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There are two serious global cities in the US — NYC and SF. I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that the center of power/influence/whatever in the US is

There are two serious global cities in the US — NYC and SF. I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that the center of power/influence/whatever in the US is shifting to these cities over middle America.

JumpCrisscross 10y ago
> There are two serious global cities in the US — NYC and SF After New York each of Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and D.C.'s metropolitan areas are more economically larger than San Francisco's [1]. SF is also relatively negligible as a global financial centre. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_areas_by_GDP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_ar...
- milesskorpen 10y ago
  MSAs aren't great definitions of geographical areas — San Jose is part of the Bay Area. If you include San Jose in SF, then SF is the clear #3 in total — and per capita would be a step function ahead of any other American city apart from NY. Even beyond this, I don't think GDP is a good definition of "global city" — I don't think a city with massive commodity outflows could fit into the category, for instance.
  - pvg 10y ago
    If you include San Jose in SF, you're not really talking about SF. I've lived in SF on and off for many years and am very fond of the place. The notion it's a 'global city' in the same category as NYC or LA seems like quite a stretch.
kchoudhu 10y ago
Um. Los Angeles. Chicago. Atlanta.
bogomipz 10y ago
There are many global cities in the US - NYC, Chicago, D.C, Dallas, Houston and S.F would maybe be a distant 6th or 7th. You might want go do some traveling and broaden your perspective. How can you say that the center of power and influence is shifting to New York and S.F? New York has been a center of power since the Dutch arrived. Besides a bunch of tech startups what is S.F the center of?

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There are two serious global cities in the US — NYC and SF. I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that the center of power/influence/whatever in the US is

by milesskorpen 10y ago

JumpCrisscross 10y ago
> There are two serious global cities in the US — NYC and SF After New York each of Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and D.C.'s metropolitan areas are more economically larger than San Francisco's [1]. SF is also relatively negligible as a global financial centre. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_areas_by_GDP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_ar...
- milesskorpen 10y ago
  MSAs aren't great definitions of geographical areas — San Jose is part of the Bay Area. If you include San Jose in SF, then SF is the clear #3 in total — and per capita would be a step function ahead of any other American city apart from NY. Even beyond this, I don't think GDP is a good definition of "global city" — I don't think a city with massive commodity outflows could fit into the category, for instance.
  - pvg 10y ago
    If you include San Jose in SF, you're not really talking about SF. I've lived in SF on and off for many years and am very fond of the place. The notion it's a 'global city' in the same category as NYC or LA seems like quite a stretch.
kchoudhu 10y ago
Um. Los Angeles. Chicago. Atlanta.
bogomipz 10y ago
There are many global cities in the US - NYC, Chicago, D.C, Dallas, Houston and S.F would maybe be a distant 6th or 7th. You might want go do some traveling and broaden your perspective. How can you say that the center of power and influence is shifting to New York and S.F? New York has been a center of power since the Dutch arrived. Besides a bunch of tech startups what is S.F the center of?