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Boulder's metro area is around 330k - not quite "small town". That 100k is people inside one of the local government boundaries of the area. The US Census consi

Boulder's metro area is around 330k - not quite "small town". That 100k is people inside one of the local government boundaries of the area. The US Census considers 5k to be the upper limit of a small town.

rmccue 1y ago
Brisbane is often called a "big country town" by other Australians, and it's 2.8 million people, so don't take that phrase too strongly :) That said, agreed with the GP - places like Boulder, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, or New Orleans are places that we know about through culture and are internationally recognised, while being much smaller than Australian cities. That's mostly a factor of a huge amount of English-speaking media being from the US. Australia attempts to counter this through laws requiring a certain quota of Australian content in the media, but that hasn't really worked - and is one of the factors which spawned many Australian reality TV shows.
- devilbunny 1y ago
  New Orleans is tiny by global scale and not very large even in the US. It is, however, culturally unique (there is nothing else even close) and strategically insanely important.
  - josephg 1y ago
    Plenty of towns and cities in the UK are also totally unique culturally. I visited Edinburgh a couple years ago and was blown away by the city and its people. God, everyone I met was so funny and interesting. But it’s almost never depicted on tv, outside of the occasional BBC crime drama or something. And those usually don’t get much air time outside of the UK. Peaky blinders has done an amazing job telling some of the history of Birmingham. I want more of that! The world is just so big and interesting. Far bigger than Hollywood will ever bother to portray.
hdgvhicv 1y ago
Do Americans know what stoke on Trent looks like? Or Derby? U.K. towns of similar size You might have heard of Aberdeen I guess. But have you heard of Geelong in Australia?
- defen 1y ago
  > Do Americans know what stoke on Trent looks like American here. Literally the only thing I know about Stoke on Trent is that Messi would struggle there during a cold rainy night.

rmccue 1y ago

Brisbane is often called a "big country town" by other Australians, and it's 2.8 million people, so don't take that phrase too strongly :) That said, agreed with the GP - places like Boulder, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, or New Orleans are places that we know about through culture and are internationally recognised, while being much smaller than Australian cities. That's mostly a factor of a huge amount of English-speaking media being from the US. Australia attempts to counter this through laws requiring a certain quota of Australian content in the media, but that hasn't really worked - and is one of the factors which spawned many Australian reality TV shows.

devilbunny 1y ago
New Orleans is tiny by global scale and not very large even in the US. It is, however, culturally unique (there is nothing else even close) and strategically insanely important.
- josephg 1y ago
  Plenty of towns and cities in the UK are also totally unique culturally. I visited Edinburgh a couple years ago and was blown away by the city and its people. God, everyone I met was so funny and interesting. But it’s almost never depicted on tv, outside of the occasional BBC crime drama or something. And those usually don’t get much air time outside of the UK. Peaky blinders has done an amazing job telling some of the history of Birmingham. I want more of that! The world is just so big and interesting. Far bigger than Hollywood will ever bother to portray.

hdgvhicv 1y ago

Do Americans know what stoke on Trent looks like? Or Derby? U.K. towns of similar size You might have heard of Aberdeen I guess. But have you heard of Geelong in Australia?

defen 1y ago
> Do Americans know what stoke on Trent looks like American here. Literally the only thing I know about Stoke on Trent is that Messi would struggle there during a cold rainy night.