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I'd go with Chicago. Similar regional dominance and similar relatively low global importance. I wouldn't use NYC because it's a global city.
As a Patriots fan, I'd say Seattle and the Malcolm Butler goal line interception is most like Atlanta.
Atlanta is not similar to Chicago when it comes to global importance. Chicago is definitely a global city. Albeit low to mid tier compared to LA and NYC. Atlanta on the other hand is barely a global city if that. Chicago is at least top 3 in the US when it comes to global importance, while Atlanta probably top 10.
I guess I read the OP differently than others. I looked at it like those old logic statements. Atlanta is to the South as [blank] is to the North. In that instance, for most of the South, I'd say New York. It's the massive standard which Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago look towards. Atlanta takes that role by and large. Birmingham, Nashville, Charlotte, are all using Atlanta as the benchmark.
Obviously Atlanta is not quite the same, and Texas/South Florida/DC kind of box Atlanta in ways New York doesn't have just due to sheer size. But Atlanta is the unofficial capital down here.
I work in the travel industry. I promise you Chicago is not low in global importance.
"Global importance" is a pretty broad metric--I'm not entirely sure what that means. But if we are talking about foreign travel Chicago consistently ranks 9th or 10th among US cities in terms of international visitors, which is roughly equal to Boston. Atlanta is usually around 12th or 13th. Take from that whatever you want, but Chicago is obviously in a different tier than LA/SF/DC/NYC when it comes to travel, and I'd say "global importance," too. Whether Atlanta belongs in the same tier as Boston and Chicago is debatable, but it is actually pretty close and is probably closer to Chicago than Chicago is to NYC or LA.
I’ll see if you respond to this, which I doubt you will……letting people know your comment is baseless and isn’t based on any objective facts!
I'm sorry but any "objective global index" that places Chicago equal to Singapore and higher than Sydney, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Washington DC, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Bangkok, Mexico City, and Seoul is an absolute joke. Absolutely nobody believes that Chicago is the 8th most important city in the world outside of some dudes from Iowa who just moved to Chicago and think it's The Greatest City In World History, Bro. Chicago is one of America's most important cities and it is a major economic and transportation hub for North America. But if we are going to start comparing it to Paris and London then we are in Lori Lightfoot propaganda land and not reality. Do you really think people in Paris consider Chicago, Illinois a peer city? Come on.
I'm sorry but any "objective global index" that places Chicago equal to Singapore and higher than Sydney, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Washington DC, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Bangkok, Mexico City, and Seoul is an absolute joke. Absolutely nobody believes that Chicago is the 8th most important city in the world outside of some dudes from Iowa who just moved to Chicago and think it's The Greatest City In World History, Bro. Chicago is one of America's most important cities and it is a major economic and transportation hub for North America. But if we are going to start comparing it to Paris and London then we are in Lori Lightfoot propaganda land and not reality. Do you really think people in Paris consider Chicago, Illinois a peer city? Come on.
Chicago is closer in prominence to those cities listed than Atlanta. Everyone has heard of the “Chicago deep dish”, the “Chicago dog”, “Al Capone”, and the “Sears tower”. Atlanta held the olympics, that’s cool, but that’s not too notable outside of Atlanta and parts of the US. Atlanta has soul food, but it’s nothing entirely distinct from other soul food dishes from other parts of the south. Atlanta has Coca Cola and Southern style rap which is probably the most important parts about Atlanta. The aquarium? Cool most major cities have one. When it comes to international prominence Chicago outclasses Atlanta.
I'm sorry but any "objective global index" that places Chicago equal to Singapore and higher than Sydney, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Washington DC, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Bangkok, Mexico City, and Seoul is an absolute joke. Absolutely nobody believes that Chicago is the 8th most important city in the world outside of some dudes from Iowa who just moved to Chicago and think it's The Greatest City In World History, Bro. Chicago is one of America's most important cities and it is a major economic and transportation hub for North America. But if we are going to start comparing it to Paris and London then we are in Lori Lightfoot propaganda land and not reality. Do you really think people in Paris consider Chicago, Illinois a peer city? Come on.
I did not bother reading your rambling because it is subjective, Bro. Kearney is a global consulting firm, and I will take their “objective” ranking over your subjective rambling any day Bro. Provide me an objective ranking that backs up your point and I will actually read it.
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