You know you're in a big city when... (neighborhood, high school)

[HtownLove]

when you pass one person speaking a foreign language then pass two more speaking another language and then another speaking a third.

[Georgiafrog]

You know you're in a big city when:

You drive from your own small city into a big one.

[west336]

......when you see row houses and mid-sized apartment buildings and grit and grime......and you're still 25 miles away from downtown (I'm thinking Chicago in this example).

[kidphilly]

when this is New Years Day and not Eve


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMEeT...ger_r2-2r-1-HM

[TMR23]

When know ur in a big city when: Saturday night and Monday morning has the same amount of activity downtown.

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

when you pass one person speaking a foreign language then pass two more speaking another language and then another speaking a third.

That's Miami Beach and it only has 87,000 people. But, it has millions and millions of visitors each year.

[CurlyFries]

When you're stressed more often than you are bored

[Chriscross309]

when walk down some steps under the sidewalk wanting to find the subway station, but instead find a McDonalds or Starbucks

[eek]

Originally Posted by OrlFlaUsa

You have to brag about it on City-Data and act like mid-sized metros are the boonies.

Originally Posted by annie_himself

You finally get to brag on CD about how great your port is and how busy the airport is.

when you log onto CD and see ppl from cities without an identity show their inferiority complex by posting in a thread such as this one to try to make fun of ppl from cities that are larger than their own and you "smile inside."

anyway...

when your city has two baseball teams, two football teams, a hockey team, and an nba team...and is about to get another nba team.

[citylove101]

you know you're in a big city when:

you can find a drug store with a pharmacy that's open 24/7

you can get food, beside pizza, delivered to your house

there are always somes stores open on Christmas

you dont see high school sports coverage on the local tv news

you can hail a taxi on the street instead of calling one up

theres more than one good place to go hear jazz