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I'm sorry, I should know better than to omit those numbers because these things get awfully confusing sometimes.
Mine are Combined Statistical Area figures for 2007.
I compared them to 2007 stats I found for various urban areas/regions in other parts of the world. My list is not really a ranking because I only included some foreign places-not all.
Im sure Mexico City, Sao Paulo, perhaps Seoul and definitely Osaka would rank high if I included them.
Ah, so. Do you know where to get current [SIZE=2] "UN urban agglomeration definitions and population estimates" so that a comparable international list could be made?
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Atlanta, Houston and Miami would round out the list. Ooooh, I forgot, this is city-data. The fact that 5 of the 20 richest cities in the world are in the Sunbelt, with 4 of them in the South alone, would destroy some people's worlds.
It's not a guess. Follow the link in the original post:
1 Tokyo Japan $ 1191 Yes
2 New York City USA $ 1133 No
3 Los Angeles USA $ 639 No
4 Chicago USA $ 460 No
5 Paris France $ 460 Yes
6 London UK $ 452 Yes
7 Osaka Japan $ 341 No
8 Mexico City Mexico $ 315 Yes
9 Philadelphia USA $ 312 No
10 Washington DC USA $ 299 Yes
11 Boston USA $ 290 No
12 Dallas USA $ 268 No
13 Buenos Aires Argentina $ 245 Yes
14 Hong Kong Hong Kong $ 244 Yes
15 San Francisco USA $ 242 No
16 Atlanta USA $ 236 No
17 Houston USA $ 235 No
18 Miami USA $ 231 No
19 São Paulo Brazil $ 225 No
20 Seoul
If it's too much, here are the American cities in the top 20 broken down by region:
Northeast: 3
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Midatlantic:
Washington, D.C.
Midwest:
Chicago
West:
Los Angeles
San Francisco
South:
Dallas
Atlanta
Houston
Miami
Notice something?
Hmm, the south has 4. The sunbelt has 5(including LA of course). But just doing top 15, the South has 1, and the sunbelt 2. I agree with you about that bias against the sunbelt.
Dallas is 4 hours from Houston.........Huntsville is only about an hour. Do you live in Texas? First you say PV isn't a Houston school, now Huntsville is 4 hours from Houston???
Huntville isnt 4 hours it is about an hour I was being sarcastic. I really could careless what you think buddy. Like I said before PV is not in Houston metro. Maybe extended metro Houston. I am in College Station is that also part of Houston metro? Houston metro sure goes a long way. I didnt realize how much farmland and cotton fields where located in Houston.
Tokyo doesn't have the level of crippling poverty and income disparity that NYC does--but it sure feels good to be one of the multimillionaires of the city.
NYC has crippling poverty?? Where?
The South Bronx has a higher median income than half of Europe. The U.S. does not have developing-world style poverty anywhere.
And poor NYC residents have 100% free health care, virtually free housing, food stamps, and welfare with no time limit (the federal welfare has a time limit, but NY State steps in indefinitely after the time limit).
NYC is the only city in the U.S. with a legal guarantee of housing. If you cannot afford housing, the city is required by law to provide it for you.
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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
Also, I wonder what this list does with a binational metro like San Diego/Tijuana or the various Eurodistricts.
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Well, it quite likely wouldn't consider them, because they are in entirely separate countries.
And how on earth could Tijuana's economy be grouped with San Diego's?
They are separated by the second most highly militarized border on earth, and 95% of people on the Southern side cannot legally travel to the Northern side.
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