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This is inspired by another thread down the page, "Best 'smaller' cities". Instead of that poll, I'm only interested in seeing which cities with a population under 500,000 persons have your respect. Most cities under a million don't see the light of day in terms of discussion here, so hopefully this will make an interesting thread.
As far as whether I meant city proper, metro, or urban populations... it doesn't matter as long as some more or less official interpretation of the population doesn't exceed 500 K.
Some examples might be:
Girona, Spain
Victoria, Canada
Salzburg, Austria
Plzen, Czech Republic
Haridwar, India
Minneapolis, Minnesota is one of my favorite American mid-sized cities. It is modern, very open and it was heavily influenced by Swedish/Finnish immigration. It has its own unique culture and I really miss it sometimes.
Minneapolis, Minnesota is one of my favorite American mid-sized cities. It is modern, very open and it was heavily influenced by Swedish/Finnish immigration. It has its own unique culture and I really miss it sometimes.
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Hartford, CT
Cary, NC
Ann Arbor, MI
Minneapolis, MN
Saint Paul, MN
Salt Lake City, UT
Scottsdale, AZ
Honolulu, HI
As far as whether I meant city proper, metro, or urban populations... it doesn't matter as long as some more or less official interpretation of the population doesn't exceed 500 K.
Some examples might be:
Girona, Spain
Victoria, Canada
Salzburg, Austria
Plzen, Czech Republic
Haridwar, India
As far as whether I meant city proper, metro, or urban populations... it doesn't matter as long as some more or less official interpretation of the population doesn't exceed 500 K.
I understand why you mentioned the above and I don't mean to be a nerd but there's a bit of a problem when Vilnius or Quebec City (over 500k by any measure) cannot be in a discussion for small cities, yet Minneapolis, Atlanta or Miami can.
But anyway. My favorite <500k cities (metro area):
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Annecy, France
Cadiz, Spain
Kotor, Montenegro
Savannah, Georgia (USA)
I understand why you mentioned the above and I don't mean to be a nerd but there's a bit of a problem when Vilnius or Quebec City (over 500k by any measure) cannot be in a discussion for small cities, yet Minneapolis, Atlanta or Miami can.
But anyway. My favorite <500k cities (metro area):
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Annecy, France
Cadiz, Spain
Kotor, Montenegro
Savannah, Georgia (USA)
All three of those cities (the American ones) do I have a population way over 500K though. I should've said no cities with a metro over 500K according to some sort of official measurement intead. I guess that wasn't so clear, but my intent was to prevent some cities from being mentioned because they have like an extra 2000 people or something.
Santa Rosa
Santa Cruz
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara
Santa Paula
Santa Clarita
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