cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/politicalmemes/p/862070/can-anyone-confirm
Mexico City is the largest city in North America. Now if they said US that's a different story
I'm curious, where are you from that "American" used on its own doesn't specifically indicate united-states-of-?
It's a stamce on here some people have to dub "American" as belonging to all of North and South America. It's basically just being anti-US as much of Lemmy is.
They didn't say "North American," they said "American." Everyone who speaks English understands that "America" on its own is almost always in reference to the USA.
Geographically speaking it should be either Seattle or Atlanta, it should be a list of 5 tbh
I don’t even think Chicago makes the list.
Sounds like a person from not Chicago.
I don't live in Chicago, but it's the fucking bomb. Awesome friendly people, good culture, just a goddamn gem of the midwest.
That’s fine, but it’s very far down the list of cities I’d expect to have a conversation or even hear about.
I went and found it altogether dreary. The city feels like it's trying so hard to be New York with nothing of what makes New York so good, then you go out of the city and find the bleakest landscape on earth. Even leaving isn't a good experience because you've got to deal with getting to O'Hare. I'd take Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Boston or even DC, Phoenix or Philly over it in a heartbeat.
Phoenix? Oof.
Gem of the country
Does that make the Midwest the tiara that gem is set into?
The fourth major US city is Springfield. Which Springfield, you ask? Any and all.
They are all the omni-Springfield. Shelbyville differs by state.
I hear when the earth is threatened all the spring fields form into a mega Springfield, with the Simspons Springfield forming the head
No one is arguing for Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh is just fine with that.
pretty sure the only people thinking about pittsburgh are the ones suffering from pittsburgh.
oof
They got cool bridges
Yeah, one and two lane bridges. Everywhere.
The whole city has to merge down to two lanes and often to one lane. there is no avoiding it.
I used to live there and I'm so glad I don't anymore. Getting anywhere in that fucking place was a goddamn pain in the dickhole. Slow drivers, miserable merges and everyone goes through the fort pitt tunnels at .5 MPH.
Fuck that city.
"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland."
Tennessee Williams
I think I agree with Tennessee Williams on NOLA that's a great town, the food there is worth almost any distance flight.
Philadelphia. Paddy's Pub is a landmark
I bet it rotates between Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Austin, Dallas, Seattle, and Portland, with occasional layovers somewhere in Florida.
Back to food the Detroit metro is right up there everything from great sliders, BBQ, Middle Eastern, Eastern Europe. If a food exists you're going to find a pretty great representation there.
Then there's the museums, the car culture, Motown, and now tech. Lots of shade has been thrown at Detroit but in 2026 if I was in tech or engineering it would be my first stop. Major sports teams, great jobs, the water, cool art deco architecture that all seems pretty great to me.
But WINTER
The water? How close is Detroit to Flint?
Flint is in the metro Detroit are but the water I was talking about was the riverfront and the islands just off the coast.
Could probably throw Denver in there and atl
Denver is much more likely than Portland or Philly
I feel like Las Vegas takes fourth just purely from cultural relevance.
If it was by population then the 4th would be Houston but no one gives a shit about Houston.
Oooo yeah Vegas is a good candidate
Remember the point of this is American cities not US cities so we need to account for Canada, central, and south American cities.
When this was posted yesterday I put Miami at number four but there are lots of large vibrant cities in America.
I think I'd probably put Toronto in place of Chicago, I haven't been in any large city south or Mexico City so I'm not much use there
I mean if we're going ALL of the Americas it's probably Sao Paulo, NYC, Mexico City, and imo 4th is a toss up between LA and Rio De Janeiro.
But it is Philly
good old robot murdering Philthadelphia
Well, it contained batteries.
My vote is probably Seattle, Philly or Boston, but I just happen to like them a lot. SF is lovely except it's a bit too small and if you include Oakland and Berkeley (you should), it has some serious issues. Portland is nice too, but again pretty small.
Y'all who nominate any Texas (or any other deep red state city, save for maybe New Orleans) are fucking crazy though; even if they're an oasis in an idiot desert, I've never enjoyed being in those cities. Even ignoring the state politics bringing them down, most are hot, humid and inconvenient to visit. I'm sure there's some public transportation in places like Dallas or Houston but I have my doubts, I've always had someone I was visiting drive me.
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