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05-14-2009, 07:48 PM
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 Welcome to Boston, not perfect but...NOT BAD AT ALL (from the Clarendon Thread)
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05-15-2009, 12:00 AM
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05-15-2009, 06:43 PM
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New York and Chicago for sure, L.A. ATL and MIA have more night life, Havana (not sure if that is part of N America) I heard is real good, Guadalahara (Central America expt it's actually a part of North America) , and then I,d say San Fran, Philly, DC, Toronto, and Montreal and Vancover are on par maybe also Seattle.
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05-16-2009, 01:12 AM
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05-16-2009, 02:03 AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
in all of these rankings Boston appears pretty high up. Boston just has a little brother complex. No matter how good it is it will always see itself as less then its city siblings. |
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05-16-2009, 10:47 AM
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05-16-2009, 06:59 PM
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05-16-2009, 11:31 PM
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Do you have a citation for "most diverse city in the world"? I'm not doubting you, just never heard the claim before. If it's true, I'd guess that Los Angeles and NYC are close second and third, and London's in the mix too.
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05-17-2009, 06:43 AM
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San Francisco looks sweet in Star Trek.
I've always thought Toronto was dated and ugly, and suburban. |
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05-17-2009, 07:33 AM
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05-17-2009, 02:29 PM
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The aerial shot really doesn't tell me anything about urbanity, which has more to do with the variety of businesses, walkability, and availability of non-motorized transportation in a neighborood.
From that height it looks quite walkable: small streets, small builldings closely fronting on the streets, well-connected grid-like street pattern, no big parking lots. But I really can't determine any other facts about it, such as whether it contains a used bookstore, or a jazz club, or a bowling alley, or a movie theatre that shows foreign films, or an array of exotic ethnic restaurants. |
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05-22-2009, 03:00 PM
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I'm sorry, but i just crack up every time i see the title of this thread!
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05-29-2009, 03:19 AM
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05-29-2009, 03:46 AM
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Not that I think we came out badly here, but I wonder about a ranking system that puts us below Riyadh and Auckland. Or, for that matter, puts Houston above Cape Town, and Atlanta above Edinburgh.
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05-29-2009, 03:14 PM
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I'm guessing San Fran and Atlanta beat out Boston because we have to compete with the rest of the North East Megalopolis, whereas they don't have much competition in their immediate area.
Personally, I think Berlin gets the shaft. It's the center of one (if not the) most important countries in the EU (seriously, Warsaw and Madrid rank higher?). Maybe it's importance is diluted by the other major German cities? LA, Washington, and San Fran all being in the same grouping seems odd. Especially since, at least in my opinion, LA would have to be grouped with Chicago and Washington and San Fran clearly wouldn't. |
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05-29-2009, 05:33 PM
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