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what size city/town do you live in? just wondering what the pattern will be


i live in southampton which has a population of between 250,000 and 300,000. for the UK that's a medium sized city, i'd say

1. Hamlet/village/smaller than 5,000
2. Small town - pop: 5,000
3. Medium town - pop: 5,000 to 20,000
4. Large town - pop: 20,000 to 70,000
5. Small city - pop: 70,000 to 150,000
6. Medium city - pop: 150,000 to 350,000
7. Large city - pop: 350,000 to 1,000,000
8. Proper-big city: pop: over 1,000,000
9. Even bigger city (larger than, say, 5,000,000)

Wellington, New Zealand

I live in Dublin, along with about 1.1 million other people.

also bear in mind that i'm sure most americans cities will be larger than those in Europe
Actually Europe has cities just as big as America. London and Moscow come to mind but there are also the likes of Paris and Rome whic are home to many millions of people.

The difference is that in America it's much easier to qualify as a "city" no matter how small you actually are.

Glasgow, Scotland: 612,000 (Large City)
or, Greater Glasgow, Scotland: 2.1 million (Proper-big City)

I live in a large city - Glasgow. The real one, in Scotland. I can't imagine anyone choosing option 2 though, it's not really got the widest parameters :D

I live in Dublin, along with about 1.1 million other people.


Actually Europe has cities just as big as America. London and Moscow come to mind but there are also the likes of Paris and Rome whic are home to many millions of people.

The difference is that in America it's much easier to qualify as a "city" no matter how small you actually are.
we have a few cities of comparible size, but they have more large ones... is what i meant. sorry i was up before 4am this morning and i've already driven to london and back this morning - i'm not really going to be with it today :p


oh and poll added

The best thing to come out of Glasgow is the road to Edinburgh!



As you may have guessed I live in Edinburgh, the Capital city of Scotland. :D

Edinburgh - Medium City

Bristol, in the West Country for me.

Billingshurst, West Sussex

It's something between a large village and small town. I voted village.

Lake Elsinore, CA. population is about 40k, which to technically a small city. And it's getting 1,000+ every year. Plus, when you figure in outlying areas like Lakeland Village, North Elsinore, Terra Cotta, Alberhill, etc.

Hamlet/village/smaller than 5,000
Small town - pop: 5,000
Medium town - pop: 5,000 to 20,000
Large town - pop: 20,000 to 70,000
Small city - pop: 70,000 to 200,000
Medium city - pop: 200,000 to 500,000
Large city - pop: 500,000 to 1,500,000
Proper-big city: pop: 1,500,000 to 5,000,000
Even bigger city (larger than 5,000,000)

Brisbane, Australia ;)

'Village' of about 7,000 just outside Nottingham. Except it's almost a suburb now, so i don't know whether I should be 3 - Medium Town (except it's not - it's just a village really), or 6 - Medium City (I think Nottingham is in the region of 250,000, but I might be wrong)

Nottingham City is 270,000. Greater Nottingham (which would include me I guess) is over 600,000. So make that 7 - Big City.

Proper big city - Warsaw, Poland

I live in Cork( Irelands real capital) which has over 500,000 ppl.

I live in a large city with around 1 million people, Cincinnati OH.

I live in a town of 180.000+ people, which apparently is a "small" city. Well, in Sweden, this is a "Big" city!!! ;) In my case, 4th largest I believe in the country.

Melbourne has over 3 million people.

Hong Kong has 6-7 million people, which is pretty crazy since we're quite small.

Manistee has a population of about 6,500. Technically that falls under medium town on the poll, but I think that small town is a much more accurate description so I chose that.

Celbridge, Ireland

Calas

Petaling Jaya, suburbs next to Kuala Lumpur. Well, most people live around Kuala Lumpur, and drive/take public transport to Kuala Lumpur to work.

Thereabouts 2-3 million.

Medium city - pop: 200,000 to 500,000 in Gdynia Poland theres 220,000 people.

The City I live in Gdynia is overpopulated.

I currently live in Cottbus, which has about 100, 000 inhabitans (for now...). I've grown up in Berlin and spent a year in Munich, both of which are proper cities (argh! Just try finding a cinema in Cottbus that will play new movies in English!).

Colchester - pop.160,000. Qualifies as a small city under the PM scale, but it lacks a cathedral, and as such is just a large town.

