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Originally Posted by trueviking
pj, i really dont get your argument....winnipeg competes with calgary and toronto for commerce the same way jacksonville does with atlanta and orlando....its just that there are hundreds of miles of nothing in between....being a hub for thousands of kilometers of tundra doesnt create wealth....i would think that having 1.3m people living right next door would do more for a city than being a hub for that same amount of people spread across a thousand kilometers.
i wont argue that winnipeg is more important to canada than jacksonville is to the US and that it has a greater proportion of its commerce, but that is a percentage of a much smaller total...skylines are caused by total commerce, not percentage of commerce.
i was including florida state college in my numbers...maybe thats not a university...i dont get the american system.
i wont say any more on the subject....thanks for the debate.
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No it doesn't... not at all. Maybe Calgary to a small degree, but Winnipeg competing with Toronto for commerce?... no way it is analogous to Jacksonville being in close proximity and competing with cities like Atlanta,Orlando, Tampa. Sorry, that's just not true. Jacksonville is just one city in a region dominated by other metro areas.
And, we already went through the GDP numbers. Skylines are built by concentration of commerce, not total commerce specifically. There are many examples within the US of smaller cities having more impressive skylines than larger cities due to their locations and concentrations of commercial/institutional/educational activity.
Florida State University is in Tallahassee. There's a small branch campus in Jacksonville, I think... that's probably where you might have gotten the high number... it may have listed all of Florida State's student population, but it's definitely not in Jacksonville.
It's an interesting debate and I acknowledge and respect your ideas, though we disagree on some of the specifics. All in all, good conversation... not always easy to come by on here. For what it's worth, every Canadian city that I've been too is way cooler than Jacksonville.