In case you don’t know, China has a system in which cities (and its metro area) are organized by tiers depending on their economic, political and social power. This system is not official but it is widely used between the media and people and businesses in general.
The system is something like this, tier 1: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou; tier 1.5 (emerging metros): Chengdu, Wuhan…; tier 2: Harbin, Jinan… and so on
How do you think this system would be applied in the United States? (Hypothetically)
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Probably just do it on the same scale as how world cities are ranked, just eliminate the ones that aren’t in the US.
Here you go.
I found that on the article about “global cities“
Hasn’t this already been asked?
I think we should do it based on cats per capita.
Hehehe we would totally subvert any system like that.
People would be saying “oh New York, LA, and Chicago.” Then shit tons of other people would be upvoting the towns that people don’t realize has a shit ton of business or industry or just random towns people like.
I’m putting Marietta, Ohio on top tier and New York City in bottom tier.
Off the top of my head, probably something like this:
Tier 1: NYC, LA, Chicago
Tier 2: DC, SF, Boston, Miami
Tier 3: Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Seattle
I think you could make a case for DC being in Tier 1 based on its political power, but population-wise I think it fits better in Tier 2. I’m sure I forgot a city or two so feel free to tell me where I’m wrong lol.
Tier 1 – Muncie, Pocatello, Hattiesburg, Williamsport
Tier 2 – Kokomo, Appleton, Great Falls, Tyler
Tier 3 – Rocky Mount, Bangor, Erie, Laramie
etc
It’d probably be based on the revenue the cities make. It’d look something like this:
S tier: NYC
A tier: LA, Chicago, San Fran, Washington DC, Houston, Boston, Atlanta
B tier: Seattle, Philly, Miami, San Jose
C tier: Phoenix, Minneapolis, Detroit, San Diego, Denver
D tier: Baltimore, San Bernardino
Omaha is an a teir city.
You others can go home and gorge yourselves on inferior pizza.