Celbridge, Ireland

Calas
Go on the Celbridge!! iam also a Celbridgian. In the last few years my town has gone up in thousands because of the overflow of feckin Dublin bastards!! I used to have a load of fields down the road until bout 3 years ago, now its all big housing estates.

I live in Highbridge, Somerset.

A town with exactly 5000 inhabitants. Although, I'm not there now.

Interesting. I never thought of my lil town here as being a "large town," but it's over 20,000 so ... !

A satellite town of Houston, called Tomball. A shithole if I ever saw one. The population's around 18,000, but it's such a pile that they haven't updated the city population signs since 1993.

The City I live in Gdynia is overpopulated.
If you think 220,000 is overpopulated, you've probably never heard about New York City.

If you think 220,000 is overpopulated, you've probably never heard about New York City.

Hong Kong is far more over-populated. 6.8 million people in 200 square kilometres.

Interesting. I never thought of my lil town here as being a "large town," but it's over 20,000 so ... !

That's definitely a big town over here. In fact, most towns that size over here have become known as "cities", though they're not exactly that big...

Me, I live in a major metropolis, Sydney to be precise.

:) I'm soo glad I don't have to drive over the bridge though... (believe me, it's a nightmare in peak hour.

A satellite town of Houston, called Tomball. A shithole if I ever saw one. The population's around 18,000, but it's such a pile that they haven't updated the city population signs since 1993.
Why are you so damned cynical? Why is that?

That's definitely a big town over here. In fact, most towns that size over here have become known as "cities", though they're not exactly that big...

Me, I live in a major metropolis, Sydney to be precise.

:) I'm soo glad I don't have to drive over the bridge though... (believe me, it's a nightmare in peak hour.
Heh! Well, I don't really have to drive anywhere, but traffic around here between Greensboro and Winston-Salem during rush hour is murder as far as I'm concerned. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like in NYC!

I live in Omaha Nebraska, our pop is about 409,114 (2004 est.), nice place not to big not to small, I like it better then big cities.

Colchester - pop.160,000. Qualifies as a small city under the PM scale, but it lacks a cathedral, and as such is just a large town.
lol "the PM" scale... its copyrighted you know - you now owe me 20 quid ;)



edit: and a disclaimer: the scale was arbitarily made up on the spot, so, uh, there'll probably be lots of complaints and such

Heh! Well, I don't really have to drive anywhere, but traffic around here between Greensboro and Winston-Salem during rush hour is murder as far as I'm concerned. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like in NYC!

poor new yorkers. There's really no solution. I mean if everyone abandoned their cars, you'd still get gridlock, it'd just be fleshier, and you'd get terrible injuries from the pedestrian-rage, bruised ribs from the accidental elbow ribbings.... and it'd be all close and clammy too.... woo, nightmare in the summer.

Why are you so damned cynical? Why is that?

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

Heh! Well, I don't really have to drive anywhere, but traffic around here between Greensboro and Winston-Salem during rush hour is murder as far as I'm concerned. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like in NYC!I never had to drive anywhere when I was in Berlin or Munich (though biking was faster in Munich, since where I lived was only just within the city limits). They have public transportation... :D

poor new yorkers. There's really no solution. I mean if everyone abandoned their cars, you'd still get gridlock, it'd just be fleshier, and you'd get terrible injuries from the pedestrian-rage, bruised ribs from the accidental elbow ribbings.... and it'd be all close and clammy too.... woo, nightmare in the summer.
LOL! Well, somehow they not only survive through all that, they actually thrive. Wonder if there's some hormone or gene that enables them to do that? Just think, we could synthesize it and market it under some catchy name like "Urban Warrior Cologne!" :D

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Good morning, Fass. Thank you for reminding me why I dislike GBS. :D

Interesting. I never thought of my lil town here as being a "large town," but it's over 20,000 so ... !


I voted medium for our town. My thinking was we are closer to 20k than 70k. I guess I should've picked large since it is slightly over 20k ..

I don't live in an incorperated town... Fallston, MD - 8,000 people 98% White-Protestants... Do you have unincoperated towns in other countries...

