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My projection for the next few years. Not written in stone, just how I feel at this moment.
Through 2025:
1 New York
2-tied Bay Area
2-tied Los Angeles
2-tied Washington DC
5-tied Boston
5-tied Chicago
7-tied Dallas
7-tied Houston
7-tied Miami
7-tied Philadelphia
7-tied Seattle
12-tied Detroit
12-tied Minneapolis
12-tied Phoenix
15-tied Charlotte
15-tied Denver
15-tied San Diego
I mostly agree, but I'd move DC and Detroit down one group each and Denver up one group. Also Las Vegas should be in the Denver/Minneapolis/Phoenix group.
You guys are really stretchin it these days to get that 3rd premiere metro out there huh
Not really. SF by itself already has the 4th largest GDP despite being 12th in population. Adding SJ presents only presents the true scope of SF and it's surroundings.
Popka is exaggerating. But Miami is definitely the capital of Latin America. Not every single country in Latin America has its biggest Mecca in Miami but as whole it takes it. It’s as much of a Hispanic Mecca if not more as Atlanta is a black Mecca.
The problem with this analogy is everyone black doesn't view Atlanta as a black mecca. I'll let you guys speak for yourselves, but anecdotally, from outside looking in, there seems to be a wide range of cities Latinos view as cultural meccas, and while Miami may be neat the top I can't say it's the one I hear Latinos most often speak of...
A year later, in this order:
NYC
LA
DC
Bay Area
Chicago
More interchangeable, but my order:
Boston
Dallas
Houston
Atlanta
Philly
Seattle
Tier b:
Miami
Phoenix
Detroit
Honorable mentions:
San Diego
STL
Minneapolis
Denver
Charlotte
Tampa
The Top 5 US cities will be the Top 5 for the foreseeable future. Nothing is impending anywhere else that will eliminate either of those 5 places. Order is debatable but here's mine:
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Washington
San Francisco/Bay Area
The "Next Seven" are just as interchangeable, and there is no city really threatening any city in this group from being pushed out. My order:
Boston
Houston
Atlanta
Dallas
Philadelphia
Miami
Seattle
I think the rest of what I consider "America's Top 25" are all closer to each other from top to bottom, than any city of the group is to threatening the next tier of Seattle and up cities. I also think this group has the strongest case of interchangeable parts, and whichever cities you consider near the bottom of the list are very much threatened by a group of cities that aren't "Top 25" but are on the cusp, so we'll see how this next decade aligns everyone. Here's my best of the rest:
Phoenix
Detroit
MSP
San Diego
Denver
Charlotte
Portland
Baltimore
Austin
St Louis
Pittsburgh
Orlando
Tampa
There's about nine cities give or take that are close enough to Top 25 status that you could make an argument for either to replace someone that is in. Listed only in order of population, not in the order I'd rank them: SA, Sac, LV, Cincy, KC, C'bus, Indy, Cleveland, Nashville...
So by my count, starting the 2020s our Top 25 consists of (8)Southern cities, (7)Western cities, (6)Northeastern cities, and (4)Midwestern cities.....if I add in the nine "on the cusp" cities, that makes (10)Southern, (9)Western, (9)Midwestern, and (6)Northeastern cities...
Not really. SF by itself already has the 4th largest GDP despite being 12th in population. Adding SJ presents only presents the true scope of SF and it's surroundings.
I meant the Seattle metro should still be in it's own tier.
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