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jeddy3 · 2023-07-17 14:55:00

Sure, but many cities in the world are not in the US.

Fomite | karma 7511 | avg karma 2.48 · | 2019-04-22 22:30:41+00:00

Except that the cities in question are not exclusively American...

throwaway744678 | karma 934 | avg karma 2.46 · | 2020-05-22 11:16:10+00:00

There are a lot of cities in the world, though.

felipelemos | karma 942 | avg karma 2.71 · | 2017-05-30 12:20:44+00:00

The world is a bit larger than some american cities.

PeterisP | karma 22789 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2023-03-06 15:44:08

Not only many world cities, but also at least some parts of iconic USA cities like New York City Manhattan, downtown Chicago, etc.

rsynnott | karma 18312 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2019-09-19 23:43:27+00:00

The US has cities, I believe.

breather | karma 146 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2024-02-15 06:43:46

Again, american cities are a small fraction of the world.

zevyoura | karma 1051 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2014-11-26 15:15:41

All American cities, and nearly all international cities.

ajkjk | karma 8277 | avg karma 3.64 · | 2024-01-21 09:30:31

Ah yes it's US cities in particular, yeah.

dcow | karma 7854 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2022-07-14 19:57:05

It's not universally advantageous and I never said it was. I think you're missing my point. If someone is looking for a world city, there aren't very many in the US. I didn't say I am looking for them or that you should be looking for them. I am suggesting that the original commenter is looking for them and struggling to find them. My comment is simply that: a comment about how I'm surprised there aren't more world cities in the US.

second--shift | karma 187 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2022-01-28 14:45:36

American cities certainly are.

philistine | karma 3455 | avg karma 1.99 · | 2024-02-03 09:06:14

Exactly. Look at population density inside those cities. You'll find the US is living in what they call cities, but that they are all far from one another compared to the rest of the world.

woolvalley | karma 1691 | avg karma 1.99 · | 2017-11-13 06:26:07+00:00

Quite a few large cities around the world would like to disagree with you.

influx | karma 2328 | avg karma 3.29 · | 2018-01-22 18:11:49

The USA is so big and diverse it's silly to say that the it doesn't have any "real cities". I suspect New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Portland and others would be proof otherwise.

sesutton | karma 548 | avg karma 3.97 · | 2018-05-05 03:00:29+00:00

No need to exclude most cities that aren't NYC or SF.

rebolek | karma 882 | avg karma 3.64 · | 2023-06-09 03:13:00

Usual definition of "almost everywhere" does not include American cities but almost everywhere else.

tptacek | karma 394296 | avg karma 6.04 · | 2018-05-03 22:43:35+00:00

Ok, but those US cities are only something like 16% of the US urban population in cities over 100,000 residents.

emodendroket | karma 21781 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2021-06-04 15:49:42

Uh yeah of course but hardly confined to huge cities like that.

TheCleric | karma 1266 | avg karma 2.11 · | 2023-08-20 10:24:25

Sure they can. US cities are not uniform. For example Helsinki has roughly the population and metro density of Providence, Rhode Island. Finland may not have a New York or San Francisco, but that doesn't mean there's not good comparisons anywhere in the US.

derefr | karma 53572 | avg karma 3.59 · | 2017-05-16 21:39:26

Probably true enough, but isn't very useful information to me: I don't live in the US in the first place, so it's not easier for me to pick a US city than one anywhere else. :)