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Decent list but the SF Bay Area is not a metropolitan area. It’s a Combined Statistical Area. Not sure why these lists have a tendency to use CSA for that city but MSA for every other city.
Because actual real life people who live there on the ground treat it as such, and The Bay Area functions in real, everyday life as a singular metropolitan entity in a way that DC & Baltimore never will... Much more like DFW than Balt/DC
Charleston, SC and Wilmington, DE should switch places.
IDK about that.
Charleston has a higher national profile thanks to its antebellum architecture; it's a tourist magnet where Wilmington isn't.
I know that Wilmington has outsized financial and legal importance because of Delaware's business-friendly incorporation laws (something close to 90% of all the large companies in the country are incorporated in Delaware, no matter where they are headquartered) and bank-friendly usury laws (it shares with Sioux City, SD, the title of bank credit-card capital of the country; I worked for one of the biggies, MBNA, for six months on a temp assignment that ended when the company announced it had sold itself to Bank of America). But I think those don't register in the public consciousness the way Charleston's architecture does.
Charleston has a higher national profile thanks to its antebellum architecture; it's a tourist magnet where Wilmington isn't.
I know that Wilmington has outsized financial and legal importance because of Delaware's business-friendly incorporation laws (something close to 90% of all the large companies in the country are incorporated in Delaware, no matter where they are headquartered) and bank-friendly usury laws (it shares with Sioux City, SD, the title of bank credit-card capital of the country; I worked for one of the biggies, MBNA, for six months on a temp assignment that ended when the company announced it had sold itself to Bank of America). But I think those don't register in the public consciousness the way Charleston's architecture does.
You just made the argument as to why Wilmington is more influential--which isn't necessarily the same thing as having a higher national profile--in reality IMO.
Sorry, I looked back and discovered that my cutting and pasting omitted Toronto--so here it is, corrected.
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Originally Posted by 18Montclair
The scores are very interesting here.
>50.00--Global Giant
One of the World's 5 Most Important Cities:
100.0 New York
25.0-49.9 Global City
A city of global importance, with outsized impact on the world:
44.4 Los Angeles
37.9 San Francisco Bay Area
30.4 Chicago
27.1 Washington
12.5-25.9 Major City
A city of very high importance, with significance impact outside of it's country:
21.7 Mexico City 21.0 Toronto
16.7 Dallas-Fort Worth
15.5 Houston
15.3 Atlanta
14.7 Miami
14.2 Philadelphia
13.3 Seattle
6.3-12.4 Almost Major City
A city that's almost a "Major City" but slightly deficient in some regard.
9.8 Montreal
8.7 Phoenix
8.6 Detroit
8.4 San Diego
8.3 Vancouver
8.2 Denver
8.1 Minneapolis-St Paul
Sorry, I looked back and discovered that my cutting and pasting omitted Toronto--so here it is, corrected.
Looks like you’re also missing Boston at 20.0
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