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There are only three world class cities in America.
by rhino369 10y ago
There are only three world class cities in America.
- santaclaus 10y agoAmerica has lots of rad cities with strong economic opportunities: NYC, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Austin, Denver, ...
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI live in the Boston area, and the only things that are world-class here are the Ivy League universities and Massachusetts General Hospital. This place doesn't deserve anything remotely like the ego it actually has. (Take note: I'm originally from New York. There is a rivalry at work here.)
- sremani 10y agoAs a person who had the misfortune of taking Public transport from La Guardia to Manhattan, I would not label entire NYC "world-class" unless I get to append it with "mess".
- mirimir 10y agoJamaica LIRR station, right?
- gipp 10y agoThat's JFK. Considerably easier, despite being considerably further away.
- greglindahl 10y agoYou should have taken the private express bus, and instead you complain about your poor choice? Eh?
- greglindahl 10y agoUh, thanks for the downvotes? My point is that there is no express public transit service from LaGuardia to Manhattan; there's a express private service, and most people know about it. If you look on the Internet it's pretty visible.
- sgift 10y agoThis kind of makes the point. A world-class city, but no good public transportation from airport to city center? World-class mess.
- greglindahl 10y agoSo NY would be a better city if they started an express bus service that competes with the existing, popular private bus service? Either way, I take the bus.
- la_oveja 10y agoIf a city wants to be truly world-class it needs to have a good public transportation system.
- L_Rahman 10y ago@eli_gottlieb: You're being downvoted for what reasons that should seem fairly obvious, so here's some support from a fellow native New Yorker :) @sremani: We have really fucked this up. The lack of a direct rail link from any one of our three airports to Manhattan is shameful.
- rayiner 10y agoBoston is a fine city, but not world class. First time I flew into Logan I looked around thinking I must've flown into the small secondary airport.
- tacomonstrous 10y agoI found Boston to be super provincial (outside of the university crowd), and way overpriced for what it offers. Moving there from a city like Chicago was really quite a shock for us. A fraction of the culture and food scene for a multiple of the price. We spent a year there and ended up moving to Providence, which is much better value for money and also has better food.
- vostok 10y agoThere's a world class non Ivy League university just outside Boston too.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI was including MIT in "Ivy League", even though it doesn't play football with the rest of them.
- MarkMMullin 10y agoThey do have an excellent reputation for participating in the games under their own rules, tho :-)
- kchoudhu 10y agoThere really is only one. The pretenders on the West Coast should really know better than to get into this fight by now.
- notadoc 10y agoOK so how about a city like Albany NY, which is not far outside of NYC and is somewhere between 1/10th to 1/25th the cost of housing as found in the bay area.