Londoncentricity

Thud

I'm going to go with NY as the best.

Right. And that's important in the running and day to day functioning of the country how? Why does that need good rail, road and sea links? Does it matter if that's near the political or economic centres?

Washington's pretty important in running the country, doesn't detract from NY being no.1 does it? My point is about the pull of different places, and most people would acknowledge that America has more contenders vying for no1 than England.

Reply 22

Thud

If we look at the US as a whole, LA is not too important.

Just like Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham are not too important in the UK. Helpful? Yes. Relatively important? Not really.

Rubbish. Course they are important. But Manchester/Birmingham are not to London as LA is to NYC. Thats my point.

Reply 23

naivesincerity

Rubbish. Course they are important. But Manchester/Birmingham are not to London as LA is to NYC. Thats my point.

Do you not understand English? "not too important" means still important but not hugely so, not that they're not important.

I'm pretty sure you're just going at me because of your personal dislike of me...

Reply 24

blondevalkyrie

he did post ages ago about hating america...

Reply 25

Thud

Nonsense. I'm just refuting your idea that LA isn't a major player in the US.
don't be so over-sensitive.

Reply 26

naivesincerity

Nonsense. I'm just refuting your idea that LA isn't a major player in the US.
don't be so over-sensitive.

I'm not the one who went off in a big huff last time... :rolleyes:

Reply 27

Thud

I'm not the one who went off in a big huff last time... :rolleyes:

Well anyway, if you've reached the limits of your capability for sensible discourse......

Reply 28

I wasn't the one who started picking on people just because of a personal dislike of them for reasons unknown (well, maybe I have an idea why but ad hom isn't a good debating tactic :wink:

)

Reply 29

You've concocted that idea in your eccentric mind Thud. It's quite fallacious.

Reply 30

;yes; sure it it. :wink:

Reply 31

London has a dominance over the rest of the UK primarily because of its population in my opinion.

UK cities -1st most populated, 2nd most populated cities
1 - London 7.172,052
2 - Birmingham - 965,928

US cities -
1 - New York - 8,250,567
2 - Los Angeles - 3,849,378

Also, around 14% of the UK population live in London. Less than around 3% of the US population live in New York.

London's population, transport links with the rest of the world (Thames, Heathrow), universities, the FTSE, the City and etc etc etc means that it can never be rivaled by any other city in the UK.

Reply 32

Cowberg

Thud

Is it just me that doesn't like the smelly, overcrowded, dirty, congested, busy London?

I hate big, crowded cities in general, so going to London isn't really on my to-do list. Hereford's a tiny city, and I'm used to it. It's not busy, you can walk down the street with a 10 metre clean zone on a busy Saturday (or is that just me?!). I even find the relatively small Canterbury, which friends from London called empty and boring, too hustle and bustle for me.

Yeah, so pissing London and it's pissing tube network that I have to traverse in order to get back home to see my pissing dog every once in a while.

Hate the place.

Reply 33

Cowberg

Jennybean

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You're either drunk or RANDOM XD.

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Reply 34

Jennybean

loondon ffw haaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhujyyyyyyyyyyyyy,m lollllllll

That Alan Carr quote in your sig is quite funny. That man is hilarious lol.

Reply 35

Jennybean

uI JNOW KLOL xxxxx

Exactly lol. Now go and get some sleep.

Reply 36

Flashmob

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To be fair the difference is more like:

1 Greater London Urban Area 8,278,251 67
2 West Midlands Urban Area 2,284,093 22
3 Greater Manchester Urban Area 2,240,230

So not too much of a difference...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conurbations_in_the_United_Kingdom

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