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Originally Posted by jayden
I like most consider Atlanta to be an international city, and easily one of the most well known within the US, but still a step or two below the Chicago's, LA's and NYC's of the world.
Aside from population, obviously, what keeps Atlanta from reaching these heights?
I would say it's a mixture of heavy rail transportation, and remnants of Old-South conservatism prohibiting more explosive multi-cultural growth.
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There are plenty of reasons. Tourism is one. New York has Times square, Rockefeller, Statue of liberty, unbelievable Broadway scene, ect... Chicago has Michigan Ave, and a food scene identity and much more. LA has Hollywood and every amusement park imaginable. I personally love touring and visiting each of these cities. And to me Atlanta has absolutely nothing for me that's worth visiting. So if someone like me from the USA doesn't feel its really worth touring there then why would people from outside of the USA care about visiting there? Making it less known from a world scale.
Then Chicago and New York (LA to an extent) Has a lot of historical atmosphere to the city. You go to Chicago or New York and the history is fascinating and has developed an atmosphere with time and history on their side. Atlanta doesn't really have that. LA has Hollywood and that set the atmosphere there and put them on a world scale. Atlanta doesn't feel a whole lot different from Phoenix. Except maybe being greener and more humid. But they are both relatively new, sprawled as can be, and no real identity of culture as most people are transplants. As say for Chicago the natives keep the identity of the city alive and all the culture and stereotypes alive.
I'll give one last thing also but Atlanta, though a large city, just doesn't compare to LA, Chicago, or New York simply because it is far from being large enough. Atlanta is large, the other three are just massive. That has a large reason to why outside the US it may not be quite as notable or well known. Think about it. When we think about other cities in the world we don't instantly think of Melborne, Hamburg, Budapest, and Brussels. All huge cities. Instead we think of the Largest cities out there, like Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paris, London, Seoul, Sydney, ect. So why would it be so much different outside the US? People of course are going to think of New York, Chicago, LA over Cleveland, Atlanta, Denver, San Diego, San Antonio; which are all huge cities in their own rights.