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Old Posted Feb 2, 2020, 10:08 PM
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What’s the largest city you’ve visited

What’s The largest city anyone has visited or lived in? Just curious... Mine would be México city, NYC, LA, Lima, Peru, then Chicago? Planning a trip to China/southwest Asia. Obviously Chinese cities take the cake, but what about other places? Also why didn’t you choose smaller cities in your travels.
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Largest visited: Mexico City or São Paulo... not sure which is larger, guess it depends on boundaries

Largest in which I’ve lived: New York

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I lived in Orange County for five years but it's hard for me to count that as part of Los Angeles.
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Tokyo . . . followed by New York.

Largely I HAVE chosen to visit small cities, from Japanese and Filipino villages through numerous medium-sized European cities. In other cases it's because work took me certain places such as Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island rather than the North Island or Sydney because that's where the flights landed (from there I went to Brisbane). An example would be in Thailand I was on a ship that took me to Pattaya, not Bangkok (I could have taken a bus to Bangkok but didn't feel like bothering with that vs hanging out on the beach in Pattaya). Another would be Korea where we docked in Pusan, not Seoul.
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Mexico City. I was in Sao Paulo as a child in the 1950s when it was still Brazil's "second city". It was referred to as the "Chicago of Brazil" back then. I guess my actual largest cities would be Mexico City and NYC. Biggest cities where I have lived would be NYC and LA.

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Largest city I've visited: NYC

Largest city I've lived in: Chicago
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Shanghai, 25 million, metro 27-38 million

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I've lived in both New York and São Paulo.

They're similar in city proper size and metro, although SP's is denser as a whole and has less suburban sprawl. They both have similar ''True Big City'' feelings, which I've only felt in NYC, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and London.
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