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

[chequita guevara]

New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Seoul.

I'm kinda limited in my choices because many of those cities have severe air quality problems, what with me being asthmatic and all. A lot of the Third World cities also have additional problems such as corrupt and thuggish police, heavy crime, unstable governments, bad water, etc.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin


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.

I'm interested in how they are counting NY's population then. The last census had the population of New York, which was counting all the burroughs, as just over 8 million. The 16 million figure would seem to be counting satellite townships in the commuter belt.

[SpencerH]

I've grown so used to living in small towns or semi-rural cities that I dont think I'd want to live in a big city anymore.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I'm interested in how they are counting NY's population then.

Add the suburbs.

[Solly]

For example, my official address' third line is Manchester, and yet I live in the city of Salford..

[Harovan]

None of them, I don't like big cities.

[Solly]

Me neither.

But I said that already ant a.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

Add the suburbs.

Seems to be rather arbitrary if they aren't counting the suburbs of London...

[Spiffor]

I think they are counting the suburbs of London (read SG's post)

As for my answers : Paris (duh), NY, Tokyo and Osaka.

[Richelieu]

I'm a small town boy myself but i'd consider Paris (ze rive-gauche, ze parisiennes, etc...) NY (Cuz its NY) and Tokyo (I'd like to get a feel for the culture).

edit : spel.

[Solly]

The problem with suburbs in the UK is that cities are so close to each other.

For example, Manchester is either the second or third biggest city in the UK depending on the definition you take, and its "suburbs" include Salford whose centre is just two miles from Manchester's.

[Boris Godunov]

Exactly. If they are counting Hoboken, Jersey City or (worse) Newark as NY suburbs, I'd think that was being inaccurate.

[Sonic]

Boris, why? Jersey, Hoboken, are just a river away from Manhetten. As I said before, suburbs are considered part of town if they connects with it...

[FrustratedPoet]

From that list, just Paris.
I'd also like to live in Prague ... in fact I'd probably move there tomorrow if I had a job there and if I spoke Czech.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Sonic
Boris, why? Jersey, Hoboken, are just a river away from Manhetten. As I said before, suburbs are considered part of town if they connects with it...

London has masses of green belt land around it designed to prevent urban sprawl. This gives 'unfair' comparison with cities like LA and NY which are in effect counted as their associated conurbations.