Americans: do you live in a major city or not

i men like is eastern queens really more new yorky than north jersey

xp - aha - i see. despite many years of maligning the place, i would rather live in akron than columbus.

me too probably!

that is clear proof that akron is MAJOR

We need to develop a complex equation including pizza quality and crust thickness, city name font size on the Rand McNally map of the U.S.A., number of Grammy Award-winning sound engineering winners, Gucci loafer sales figures, serial killings, number of annual Rocky Horror Picture Show midnight showings, "urban" music festival frequency and attendance, average restaurant tip rate, quality of Major League Soccer franchise, and annual ostrich egg consumption.

Well, in terms of national profile, the Upper East and Upper West Sides are forever linked, much like Harlem/Spanish Harlem and the Bronx/the South Bronx. It's really only when you live there that you get a sense of them as different entities.

why don't we just agree that "a major American city" means Manhattan?

^^^ (multi-xpost)

number of annual Rocky Horror Picture Show midnight showings

Hahaha this one isn't bad, actually!

why don't we just agree that "a major American city" means Manhattan?

that would not be fair to Chicago and LA and New Haven and other places with great pizza, tho

someone from nyc once told me she thought of chicago as being in the middle of nowhere

surface area is the best measure

hell no, that would mean Houston would win

volume, actually

lol @ "win"

surface area + topological complexity

psychological density

emotional turpitude

basically my criteria is if you want to go out and eat a not-terribly-obscure cuisine for dinner and have no where to do so, you do not live in a major city

pointy areas with small footprints are necessarily more 'urban' than flat areas with big footprints

JXN, WY, has like a bazillion ethnic restaurants, as does Aspen

Is there an Indian restaurant y or n

pretty sure it's y in both cases

blended haircuts vs. mohawks

let's say that only the cities that show up in Google Maps at this scale are major cities:
http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/2/5/26/brianm/f_mapm_1d0dcc1.jpg

Pittsburgh - not a major city

pittsburgh--totally major city

sorry dayton

let's say that only the cities that show up in Google Maps at this scale are major cities:

the map includes cities that are major for their region, but not at a national scale

no major cities in either carolina ;_;

Superbowl championships count for a lot, Ed. Pittsburgh's in.

haha it doesn't include like anything on the east coast?

I think I DIED is onto something here.

hahah I vote for the google maps definition

this was totally a troll-y thread idea tho

i think u should only vote yes if a major in of the branches of the armed forces lives in your city

it doesnt include new york city

wichita, tulsa: yes
boston: no

JXN, WY, has like a bazillion ethnic restaurants, as does Aspen

Summer Camp for people from major cities tbh

Americans: do you live in a top ten metro area or not

it doesnt include new york city

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altho i wonder if wikipedia has an article or map showing that - where majors live i mean - one could be living next door to me and i wouldnt even know

it doesnt include new york city

even better

how dare u

Summer Camp for people from major cities tbh

― Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:23 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark

yeah duh!

btw i used to live next door to a major

in D______k Township!!!! not even incorporated!!!

Pittsburgh does excellent on culture, pretty good on industry, ethnic food, pizza, but we don't even have a direct intercontinental flight until next week and only patchy service west of the Mississippi. Not saying air transport is the be all and end all but it does tell that you can barely get anywhere south or west of us without flying east or north first

What about Major North American cities?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

maybe there's something to be said for population + density or something

^^^but i bet lots of people flying overseas from DC have to fly through NYC (just a wild guess) xpost

we're including Toronto, too, since it's pretty much touching.

― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:31 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Shit, I even voted "I don't live in a major city" to skew results/protest lack of Canadiana

St. Ignace, Michigan

now we're talkin'

kinda doubt that movie theaters in Stockton show very many of these directors' work. San Jose does very rarely.

lol miami is the only of those ive never been to - i decided to include it because it seems special and unique tho

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it has an art fair, and dwayne wade, thats all u really need to be a major city imo

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