eastern TimeZone (12 'noon)
1. New York
2. Washington D.C.
3. Toronto
4. Boston
5. Atlanta
Secondary- Cleveland, Pittsburgh
Favorite- Miami
Central TimeZone (11 a.m)
1. Mexico City
2. Chicago
3. Houston
4. Dallas
5. Monterrey or Guadalajara
Secondary- Austin, Nashville
Favorite- CDMX
Mountain TimeZone (10 a.m)
1. Phoenix
2. Denver
3. Calgary
4. Salt Lake
5. Edmonton
Secondary- Boise
Favorite- Denver
Pacific TimeZone (9 a.m)
1. Los Angeles
2. San Francisco
3. Seattle
4. San Diego
5. Vancouver
Secondary- Tijuana or Sacramento. Portland I wouldn't say is "secondary".
Favorite- SoCal LA
I'm not certain on what's being deemed a secondary city here and might need some help with that definition. Is it just a smaller sized metro, or we're talking secondary like Newark, Fort Lauderdale?
Last edited by the resident09; 07-28-2023 at 06:54 PM..
Good exercise, let's see how critically people think...
Eastern TimeZone (12 'noon)
1. New York
2. Washington D.C.
3. Toronto
4. Boston
5. Atlanta
Favorite- Miami
Central TimeZone (11 a.m)
1. Mexico City
2. Chicago
3. Houston
4. Dallas
5. Monterrey or Guadalajara
Favorite- CDMX
Mountain TimeZone (10 a.m)
1. Phoenix
2. Denver
3. Calgary
4. Salt Lake
5. Edmonton
Favorite- Denver
Pacific TimeZone (9 a.m)
1. Los Angeles
2. San Francisco
3. Seattle
4. San Diego
5. Tijuana
Favorite- SoCal LA
I'm not certain on what's being deemed a secondary city here and might need some help with that definition. Is it just a smaller sized metro, or we're talking secondary like Newark, Fort Lauderdale?
Ahh Good Thinking I Was Wondering would People notice Mexico City and Toronto in the mix
For Secondary city Just A Smaller sized stand alone Metro, At least around 1 million souls, preferably 2 or 3 million but Mountain TimeZone makes that bit difficult, Smaller sized Metro, No Satellite Cities like Ft Lauderdale or Newark
For Mountain TimeZone, Secondary Metros can fall into the 700,000-900,00 to 1 million range
Last edited by BlueRedTide; 07-28-2023 at 06:40 PM..
Good exercise, let's see how critically people think...
Eastern TimeZone (12 'noon)
1. New York
2. Washington D.C.
3. Toronto
4. Boston
5. Atlanta
Favorite- Miami
Central TimeZone (11 a.m)
1. Mexico City
2. Chicago
3. Houston
4. Dallas
5. Monterrey or Guadalajara
Favorite- CDMX
Mountain TimeZone (10 a.m)
1. Phoenix
2. Denver
3. Calgary
4. Salt Lake
5. Edmonton
Favorite- Denver
Pacific TimeZone (9 a.m)
1. Los Angeles
2. San Francisco
3. Seattle
4. San Diego
5. Tijuana
Favorite- SoCal LA
I'm not certain on what's being deemed a secondary city here and might need some help with that definition. Is it just a smaller sized metro, or we're talking secondary like Newark, Fort Lauderdale?
I agree with this list. Perfect and pretty much objective. Miami would be 6th in the east.
I would put it 6th. I see an argument for 5th. I'll give Tijuana a slight edge due to it's relation with SD. However, Vancouver has an argument due to being the slightly larger metro. That's a good debate...in fact, some may pick Vancouver because you can argue that it's more important to Canada than Tijuana is to Mexico.
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Ahh Good Thinking I Was Wondering would People notice Mexico City and Toronto in the mix
For Secondary city Just A Smaller sized stand alone Metro, At least around 1 million souls, preferably 2 or 3 million but Mountain TimeZone makes that bit difficult, Smaller sized Metro, No Satellite Cities like Ft Lauderdale or Newark
For Mountain TimeZone, Secondary Metros can fall into the 700,000-900,00 to 1 million range
Ok gotcha, I would probably go even lower and say max 2.5 million metros. With that I've edited my answers above. I've added Vancouver to the top 5 in the Pacific Time zone. Tijuana, Portland, and Sacramento duke it out for the best secondary's, but those are each close that 2.5 million max threshold that I'd go with. Portland is a hair above it.
With this logic being used above ^ it keeps metros like Baltimore and Charlotte in the East out of the secondary discussions, they both are above 2.5 mil and bigger economies than the chosen CLE and PIT, as an example. Similarly, St. Louis in the Central Time Zone, and Portland in the Pacific are a bit too large for what's being determined as "secondary".
Last edited by the resident09; 07-28-2023 at 07:08 PM..
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I would put it 6th. I see an argument for 5th. I'll give Tijuana a slight edge due to it's relation with SD. However, Vancouver has an argument due to being the slightly larger metro. That's a good debate...in fact, some may pick Vancouver because you can argue that it's more important to Canada than Tijuana is to Mexico.
I've edited my original list. They definitely are 5th and 6th, but I nudged Vancouver ahead of Tijuana, the more I thought of it.
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I Was Wondering would People notice Mexico City and Toronto in the mix 
