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Poll: Most Iconic City: NYC or London?
View Poll Results: Most Iconic city?
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New York City
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71.72% |
London
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37 |
25.52% |
Other
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2.76% |
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction
Adele and Lily being the only WW representations.
Shall I list all the famous musicians, actors/actresses, celebrities, models, politicians, personalities, etc born and/or living in NY? Shall I obliterate?
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London: Queen Elizabeth II
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Why is this even a question? I love London, but New York...I mean...
New York all the way.
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Quote:
Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction
Adele and Lily being the only WW representations from London. Taking away the movies all based in NYC and saying NYC has no cultural impact.
Shall I list all the famous musicians, actors/actresses, celebrities, models, politicians, personalities, etc born and/or living in NY? Shall I list all the TV shows set in NYC? The countless movies?
Shall I obliterate?
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And M.I.A... and NY has nearly twice the number of people than London so obviously there'll be more. Plus, how does that number of famous musicians, actors/actressess, celebrities, models, politicians, personalities etc or number of TV studios make any difference to whether a city is iconic or not?
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Originally posted by Euan
London, definitely!
How can you say New York City when London is the financial capital of the world, with a history spanning THOUSANDS of years?
New York is such a young city with no history and little culture IMO.
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No history and little culture? True ignorance.
New York City from 1900-1940 alone has some of the most unique and fascinating cultural dynamic in the history of the world. No city has ever been formed or cultivated like NYC. London is very nice, but NYC is where it's at.
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London is more iconic overall, NYC is too young, not quite there yet but coming for London's wig at a rapid rate.
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London because class.
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Originally posted by HïFidelity
No history and little culture? True ignorance.
New York City from 1900-1940 alone has some of the most unique and fascinating cultural dynamic in the history of the world. No city has ever been formed or cultivated like NYC. London is very nice, but NYC is where it's at.
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Dear Lord, you cannot seriously 20th century NYC history to ancient and medieval London though can you?
The history of London negates any 'culture' from NYC. And I was born in the States.
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NY the true city of dreams.
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New York
Statue of Liberty/Liberty Island
Brooklyn Bridge
Empire State Building
Wall Street
Rockefellar Center
Central Park
Times Square
Washington Square Park
Chinatown
I'm not even American and I know more about New York than I do London... and i've been to London
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Not a local rapper born in NY being more prevalent WW than the Queen of England.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Euan
London, definitely!
How can you say New York City when London is the financial capital of the world, with a history spanning THOUSANDS of years?
New York is such a young city with no history and little culture IMO.
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NYC is the financial capital of the world. If anything, they stand alone together (with Tokyo following).
And London wasn't the center of the world for most of that history anyway.
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Dreams arent made in London, theyre made in NY
Its worldwide impact (U.N. headquarters), better local cuisine (sorry, NY pizza>fish and chips and tea and crumpets are nothing compared to a NY cheesecake),
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Originally posted by Ressti
New York
Statue of Liberty/Liberty Island
Brooklyn Bridge
Empire State Building
Wall Street
Rockefellar Center
Central Park
Times Square
Washington Square Park
Chinatown
I'm not even American and I know more about New York than I do London... and i've been to London
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but that's mainly manhattan, what about the other boroughs?
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Member Since: 11/23/2011
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Originally posted by 2stupid4you
but that's mainly manhattan, what about the other boroughs?
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Poll: Most Iconic City: NYC or London?
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Were we asked about the other boroughs aside from the Concrete Jungle? No.
NYC, a city that isn't even the capital of the state of New York, wins once again, over London, the capital over the whole of UK.
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Quote:
Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction
Adele and Lily being the only WW representations from London. Taking away the movies all based in NYC and saying NYC has no cultural impact.
Shall I list all the famous musicians, actors/actresses, celebrities, models, politicians, personalities, etc born and/or living in NY? Shall I list all the TV shows set in NYC? The countless movies?
Shall I obliterate?
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No, there are way more, and I could list all the famous people from London, most of them would be dead but that just shows the rich heritage and history of London. There are lots of TV shows and movies set in London too, so you'd hardly be obliterating.
http://www.imdb.com/search/name?birt...n,+England,+UK
The correct answer is London, but I may be biased.
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Quote:
Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction
Not a local rapper born in NY being more prevalent WW than the Queen of England.
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Of course if you search for "London: Queen Elizabeth II"
now please compare both with "US rapper from New York: Jay-Z"
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Originally posted by L/\DY G/\G/\
Dreams arent made in London, theyre made in NY
Its worldwide impact (U.N. headquarters), better local cuisine (sorry, NY pizza>fish and chips and tea and crumpets are nothing compared to a NY cheesecake),
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Yes because only fish & chips and tea & crumpets are served in London, that is the only thing eaten in Britain.
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Originally posted by chjw
Yes because only fish & chips and tea & crumpets are served in London, that is the only thing eaten in Britain.
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I didnt imply that; if you ask people what some of Britain's culturally famous cuisine is that is the answer you are going to get... Its not my fault its that way.
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