Me too, but I'm glad I no longer live in them.
Mainly being from Los Angeles for most of my life with 10 years spent in San Francisco, I now prefer the remote Western US mountain town lifestyle.
But until I'd actually seen New York City and explored it, I really hadn't known what a metropolis really means. New York City convinced me that it remains the uncontested center of Western Civilization -- no insult to Paris or Rome intended.
San Francisco is just the miniature golf course version of Manhattan, and that's being generous.
“But until I’d actually seen New York City and explored it, I really hadn’t known what a metropolis really means. New York City convinced me that it remains the uncontested center of Western Civilization — no insult to Paris or Rome intended.”
- I more or less agree.
New York still is to be considered the capital of the World.
But many would say London has taken over its position as our planet’s financial capital.
Paris and Rome?
Rome is a magnificent city but it isn’t even the leading city in Italy.
Milan has 7.5 million inhabitants and is much stronger in terms of economic influence.
By the way, being European, I’d say the leading cities in my part of the World are London, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Frankfurt and above mentioned Milan.
Zürich, Geneva, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, Hamburg etc too are significant, but if you’d compare what’s happening in Zürich at the moment to what’s going on in the IT business of Stockholm I guess you’d deem the business scene in Zürich rather bleak.