In which of the 20 largest cities you'd agree to live? Multi-answer poll.

[Sonic]

Well, in which of those cities (20 largest (by population) in the world) you'd agree to live if someone offered you to do so? Please check ones you'd like to live and don't check ones you wouldn't like to live.

[Buck Birdseed]

All of those with reasonably democratic values, ie. all except the ones in china. The only other one I'm not sure about is LA, I hear it's quite boring. Of those I've been to from this list, I'd probably least like to live in Cairo, but anything is better than York really.

[Solly]

None.

[S. Kroeze]

It surprises me that London is not among the world's largest cities.
Are you sure?

[Solly]

The population of British cities is never calculated correctly due to tight administrative boundaries.

[Sonic]

In this listing cities are counted along with suburbs they are truly united (thus for example Tokyo is counted along with Yokohama, as they are united by their boundaries). Administrative boundaries doesn't means much here. London has population of 7 million according to this source.

[Buck Birdseed]

I know, it's awful. In fact, here's a Search Engine Challenge: find me the correct populations of the largest british cities by the population of the actual urban area. It's impossible, I've tried.

[Buck Birdseed]

It's a bad source then, as London has a population of just uder 12m if you count the whole urban area.

[Boris Godunov]

New York (fancy that!), Rio and Paris are it on this list. I would also happily live in Rome, London or Berlin. Prague and Vienna would also be on the list. In terms of other major U.S. cities, I would say Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego and Washington are the only ones I'd consider.

[Imran Siddiqui]

New York, Beijing, Rio de Janero, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Seoul.

[BeBMan]

Just curious - is this a complete list of the 20 biggest cities?

I ask because when I was in Egypt they said it (edit: err...Cairo of course) is the world´s fourth largest city (ca. 16-18 million inhabitants)...

Or is that your personal choice.

Oh, and to answer - I´m pretty satisfied in Berlin, but Paris, London or New York would certainly also be good.

[axi]

Right now, I'd rather go to Buenos Aires...
Paris is cool...
Mexico City and Rio too...

I wouldn't prefer an Arab, Chinese, Indian or American metropolis.

[SlowwHand]

And we wouldn't prefer you, Axi.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
It's a bad source then, as London has a population of just uder 12m if you count the whole urban area.

The census puts the population of Greater London, including all the boroughs, at 7,172,036.

The commuter belt extends outside, but if you start using that measure you may aswell count the whole of southeast England.

[Sonic]

BeBro, yes, this is true list of 1998.
Note that there are several types of counting population in cities.
First one is "official population", which is not realistic, since some cities does count whole population as official and some doesn't (for example NYC is officially made of several cities (Brooklin, Manhetten, Jersey, etc.), thus official NYC population isn't that high. While official Sydney population as an example is just 40'000 because only the downtown of Sydney is called Sydney, other parts of it are treated like separate cities).
Second way to count population is the one which is used here. It counts all the suburbs that are directly connected to city or to suburbs that are connected with city. It doesn't takes into account sometimes stupid official city borders. But however if suburb is away from city by even small distance, it isn't considered part of city this way.
Third type of counting populations is just counting either population in some radius from city centre or on some radius from city borders (for example, full city and 30km from it's borders). This is best for plan in which city to open bussines or plan airport locations, etc., but it isn't realistic.