You call your town a city?!?!?!?!?!

New York



...that's a city

Chicago



...that's a city

Hong Kong



...that's a city

But you can't really call your town a city!

Pthththtpt!

Washington, D.C. is a city. Both are missing those flipping enormous skyscrapers. Both are, consequently, beautiful in a very refined way.

:P :P

DC is a nice Southern Town with some cool sights.

now Shanghai, China however.....

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,190444,00.jpg

And it's definitely a town:

Bangor is something, all right.

:P

have teeth and running water. Personal hygiene isn't everything, you know.

Edited because at my end of the state, people sometimes forget to put the apostrophe in the word "you're".

'Round about P-Town, we LIKE personal hygiene. Don't know about you backwoods rednecks, though...

:P

In Wales - now that's what I call a city. Population 1600. :P

http://www.stdavids.gov.uk/

Villages are nice...fun...quaint even.

But cities they are not.

The whole cathedral thing is long passed - it was legally granted city status in 1995.

That's what makes a city a city over here.

Villages are villages - and they're charming (I say that living in one). Places which have legal city status are cities whether people like it or not.

During junior year abroad at U of Kent, Canterbury, lo those 20-odd years ago, one of my young English friends told me that the one place I had to visit was the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Couldn't be more beautiful; it's where all the English people go to vacation, he told me. (This, it turns out, was one of those "it's nice, actually," stunts you lot like to play on naive Americans, like the &*%#@ Scotch egg. But that's ok, too.)

So I went. I wasn't really so goddam naive as all that; I knew even then that English people mostly vacation in southern Portugal, so I figured he was probably taking the piss. But I went anyway. It is a nice cathedral as cathedrals go, but coming from Canterbury it would have had to be pretty spectacular to make much of an impression. As to the coast path, uh, let's just say that the weather wasn't friendly. I got about at the midpoint when it started drizzling, so it made no difference whether I turned around or muddled on. It kept pissing and pissing rain and I got more and more miserable. For the next decade, people who knew me really well knew that "like the rains of Pembrokeshire" meant that things were going very badly indeed.

Bright spot: I did get to drink Brains. (Don't remember if I did, really, but the story just needed a cheerful kicker.:))

:hi: :thumbsup:

Do you want to borrow a hand-kerchief now?

chicago will be one of the few remaining "cities"...

the ones on the ocean coasts will have to deal with a 20 ft. rise in sea levels.

However I also have faith FEMA will screw those up too...

Not as big as those cities, but a city nonetheless.

kind of like the "no flag no country" rule...

;)

:P

:thumbsup:

Because the smog rarely lets you see them.

But on a clear day, LA can be one of the most magnificent desert towns in the world ;)

You can go skiing and surfing in the same day. ;)

City-slickers are an alien breed to me.

:D :P

I grew up in a town of 500 people in the midwest and I figured LA out really quickly.

In fact, see that ginormous freeway in that pic? I drive that to get to work. Actually, you can see my place of employment in that pic!

I'm new here, but I love it! :)

And then they told everyone that the suburbs were the city, and everyone believed it.

LA is just world's largest suburban sprawl with no real city in the center. They gotta do something to that "downtown".

they are doing things. Give it another couple of years, but trust me...downtown LA will be more than a place to go to work and then leave as quickly as possible. ;)

...a few Brazillion of em'.




Rio de Janeiro...


Tikki

A municipality of less than 5,000 is a village. A municipality of greater than 5,000 people is a city.
I live in Wisconsin now and aren't sure about their rules because some smaller municapalities are called cities with larger municipalities being caller villages (I don't mean like Milwaukee I mean municipalities in the 2,000-20,000 range.). In Wisconsin, the term town means township.
Sometimes I call the municapality of my birth a small city or large town or small town depending on the other person's reference point. The place I live in now I usually call a small town. I called Toledo a city, sometimes a small city around people like you.

I might, if I thought a concentration of people was something to be especially proud of.

Usually though I just refer, albeit fondly, to my town.

Sacramento is an overgrown farmstand.

;-)

by my scale

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4022336#4024347

Probably this has been done officially, and some dictionary or geographer might correct me, but this is about how I would define them.
<100 Macbeth
<1000 Hamlet
<5000 Othello, I mean village
<15000 small town
<25000 town, small city
<75000 city
<250000 big city
>250000 city city bang bang, I mean metropolis
>1,000,000 clusterfu$%
>5,000,000 abomination

http://rockymountainscenery.com/alaska/21d.html

I think you are in Denali

and what about these?

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/2004/03/hubble_shoots_v.html

which, of course, are not as visible due to all the light pollution emanating from those abominations.

But what the heck, if western civilization survives, in 200 years this planet will be Trantor.

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

And large cities are not abominations.

Nothing wrong with big cities or little towns...

In fact, I like being in a big city when I'm in the mood. Nothing like being in downtown Chicago or NYC on a summer night, around dusk, hungry and passing a million different restaraunts that serve a million different dishes.

aA

It's Cranleigh, and I lived there from 1976 (from age 2) to 1999 (with break 1993-1997 for attending university in Dundee, Scotland).

Here's a brief picture tour.

It's certainly much bigger than St. Davids.

Picture showing the Water Fountain, with the shopping area in the distance.


The church I went to: St. Nicolas.


We used to have a cinema. I went there as a kid, and after a brief spell living elsewhere, we mvoed into a house behind the cinema; you can see the driveway to the right hand side.

The cinema is demolished now.

The village hall. Our karate club when I was a kid met here. Often used for Women's Institute meetings in the past (though I think they use the bandroom now since it's cheaper).


Where my aunt still works (sorry can't find better picture) - she started at 15. She's been there 30+ years.


The hospital. Needless to say this is the original part; and is the UK's first village hospital.


The Arts Centre. Now if you want to see a film in Cranleigh, they show them here.


Glebelands School. I "Graduated" (if you can say that) in 1991. Now on its fourth headteacher. My dad went here too.


Where I used to live (well very close by and same style of house).

This one's on the market for... about $400,000.

That's all I could google of my home village for now.

Mark.

Who sang that?

Look closely..its Tokyo Tower...

Rainen Scoeysan wa Tokyo ni Ikimasu!! Waku Waku Suru!

incorporated...more like a little village actually

I call it a town. I can do this because I am at ease with the size of my penis.

:hi: :thumbsup: about being at ease and all. lol

My town, that is. ;) It is quite picturesque from a number of angles. It is very diverse ethnically, with quite a large Italian population. Why that should be, I don't know. It is quite a small town, with a population of about 150,000. Shopping-wise it is dwarfed by a nearby new town, which some people say is sucking the life out of the place...but then some people always say that. It's pretty quiet, but I like it that way.

:hug:

It's very beautiful. :)

legally a city, but only has about 2,000 people.

Redstone

I can see the twin beams from my window every 9/11.
It's such a beautiful sight.

And so sad.

Only been there once, but never went hungry.

All those lights reflecting in the water, the mountians beyond. But I like NY and would like to check out Boston and Chicago. I live in a town but it's called a city. After living in Los Angeles it's just a joke to me.

Town comes from Old English and City comes from Latin, but mean "large sttlement." I use the terms interchangibly.

I guess, since I am a Chicagoan, I can call my city a town or my town a city.

It's a helluva town"

la la la

It says so right on the title.

In San Diego it's all about the beach baby!

Can we be a city? Pleeeeeeeease?