Good morning, Fass. Thank you for reminding me why I dislike GBS. :D

Greatness is your bane, I know. :p

Greatness is your bane, I know. :p
ROFL! Um ... perhaps that is why I came to like you, yes? :D

ROFL! Um ... perhaps that is why I came to like you, yes? :D

Self-destructive tendencies are not uncommon in soldier types. ;)

For Gods sake, get a room you 2^^^

For Gods sake, get a room you 2^^^
ROFLMAO!!! As IF! Fass is gay, and I'm so whitebread that it's almost sickening. We're just friends. :D

Self-destructive tendencies are not uncommon. ;)
ROFL! You are, as always, eloquent in your brevity. :)

ROFLMAO!!! As IF! Fass is gay, and I'm so whitebread that it's almost sickening. We're just friends. :D

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it! *snaps fingers in zed-pattern*

Ah, this is why I love NS, the natives... lol

ROFL! You are, as always, eloquent in your brevity. :)

That's what happens when one finds oral diarrhoea to be such an unsightly phenomenon.

That's what happens when one finds oral diarrhoea to be such an unsightly phenomenon.
ROFLMFAO!!!!! Excellent! :D

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it! *snaps fingers in zed-pattern*Meh, I've been to a proctologist before and that was bad enough...

Hong Kong is far more over-populated. 6.8 million people in 200 square kilometres.
Well, the point is that Gdynia, Poland is far from being overpopulated.

I'm in a township of just 75,000 people in southern, coastal NJ. Its been rated the second safest city in the US for the past several years. I love it here.

Meh, I've been to a proctologist before and that was bad enough...

Cock != sigmoidoscope. Proctologist != proficient top. :)

Cock != sigmoidoscope. Proctologist != proficient top. :)Considering how little he did and how extremely uncomfortable it was, I'd rather not repeat the experience...

Cock != sigmoidoscope. Proctologist != proficient top. :)
Damn, Fass! You make it sound almost ... interesting! ROFL! :p

I live in Burlington, which is just south of Toronto. It's a small city, according to the poll, and the population is about 160,000+. But when you consider the GTA(Greater Toronto Area), the overal population is over 5.1 million, almost half the entire provincial population. The GTA includes Toronto, Mississauga, Oshawa, Whitby, Oakville, Burlington, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, Etobikoke, North York, and many others that would take up too much space in this reply.
(This is Canada, I'm talking about, by the way)

Hmm... Well I live in too many places to give an exact. I have an apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel.... Large city; One in New York state, Meduim sized city, and a house that I use as a cottage in a small place called pillar point new york. These are just my main ones

Considering how little he did and how extremely uncomfortable it was, I'd rather not repeat the experience...

Übung macht den Meister, und einmal ist keinmal. :p

/Enough. Let's let the thread get back on course.

I'm in the small city of Trenton, NJ (http://www.ci.trenton.nj.us/).

Meh, I've been to a proctologist before and that was bad enough...


Did it involve a coffee colonic? That was no proctologist!!!

I'm in the small city of Trenton, NJ (http://www.ci.trenton.nj.us/).

I used to work near there in Monroe. Used to fly out of Robbinsville Airport.

A couple of my guys lived in Trenton.

Übung macht den Meister, und einmal ist keinmal. :p

/Enough. Let's let the thread get back on course.
Right. But first let me correct the statement: Three strikes and your out. ;)

I live in a village in northern NY, population 750. There are no strangers, we even know everybody's dog by name.

Right. But first let me correct the statement: Three strikes and your out. ;)

And let me correct your spelling:

Three strikes and you're out.

:p

I used to work near there in Monroe. Used to fly out of Robbinsville Airport.

A couple of my guys lived in Trenton.
I've built alot of swimming pools in Monroe. One of my friends has a pilot's license and he's flown me to NY city from Robbinsville airport. Small world. Or maybe it's just a small state. Either way as Steven Wright says, I wouldn't want to paint it.

Hmm... Well I live in too many places to give an exact. I have an apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel.... Large city; One in New York state, Meduim sized city, and a house that I use as a cottage in a small place called pillar point new york. These are just my main ones
damn :eek: just how rich are you??

Medway towns pop. 249,700 or in more detail Rochester pop. 20,000

I live in Hong Kong, population 6.8 million and the greatest city in the world.

75,000 people are in my town and noone out of the immediate area have heard of it.

Medium city....Greater Belfast is about 450,000 people.

what size city/town do you live in? just wondering what the pattern will be


i live in southampton which has a population of between 250,000 and 300,000. for the UK that's a medium sized city, i'd say

One huge mofo of a city. Los Angeles. The entire metropolitan area's population is 17,545,600. The city is nearly 1200 square kilometers (465 square miles).

