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Originally Posted by jbermingham123
Exactly. Size and status vary orthogonally. Texas cities can grow as big as they want, but global status is a different game entirely.
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The problem for any city in Texas in terms of global status is that they will always be behind NYC and LA in terms of global impact and there is only room for 2 or arguably 3 ( Chicago? ) American cities.
Ditto in Europe there are many wonderful cities with superb cultural and economic attributes but London and Paris are the Big 2 and it is impossible to imagine that change. Even the likes of Berlin and Madrid feel essentially provincial when compared to London and Paris which are just on a bigger scale in every way.
Ask a man in the street to name cities in China and he will name Peking, Shanghai and Hong Kong and then start to struggle. No matter how populous or importnat the others are they are not in the global imagination.