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Originally Posted by Bailey
London and Paris once said the same thing about 'colonial' New York City and then watched NYC pass them in almost every measurable category a dominant Alpha City.
Will it happen someday...who knows?? But Houston is not land locked like the others and it is WAY further along than NYC was when it was only 183 years old!
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That’s why I was always considering what could change if one of these became the largest. When you are large in population as a city, you hold more authority, more capita, more power. These things don’t matter as much now since we are more multi-nodal, but NYC being bigger than London and Paris was obviously a benefit that only increased its influence even if it wasn’t a national capital like the other two.
Throughout world history, the largest cities are usually the most powerful and influential of their territory, region, country, and even the world during their era.