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Which one of these three is a Madagascan fisherman likely to have heard of? That should be the question lol
I'd go with none of them ... but at a push Seattle.
Houston's profile outside of the States is almost non existent. I could be wrong here but I can't think of how or why it's even close to "world class" status ?
Prove your assertion that Atlanta was 'overwhelmed' by the Olympics. I was there, and they were doing a consistently good job of moving people around. If you wanted to see an example of a city that failed at providing adequate infrastructure during the Olympics, I'll cite Athens, which you have on your list as a superior candidate. It also closed out the Olympics with a 10M profit; how many other Olympic cities have bragging rights to that?
BTW, Atlanta's MSA comes in at right about 5.5M, about the same (as your asserted) size as Athens and larger than Sydney. In fact in Europe it looks like only the London and Paris metros are larger. And most sources I looked at put the Athens population at about 3.4M.
Boston has an MSA of 4.6M.
I am not putting Atlanta down, I dont consider any american city to be world class when you compare it to most of the first world. The only reason cities like nyc ( ie a certain area of manhattan) are lumped in as world class is because of American wealth and its our center for finance and media, its really very third rate public transit and infrastructure ,etc
Compare getting off at a tokyo or seoul or singapore a swiss and so many Europeans airport with getting off at laguardia or jfk, the clean and efficient mass transit , no thugs and mentally ill people and homeless everywhere .
Laguardia doesnt even have trains into the city. The last time I landed in a small city like copenhagen there was trains to take into copenhagen and all over europe, so many european airports always have great mass transit into the city. you end up trying to hail a cab or uber at laguardia to get into nyc
They should just have a permanent olympic site in asia like singapore or europe like barcelona or switzerland, no american city is really world class
You know as much as you say people dislike Austin or Texans are jealous of Austin, I have never seen you say anything positive regarding Houston. Just say you don't like the city and be done with it.
Which one of these three is a Madagascan fisherman likely to have heard of? That should be the question lol
I'd go with none of them ... but at a push Seattle.
Houston's profile outside of the States is almost non existent. I could be wrong here but I can't think of how or why it's even close to "world class" status ?
There are issues with trying to build a true s-bahn in the US. The first is redundancy. Most of the city stops are already covered by rapid transit. The second is workforce. I'm not sure if Boston has a railroad union, but it would probably fight the workforce reduction required. Suburban rail stations would also have to be retro-fitted. These aspects have hamstrung Philly which has had s-bahn infrastructure since the 80's.
It's a bit different for Boston because its has some commuter rail lines that are in dense urban parts which don't parallel the subways as closely and the tunnel and an intermedate station means it offers itself as an important transfer link to other existing rapid transit lines.
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I am not putting Atlanta down, I dont consider any american city to be world class when you compare it to most of the first world. The only reason cities like nyc ( ie a certain area of manhattan) are lumped in as world class is because of American wealth and its our center for finance and media, its really very third rate public transit and infrastructure ,etc
Compare getting off at a tokyo or seoul or singapore a swiss and so many Europeans airport with getting off at laguardia or jfk, the clean and efficient mass transit , no thugs and mentally ill people and homeless everywhere .
Laguardia doesnt even have trains into the city. The last time I landed in a small city like copenhagen there was trains to take into copenhagen and all over europe, so many european airports always have great mass transit into the city. you end up trying to hail a cab or uber at laguardia to get into nyc
They should just have a permanent olympic site in asia like singapore or europe like barcelona or switzerland, no american city is really world class
frankfurt airport and train station
laguardia
Not sure why you quoted me, as you do not address my retort in any way.
You know as much as you say people dislike Austin or Texans are jealous of Austin, I have never seen you say anything positive regarding Houston. Just say you don't like the city and be done with it.
Boston and Seattle are regional primate cities. Boston is overhyped since it is in the East Coast megalopolis by the East Coast media. If not for being on the East Coast, Boston and New England, it would be a cultural and economic backwater like the Rust Belt in the Upper Midwest with its closed factories. The media prefer the West Coast over the South, so Houston gets the short end of the stick. But Seattle is in a empty part of the West Coast, the Pacific Northwest, since California is the population/economic magnet.
Pretty much every person from Houston on here has said:
1) Houston is more world class than Seattle but not as world class as Boston.
2) There are elements of Houston that are world class but its not a fully world class city.
Seeing as how those statements are both true, I dont see what the hell your problem is.
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Boston and Seattle are regional primate cities. Boston is overhyped since it is in the East Coast megalopolis by the East Coast media. If not for being on the East Coast, Boston and New England, it would be a cultural and economic backwater like the Rust Belt in the Upper Midwest with its closed factories. The media prefer the West Coast over the South, so Houston gets the short end of the stick. But Seattle is in a empty part of the West Coast, the Pacific Northwest, since California is the population/economic magnet.
I lived in Seattle, and I can tell you that it's not exactly an outpost. There are some amazing things to see and do within a 2-3 hour drive. Portland, Seattle,Vancouver, Victoria, the Cascades, the Olympics, countless beautiful resort towns; what does Houston have within that radius? I'd actually really like to know.
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