The fourth major US city is Springfield. Which Springfield, you ask? Any and all.
They are all the omni-Springfield. Shelbyville differs by state.
I hear when the earth is threatened all the spring fields form into a mega Springfield, with the Simspons Springfield forming the head
Which we used to call Morganville back in the day…
Correct. The cities in rotation are Dallas (the capital of oil), Houston (the other capital of oil), Atlanta (the capital of black people), Miami (the capital of Latino people), SF (the capital of rich people), and DC (the capital).
[sad Boston noises] they only get to be on the list when one or more of their sports teams is doing well and everyone hates them for it.
Ah yes Boston the capital of assholes.
(Surprisingly, when I lived there, I thought people were very nice)
People, very nice, drivers… Massholes are very real, but did you ever notice how they rarely break things? Agressive, yes, but they also learned to drive in a place where the road itself is also an adversary.
Who cares about Dallas, Houston or Atlanta - do people actually go those places when they don’t have to? I mean travel there by choice rather than necessity.
No one goes to Texas on purpose. Something has to go wrong in your life to land you there.
Being forced to go there is what makes them the rotating 4th.
My criteria wasnt about appeal, but influence. Dallas and Houston are the biggest hubs of cowboy culture, which is probably the most iconic American look recognized around the world. These cities define the way other US cities are built, leading the way in car centric design. And the oil industry is responsible for every war we’ve been in for the last 30 years.
Atlanta, in addition to having a large population, is a huge center for music, food, and civil rights, and plays an outsized role in national politics as turnout there can sway presidential elections and congressional balance.
I had Miami and SF on my list, but the others make sense.
The people who live in Houston seem to think it’s as good as Chicago, I’d disagree with them but at least there are good restaurants. Also from a population standpoint, Houston is basically the same size as Chicago so it invites comparison in one regard.
Dallas and Miami for sure. SF is basically the same as LA with Golden Gate. But Boston, Seattle, (New) Detroit, and maybe Omaha/Wichita if there’s tornado chasers or country/city clashes.
Omaha and Wichita are not on the same level as any of the rest you’ve listed. Very random to put them in here. Omaha is the 42nd largest city and Wichita is 52nd. And if you’re comparing Metro areas I would guess that disparity would place them much lower.
SF same as LA??? Have you been to either? Scale. LA is huge. SF is a tiny city. Weather. LA has nice weather. SF has four seasons: windy, foggy, ok, rainy. Always somewhat cold. Food: LA is so much bigger and has much more to offer. SF has good food if you can afford it. Vibe: in LA everyone is nice to you but doesn’t care about you unless you’re rich. In SF no one cares about you. Architecture: suburb vs Victorian suburb.
Yes, I have. On camera they both look so similar that the only way to discern the difference between Culver City and the Mission district is the background or having lived in those areas. This is how movie planning goes - what looks similar enough to pass as the area. It’s why Atlanta was used for New York in The Matrix (but you don’t seem to notice) with street names from Sydney (which you also don’t notice).
LA and SF have the same architecture from the early 1900s. Both have big parks, dense downtowns, and multi-storey sprawl for housing.
Have you been to these places and actually looked around?
No one is arguing for Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh is just fine with that.
pretty sure the only people thinking about pittsburgh are the ones suffering from pittsburgh.
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Geographically speaking it should be either Seattle or Atlanta, it should be a list of 5 tbh
Mexico City is the largest city in North America. Now if they said US that’s a different story
I’m curious, where are you from that “American” used on its own doesn’t specifically indicate united-states-of-?
American is slang for something or somebody from the US. I live near the canadian border.
Canadians, Mexicans and everyone in South America all are technically “americans” and refer to themselves as such occasionally, often because its a necessary descriptor for people from particular continents in the same way “eurasian” is used to describe a multicontinental land mass.
Personally, I’d encourage people to re-adopt the word “Yankees” for US people, its a way funnier word.
Too many Confederate/Rebel/MAGA flags still flying for that.
I think its funnier to upset them by calling them yankees.
If you specifically want to call them something dumb it doesn’t hurt to call them something new: S’ankees, Sou’r krauts, corn krauts, texmex, texish, etc.
I prefer Y’all Quaeda .
I like that one too, it just doesn’t convey the truth their leadership is like a bunch of ivyleague trust fund kids who were trained to sound folksy by voice trainers.
It’s a stamce on here some people have to dub “American” as belonging to all of North and South America. It’s basically just being anti-US as much of Lemmy is.
Latinamerican here. “American” for us is someone who was born in the Americas… i bet it is the same for all latinamerica.
They didn’t say “North American,” they said “American.” Everyone who speaks English understands that “America” on its own is almost always in reference to the USA.
It’s Jacksonville, FL obviously.
My vote is probably Seattle, Philly or Boston, but I just happen to like them a lot. SF is lovely except it’s a bit too small and if you include Oakland and Berkeley (you should), it has some serious issues. Portland is nice too, but again pretty small.
Y’all who nominate any Texas (or any other deep red state city, save for maybe New Orleans) are fucking crazy though; even if they’re an oasis in an idiot desert, I’ve never enjoyed being in those cities. Even ignoring the state politics bringing them down, most are hot, humid and inconvenient to visit. I’m sure there’s some public transportation in places like Dallas or Houston but I have my doubts, I’ve always had someone I was visiting drive me.
From an international perspective, we know:
- New York
- LA
- Washington DC
- Miami
- Las Vegas
- New Orleans
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- Boston
- Houston
- Philadelphia
- Seattle
Is there anywhere else that’s a world-renowned contender?
The last handful on there are probably in name only, and we couldn’t tell them apart. The top spots probably have the most distinct flavours and/or famous landmarks
Memphis
Kansas city
Dallas
Atlantic city
Atlanta
Some other famous US cities:
- Arlen, Texas
- Springfield
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Pawnee, Indiana
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Quahog, Rhode Island
- New New York, New York
- Metropolis
- Gotham City
- South Park, Colorado
Gotta be miami or san francisco
Boston
Full of Massholes. Angry white massholes.
Pass.
New york, ciudad de mexico, sao pablo, rio de janeiro
New York, LA, Chicago, and Houston, apparently.
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I don’t even think Chicago makes the list.
Sounds like a person from not Chicago.
I don’t live in Chicago, but it’s the fucking bomb. Awesome friendly people, good culture, just a goddamn gem of the midwest.
Gem of the country
Does that make the Midwest the tiara that gem is set into?
That’s fine, but it’s very far down the list of cities I’d expect to have a conversation or even hear about.
I went and found it altogether dreary. The city feels like it’s trying so hard to be New York with nothing of what makes New York so good, then you go out of the city and find the bleakest landscape on earth. Even leaving isn’t a good experience because you’ve got to deal with getting to O’Hare. I’d take Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Boston or even DC, Phoenix or Philly over it in a heartbeat.
Phoenix? Oof.
Chicago is such a self-important city for people with no sense of the world.
But it is Philly
good old robot murdering Philthadelphia
Well, it contained batteries.
