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Why does big government preclude being a big city? Are you saying London, Paris, Rome and Madrid are not big cities because they're capitals?
Paris, London, Rome, and Madrid are, in our collective minds, associated with much, much more than government. I've been to Paris six times, love it. It just occurred to me reading your post that its the capital of France. D.C., on the other hand....
Name one film or TV show that is set in Washington D.C. in which the plot doesn't revolve around the government.
Kind of ironic that you'd knock NYC for annexing a neighboring city (Brooklyn; and that's the only CITY that NY annexed), but you don't knock Pittsburgh for the same thing (Allegheny City, which is now the North Side and the other neighborhoods north of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers).
It's actually not ironic at all. Unless we're saying Allegheny City and Brooklyn are comparable. Brooklyn would be like annexing something between Chicago and Philly into an existing city.
Had Allegheny City not been annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907, it have made no difference whatsoever to the stature of Pittsburgh. If Pittsburgh pulled a Columbus and just started annexing everything to inflate its population, that would be a different story.
Any city in which any part of the transit system operates 24 hours a day, and/or some of the routes operate every 15 minutes or better during most of the day.
This is a necessary but not sufficient condition, because it applies to some places that have special characteristics, e.g. Ocean City, MD, which is a densely packed summer resort area. But it's a useful benchmark.
Paris, London, Rome, and Madrid are, in our collective minds, associated with much, much more than government. I've been to Paris six times, love it. It just occurred to me reading your post that its the capital of France. D.C., on the other hand....
Name one film or TV show that is set in Washington D.C. in which the plot doesn't revolve around the government.
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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Paris, London, Rome, and Madrid are, in our collective minds, associated with much, much more than government. I've been to Paris six times, love it. It just occurred to me reading your post that its the capital of France. D.C., on the other hand....
Name one film or TV show that is set in Washington D.C. in which the plot doesn't revolve around the government.
I'll wait.
Night at the museum feat Nicolas Cage, was not about government.
Captain America
Wonder Woman just shot here three weeks ago.
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It's actually not ironic at all. Unless we're saying Allegheny City and Brooklyn are comparable. Brooklyn would be like annexing something between Chicago and Philly into an existing city.
Had Allegheny City not been annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907, it have made no difference whatsoever to the stature of Pittsburgh. If Pittsburgh pulled a Columbus and just started annexing everything to inflate its population, that would be a different story.
Allegheny City in relation to Pittsburgh WAS comparable to Brooklyn in relation to New York. In the final census (1900) during which Allegheny City existed, it had a population of about 129,000 compared to a population in Pittsburgh of 321,000. In the last census in which Brooklyn existed as an independent city (1890), it had a population of 838,000 compared to a population for NYC of 2,507,000. In both cases, the cities annexed an independent city with a pop about 1/3 of the original city population (give or take).
Night at the museum feat Nicolas Cage, was not about government.
Captain America
Wonder Woman just shot here three weeks ago.
I think you're mixing up Night at the Museum starring Ben Stiller with National Treasure starring Nicholas Cage. The first of which was based in NYC and the second did indeed involve the US Government. It just wasn't the central theme.
Captain America was set in NYC.
Everything I'm reading simply says Wonder Woman 2 will be set in America. No specific area yet.
You're also mixing up where a movie is set with where it is filmed.
name one film or tv show that is set in washington d.c. In which the plot doesn't revolve around the government.
I'll wait.
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