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Most important city on Earth.

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    #62
    twinytwo
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Historically, it's Rome.. That city has influenced the world far more than any other in history between empires and religion.

    Currently, it's probably New York.

    Ill raise you london on that one...


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    #63
    CINCLANTFLT
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    It's interesting that no one said Brussels...


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    #64
    Zebra3
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    Ashgabat.


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    #65
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    The London answers are funny. It's the worldwide centre of no industry;, not finance, media, movies, software, nor... whatever else goes on there. Tourism?


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    #66
    jessiejam
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    No. Palo Alto/Cupertino is. San Jose is mostly like Swords lets say. Residential/commercial. The industry is out of town.

    The answer is London - by a wide margin.


    Aside: I had no idea so many Cork people used boards!!!!

    Cork has the internet too and even elecricity can you believe it!:eek:
    On a side note the most important city is probably where Angela Merkel lives I suppose:o


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    #67
    dd972
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    Probably be NY or Shanghai, London thinks it's mega important due to it's size and the financial district being there, 75% of London is a pointless nothingsville


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    #68
    brimal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭brimal


    A Primal Nut wrote: »
    Culture: Los Angeles.

    Technology: San Diego.

    Economics: New York or Shanghai

    Politics: Washington or Beijing.

    International Relations: Jerusalem.

    This is pretty much on point.

    I would probably add Tel Aviv to Technology too.


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    #69
    Celly Smunt
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    El paso,a.k.a Dundalk.


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    #70
    Dangerous Man
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    eth0 wrote: »
    If a Nuclear bomb landed on Cork in the morning we wouldn't notice any difference because it's a kip.

    FYP


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    #71
    youreadthat
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    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    The London answers are funny. It's the worldwide centre of no industry;, not finance, media, movies, software, nor... whatever else goes on there. Tourism?

    Your ignorance is funnier.


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    #72
    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Cashel

    Even a Clareman like Brian Boru knew that Tipp was the place to be :cool:


    Ah he only went there to put manners on ye :p


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    #73
    EoghanIRL
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    A Primal Nut wrote: »
    Culture: Los Angeles.

    Technology: San Diego.

    Economics: New York or Shanghai

    Politics: Washington or Beijing.

    International Relations: Jerusalem.
    Culture: Cork

    Technology : Cork

    Economics: Cork

    Politics : Cork

    International relations : Cork

    There I fixed your post


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    #74
    TheUsual
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    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Cork : Cork
    Corkology : Cork
    Corkomics: Cork
    Corkitics : Cork
    There I fixed your post

    I fixed it for you.
    P.S. Please take back Eddie Hobbes, he is just getting bleedin annoying at this stage.


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    #75
    GCU Flexible Demeanour
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    Gangnam district, Seoul.

    For at least another three weeks, at any rate.


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    #76
    FootShooter
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    NY and London are constantly ranked as top global cities. Also the UN headquarters is in NY.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city


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    #77
    Lapin
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    London.

    Boris should be mayor of the world !


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    #78
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    eth0 wrote: »
    Cork
    Almaviva wrote: »
    Cork.
    Obviously.
    How can someone not know that already?
    Chucken wrote: »
    Ya, The Peoples Republic Of Cork
    SeaFields wrote: »
    delighted so many people recognise cork as the most important city on earth.
    my my my wrote: »
    berlin or Cork
    Chucken wrote: »
    No. we're saying Cork, not town ;)
    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Cork city :D
    TheComeUp wrote: »
    Cork [∞]

    /thread
    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Culture: Cork

    Technology : Cork

    Economics: Cork

    Politics : Cork

    International relations : Cork

    ^^^^^^^^^^

    Alteady the world capital of the inferiority complex and the source of second city syndrome !

    Sorry Cork, but the world needs leaders - Not langers. :p


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    #79
    caste_in_exile
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    St. Zenon


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    #80
    grenache
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    Rome, for obvious reasons.


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    #81
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    FootShooter wrote: »
    NY and London are constantly ranked as top global cities. Also the UN headquarters is in NY.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
    London is global alright, a global kip.


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    #82
    mikemac1
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    Sure nobody likes Cork

    Even the ESB hate you

    Time for another flooding!


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    #83
    steve9859
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    grenache wrote: »
    London is global alright, a global kip.
    Seriously, anyone who genuinely thinks that has got to take that chip off their shoulder....


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    #84
    Kold
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    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    The London answers are funny. It's the worldwide centre of no industry;, not finance, media, movies, software, nor... whatever else goes on there. Tourism?

    Yet it carries weight in every one of those industries. Also... FOOTBALL.

    Almost certainly London imo.