One huge mofo of a city. Los Angeles. The entire metropolitan area's population is 17,545,600.

Los Angeles is *massive*, man. Still, it's not as big as New York City, which has a little over 30,000,000 in its metropolitan area. It's behind Tokyo by about 3,700,000.

Now, Tokyo... That's a whole other ballgame. Whoa.

Los Angeles is *massive*, man. Still, it's not as big as New York City, which has a little over 30,000,000 in its metropolitan area. It's behind Tokyo by about 3,700,000.

Now, Tokyo... That's a whole other ballgame. Whoa.
perhaps i should have added some kind of "ridiculously huge" option to the poll :eek:

perhaps i should have added some kind of "ridiculously huge" option to the poll :eek:

Haha, possibly! Tokyo is the world's largest, dude. Nothing's bigger.

A constant city within a 40-mile radius. It's ridiculous! You know how difficult that is to make on Sim City 4!?

I am in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (One of the best cities in the country, if not the world, I think); but only until next Thursday, when I move to a tiny little back-of-beyond air force base in Ontario for a week and then move from there to uni in lovely Ottawa.

I live in Burlington, which is just south of Toronto. It's a small city, according to the poll, and the population is about 160,000+. But when you consider the GTA(Greater Toronto Area), the overal population is over 5.1 million, almost half the entire provincial population. The GTA includes Toronto, Mississauga, Oshawa, Whitby, Oakville, Burlington, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, Etobikoke, North York, and many others that would take up too much space in this reply.
(This is Canada, I'm talking about, by the way)

Yay Oshawa! My birthplace (even though my family is from Cape Breton)!

Melbourne, about 3.4 million...

Houston's total population (metro area) is 5,176,061, and it keeps growing at a rapid pace. I mean, back in 1993, the drive from Tomball to downtown Houston looked totally different than it does now. Buildings just keep popping up all over the place...

Manchester has around a million people, more if you're talking about the entire Greater Manchester area. It is the UK's third largest city I believe, unless we have overtaken Birmingham.

My town is small enough to not have a mayor or leader of any sort OR many stores... I think we have four.

._.;

I think it's a medium town though, not sure. Even though I pass a sign that says about how many there are daily. XD

The closest town to me has maybe 15 people in it, but it comes complete with a Moose Lodge, Church, junkyard, and a one room school that I have to pay insane taxes on.

Ah...the small town Michigan life.

Boston proper is 590,000, but the metropolitan area is 5.8 million. So I voted for even bigger city.

One huge mofo of a city. Los Angeles. The entire metropolitan area's population is 17,545,600. The city is nearly 1200 square kilometers (465 square miles).
Whereas London covers 1584 sq km but only has a population of 7.2m. I always thought London sprawled a lot. Hooray for the English love of gardens! :)

My city is maybe 300,000 people.

I live in a new town of around 60,000 people, called Cumbernauld, built in the 60's to move people out of the slums of a large city - Glasgow, Scotland

Well beat this!!


Maint, North Dakota

Population----35!!! I own all of you =D

I go to school in a town of 1,200 people. Then there are various other towns that go to taht school all with populations under 100.

I live in a medium sized town in southern California...Miraculously, we have our own school district...

We should all be so lucky to come from this town.

http://www.wigfield.com/

I live in Fredericia. (I'd bet NO ONE of you knows where that is :p )

Anyways theres about 50,000 pop.

live in the mountains of central Pennsylvania (USA), we'd be hard-pressed to get 2500 people together in the whole township. It is a marvelously wonderful lifestyle though!

Fredericia, Denmark, No?

I live in Rochester, NY, which has 200,000 inhabitants. However, many people count metro areas when talking of cities. In that case, there are 1,000,000 here.

a few interesting things i found when looking up my own fair city:


It was the original point of departure for the Pilgrim Fathers aboard the Mayflower. A memorial may be found on Town Quay

In common with most of the luxury liners of the time, the Titanic sailed from here, and it is still an important ocean liner port frequented by luxury ships such as the QE2, the Oriana, and most recently the Queen Mary 2 (which i saw leave on its maiden voyage a couple of months back). A memorial to the crew of the Titanic may be found in Andrews Park, on Above Bar Street.

It was a Southampton [football club] team member, Charles William Miller, who founded Brazil's first football club.

