• KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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    1 个月前

    Chicago ain’t shit. Its L.A. , NYC, and DC. In that order. Chicago belongs with the floaters like Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Portland, and Las Vegas.

      • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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        1 个月前

        I cant help that you have terrible taste in pizza and goofy accents. Chicago is modern day irrelevant. It died right along side Detroit. You can only abuse them system for so long before all you have left is blood sucking lawyers and corrupt cops. LA is getting there, but our port is way better. Same for NY

          • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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            1 个月前

            I don’t hate Chicago. I just dont pretend anything remotely interesting has happened there since the Manhattan project. Its a boring backwaterthat blew out every dollar it ever made on anything but maintenance. Im honestly shocked every year it manages not to sink into the swamp it was built over. You people are lucky the place isnt named shittycaca

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 个月前

    San Francisco easily takes it imo.

    Distant 17th by population but more than makes up for it through business, technological, and cultural influence. (Edit: Especially since the wider San Francisco Bay Area can be credibly lumped together to form such a populous combined statistical area.)

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 个月前

        Seattle definitely isn’t the #4 most major city or CSA. It’s a great city and has major businesses, but Seattle probably sits behind Dallas–Fort Worth. All jokes about fairness aside: California gets to have this one.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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          1 个月前

          I’m from Seattle and I’m not even mad. I wish it was further down the list, my town was more fun when it was broke and unimportant. A boomtown that only gets fun on the downswing, that’s my Seattle.

      • alternategait@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 个月前

        Something like 1 out of 5 people in the US live in California. If California seceded from the US, it would rightfully join the G7 to make it the G8 again. California can have two cities. (Obviously born and raised in California even if I’m living basically as far as one can still in the US)

        • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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          1 个月前

          Honestly agree about the bay but what makes the bay good is the same thing that disqualifies it from the list. You cant pick one bay area city to represent all of the bay, even SF. Youre leaving out San Jose, Oakland, Richmond, the tri Valley, Walnut Creek, all that. You cant take any one of them to wholly represent the others.

          LA is California enough for most people. Its like us, but worse. Any true Californian knows youre not really talking about actual Los Angeles anyways. Its a whole cluster of cities from San Diego to Anaheim and out to the actual city proper. I think we got it covered.

          Big three should be LA, NYC, and DC. SF can be a floater like Philly or Atlanta or Houston. Chicago belongs in the past and we should leave it there with their goofy accents.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    1 个月前

    Depends how you define major. The 4th city rotates by category.

    Tourism? Vegas or Orlando.

    Politics or history? DC, Philadelphia or Boston.

    Tech? San Francisco or Seattle.

    Population size? Houston

    Land size? Juneau.

    Music? Nashville or maybe New Orleans and Atlanta.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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      1 个月前

      San Francisco is not just tech. It’s known for its tech and it the mecca of tech. However it’s a giant port akin to NY. If you look at the entire Bay Area like New York, there is no doubt.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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        1 个月前

        The fuck are these random squiggly lines I keep seeing everywhere. I just learned I can hold my finger down on them, click the squares and drop them in chatgpt and do the squares again and people make more squigglies

    • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 个月前

      Chicago was historically considered the Second City, after NYC. It’s a major shipping and economic hub and has something like the 6th highest GDP of any urban region in the world, over $919 billion in 2024. It has an incredibly diverse culture and is a world class city by every definition of the word.

    • Doublenut@lemmy.zip
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      1 个月前

      I’d say Miam, San Francisco, and Atlanta

      NY gets to cover the whole NE and Miami is it’s own special place. Atlanta takes care of the SE.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 个月前

    I’m not sure… who would be the rotations?

    Boston ?

    San Francisco

    Phoenix

    Santa Fe

    Houston Austin

    Idk

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 个月前

    NYC is definitely there.

    LA is honestly debatable. They have hollywood, but other than and a few things like that (Disneyland) that their claim to fame is just population. Not to say that Hollywood isn’t massive, but I just have this intuition that it’s shrinking and has been for some time because of the perpetual self centered hubris and greed blowing up in their face. And like an overweight person who is eating right and exercising and being healthy, I see that as a healthy person, not a fat person. I think they do belong there, but moreso as a vestige of a passing era.

    SEA is somewhat in the same boat. I’m from here, and it is nice, but all these tech companies keep fucking up and being overly greedy. We don’t have the population of LA or other, even bigger massive urban sprawls, but we do have a fuckton of modern business and industry. Unfortunately, much of it has or is in various stages of imploding from their own idiocy and greed. We do, however have EDIT: nothing nice. Don’t come here. Everything is terrible and expensive and awful and breaking down and dirty and conservative and liberal and too educated and there are no jobs and everyone is stupid. Awful place, 0/10 🏳️‍⚧️ zero growth it’s all gentrifying and too many cars and smoke and drugs and gays and old people and freedom. Go away. 🏳️‍⚧️ Portland also sucks, don’t go there terrible coffee and pizza and bookstores and zero culture. Coffee and food are all terrible and it just rains 100% of the time and everybody is miserable and dumb and unfriendly and there’s no polycule and no music and no game studios it’s all libtard dei wokegenda. It’s hopeless. Yuck. Very unamerican. Everybody’s the same and there’s no public health or state benefits or bleeding edge research being done. Just an average mill, all brown old buildings from the 1800s. Borrriinnnng. Also our tacos are terrible. And the beer is all generic and bad and supports the gays. And if you’re a furry you’re gonna be alone, there are none of those here. And forget diversity of EDIT: uh, I’m being told to shut the fuck up. Yeah. Uh huh.

    MIAMI is great. Definitely go there. Best governor, most level headed and not a cult, no corruption at all. Great benefits. Very racist. Very common sense, much Trump ⛱️