    Or Cork.


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    #85
    GCU Flexible Demeanour
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    Lapin wrote: »
    second city
    Belfast?


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    #86
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    youreadthat wrote: »
    Your ignorance is funnier.

    Explain to me what is London the centre of, with the exception of European finance. It also is big, but not the word's biggest in advertising. Both industries are zero sum games, creating nothing. My "ignorance" is waiting to be informed.

    It manufactures nothing. It has little or no cinema. Its big so but so Lagos, or Mexico city.

    If london disappeared tomorrow, then the world would carry on, after a day or two, transferring financial transactions to NY or Frankfurt, and advertising across the rest of Europe and NY. if silicon valley disappeared, the worldwide IT industry would collapse. If LA disappeared, cinema would never be the same. London has nothing.


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    #87
    summerskin
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    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    Explain to me what is London the centre of, with the exception of European finance. It also is big, but not the biggest in advertising. My "ignorance" is waiting to be informed.

    http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/10/the-worlds-most-important-cities-according-to-rich-people/

    This do for you?


    "Based on power within the global financial market, the market for luxury housing, economic opportunities, highbrow educational institutions, political influence, safety, knowledge, quality of life and more, the world’s top cities were wedged into a list. Only two countries had multiple city representatives, with the U.S. and China each tossing two within the top-10. London easily led the way for survey respondents based on everything from a powerful economy and a wonderful quality of life to its political and cultural influence and an ample supply of luxury housing"


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    #88
    summerskin
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    or maybe this, where London is second?

    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/node/373401

    "The Global Cities Index 2010
    In this second collaboration between Foreign Policy, A.T. Kearney, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, we bring you the world's top global cities.
    Rank City Rank by Population Rank by GDP
    1 New York 6 2
    2 London 28 5
    3 Tokyo 1 1
    4 Paris 20 6
    5 Hong Kong 31 14
    6 Chicago 25 4
    7 Los Angeles 12 3
    8 Singapore 38 23
    9 Sydney 43 24
    10 Seoul 22 19
    11 Brussels 54 48
    12 San Francisco 46 16
    13 Washington 42 10
    14 Toronto 36 20
    15 Beijing 13 33
    16 Berlin 48 46
    17 Madrid 34 22
    18 Vienna 55 40
    19 Boston 41 11
    20 Frankfurt 64 20
    20 Shanghai 7 21
    22 Buenos Aires 11 12
    23 Stockholm 59 52
    24 Zurich 61 58
    25 Moscow 19 13
    26 Barcleona 37 31
    27 Dubai 56 49
    28 Rome 49 37
    29 Amsterdam 63 60
    30 Mexico City 5 8
    31 Montreal 44 35
    32 Geneva 65 61
    33 Miami 58 54
    33 Munich 35 18
    35 Sao Paulo 3 9
    36 Bangkok 32 42
    37 Copenhagen 60 59
    38 Houston 40 17
    39 Taipei 53 26
    40 Atlanta 39 15
    41 Istanbul 21 30
    42 Milan 52 39
    43 Cairo 17 36
    44 Dublin 62 55
    45 New Delhi 2 32
    46 Mumbai 4 25
    47 Osaka 16 7
    48 Kuala Lumpur 57 65
    49 Rio de Janeiro 14 27
    50 Tel Aviv"


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    #89
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    steve9859 wrote: »
    Seriously, anyone who genuinely thinks that has got to take that chip off their shoulder....

    There is a larger cultural cringe to what is, in fact, a medicore Big City in the pro-London posts..


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    #90
    Wompa1
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    The most important city to me is usually the one I'm living in...


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    #91
    Duggys Housemate
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    summerskin wrote: »
    http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/10/the-worlds-most-important-cities-according-to-rich-people/

    This do for you?


    "Based on power within the global financial market, the market for luxury housing, economic opportunities, highbrow educational institutions, political influence, safety, knowledge, quality of life and more, the world’s top cities were wedged into a list. Only two countries had multiple city representatives, with the U.S. and China each tossing two within the top-10. London easily led the way for survey respondents based on everything from a powerful economy and a wonderful quality of life to its political and cultural influence and an ample supply of luxury housing"

    So rich people like London. Of course they do, it's a tax haven for rich people. And the quality of life is absolutely terrible for everybody else. Its political and cultural influence? Is that a joke? Do the respondents think that the world watches British TV, and British movies? Ludicrous. If you do watch the BBC, which is good but not great, a lot of the most watched TV is American. America leads in TV, music, Cinema, software.

    Education? Britain's best universities are not in London either.

    I am still waiting to see what the city actually produces.


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