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Pretty much all I'm getting out of this argument is that NYC is an absolute beast in virtually all categories and the Bay Area pushes well above its weight economically.
Chicago really should get some friends. Like a super powerful Detroit or something would be nice. The Twin Cities are kind of coming along, right?
Pretty much all I'm getting out of this argument is that NYC is an absolute beast in virtually all categories and the Bay Area pushes well above its weight economically.
Pretty much.
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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
Chicago really should get some friends. Like a super powerful Detroit or something would be nice. The Twin Cities are kind of coming along, right?
Chicago really should get some friends. Like a super powerful Detroit or something would be nice. The Twin Cities are kind of coming along, right?
That's the thing, I think most Americans are rooting for a Detroit comeback. I know I am, I always find myself hoping that it turns into the next "it" spot and reinvents itself. It's a place with about 6 million people when Windsor is factored in. Just imagine the potential of a place with architecture in a unique condition like that come back to life. Not to mention one of the worlds leading transnational trade posts and along the NAFTA corridor.
I've always said that Los Angeles & Detroit in the 21st century could swap their niche industries and thrive off of it. Los Angeles can make the automobile industry so much more powerful by being based on the west coast where its the largest port and China is the largest buyer of American cars outside of the United States. Detroit and its vicinity have the scenery and architecture to pull off a Hollywood too.
I regress though both cities do their industries just right but it would be an interesting idea, I suppose.
On Minneapolis, its sort of the Seattle or Boston of the Midwest just smaller and its coming along pretty well. It's just at a measurable size disadvantage compared to Chicago.
Foot in mouth? So the West Coast has more aristocratic, blue-blood families than the Northeast, then?
No $32 billion dollar university endowments. No $3 trillion GDP. No aristocratic families dating back to the 18th Century. No Sotheby's and Christie's showroom. No connections to Paris, London, Milan, Rome and Amsterdam (i.e., real "culture" and sophistication). Only Asian outposts that were conquered and developed by Europeans (Hong Kong) or completely humiliated and emasculated by the Americans (Japan)-Bajan Yankee
Who said that the West Coast has more? You said the West Coast has NONE. FALSE
Furthermore, your comments about Europe and Asia are embarrassing and juvenile. And very foot-in-mouthish.
The most urban city in the US has to New York City, it's the only city you can get," beat up in the ER and treated at the same time".
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