The Second World War hit Southampton particularly hard, because of its strategic importance as the major industrial area on the South Coast

there's a memorial by the Bargate that says 50,000 civilians and troops lost their lives in the bombing of the city in WW2 (as it was a military port, too - plenty of troops about; plus its one of the first and easiest places for nazi bombers to reach across the channel)

i also understand that Southampton University developed the first fibre optic cables (apparently lasers is the uni's specialist research field) :)


there, you learn something new every day :P

I live in Rochester, NY, which has 200,000 inhabitants. However, many people count metro areas when talking of cities. In that case, there are 1,000,000 here.

I'm east of you in the Adirondacks. A lot of Rochester people vacation here.

Fredericia, Denmark, No?
How did you know???

I live 30 minutes away from Edward's Air Force Base, and there are about 300,000 people. Although, because we have Lockhead Martin and all of the Air & Space Institutions, the population is increasing at a steady rate.

Although, I'll be moving to Yancyville, North Carolina right after I go to Italy on Saturday.

i live in tyler, tx at the moment. it's got a bit more than 80,000 people, apparently, but the whole thing is so spread out that it feels like a small town that goes on for miles and miles and not so much what i would call a proper city of any type. then again, i did grow up in Vermont, where there is far less space, unlike down here where it's a damn shame if you don't have enough property to your name to warrant buying a tractor mower.

I live in a town with a population of about 3000. In Lapland. In Finland.

God, I'm such a hick.

I live in Austin, NOT Texas. Austin, Minnesota. With about 30,000 other people. It's south of the Twin Cities.

I Live in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, which happens to be the biggest town in Britain, but compared to your average american town is quite small. And for all you americans out there, Yorkshire is pronounced Yorkshur. You don't say it as if the shire was a completely seperate word.

we have a few cities of comparible size, but they have more large ones... is what i meant. sorry i was up before 4am this morning and i've already driven to london and back this morning - i'm not really going to be with it today :p


oh and poll added
If you´re gonna play it that way... It´s believed roughly ½ of the earths human population live in the major cities of Asia and Africa, and at about 2050 it´s possible that number will be 3/4 of all humans. So those cities should outnumber both american and european.

Oh, and I live in Norberg, roughly 6,000 inhabitants and 702 years old. I.e.: We´re not big, but old :P

I'm east of you in the Adirondacks. A lot of Rochester people vacation here.
I've actually never stayed in the Adirondacks, just drive through there. But it's a beautiful place. My sister stays a friend's cabin on Lake George, though. Anyhow, where do you live exactly?

Los Angeles is *massive*, man. Still, it's not as big as New York City, which has a little over 30,000,000 in its metropolitan area. It's behind Tokyo by about 3,700,000.

Now, Tokyo... That's a whole other ballgame. Whoa.

I think it'll overtake New York City in the future because NYC is limited by space. Los Angeles isn't. Lets face it, there is a huge influx happening here. Not that is a good thing. And no, New York City as a whole has 22 million. Los Angeles isn't too far away.

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

"which is one of the largest urban conglomerations in the world with a population of over 22 million"

Los Angeles after all is growing very quickly...

I've actually never stayed in the Adirondacks, just drive through there. But it's a beautiful place. My sister stays a friend's cabin on Lake George, though. Anyhow, where do you live exactly?

We spend a week in Lake George every summer with friends-its an annual ritual my kids look foward to all year.
next year, we may camp out on one of the islands there.

Hong Kong, which has a population of just under 7mill (6,898,686 as of July 2005 according to the CIA handbook). Where I live, the population density is around 50 000 p/sq km.

Prior to this I was living in Kaitaia, NZ which has a population of a 3 or 4 thousand. The whole Far North region, which is probably twice the size of Hong Kong region has a population of 15 000.

Smallest place I ever lived was on Great Barrier island which at that time had a total population of about 700. This on an island of 285 sq km (in other words a population density of 2.4/sq km). Great Barrier island is 1/4 the area of Hong Kong region, though probably equal in size to the inhabitated areas of HK, as surprisingly more than 3/4 of the region is undeveloped and been left as country parks and nature reserves.

i live in us but i also live in the south and not in atl. new orleans houston or raleigh my town bout 30000

I live in Austin, NOT Texas. Austin, Minnesota. With about 30,000 other people. It's south of the Twin Cities.


hey, hey, hey-austin, tx is barely texas, as the bad connotations go. i used to live there. it's a great place.