Ranking of Global Cities...Guess who is #1?

The important thing to take away from this report is that Chicago is #1 among the most totally unimportant cities of the world, even beating out Kolkata.

Chicago is ranked #8 even though it's a lot smaller than NYC, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo. Also, it's #3 in human capital and beats NYC when it comes to best places to get a degree. This is because on a per capita basis, Chicago people are more well-educated than NYC.

They don't really explain their methodologies for all those "dimensions."

ranking Chicago at only #12 for business is downright laughable. Chicago is the world's center of derivatives trading, home to numerous fortune 500 companies, and hosts more business conventions than any city in the U.S.

rulfus, you make waking up at 6am a delight.

Of course in Chicago this would be 5am, because Chicago always beats nyc to the game.

Chicago is "a lot" smaller than Paris? Rufus, Rufus, at least get your facts right. Paris has a population of 2.17 million, Chcago 2.8 million. Perhaps you mean metropolitan area population? In this case, you'd be correct about Paris....but not Hong Kong. The Chicago metropolitan area has 9.8 million people whereas the entire territory of Hong Kong has less than 7 million inhabitants.

Next time, check your facts.

"The Big Apple beat out other global powerhouses largely on the back of its financial markets"

Must have been a 2007 survey.

"hosts more business conventions than any city in the U.S."

you realize most "business conventions" are men's-warehouse wearing middle managment, right? the real hitters are off doing deals ...

with this financial crisis, there is no way NYC is now ahead of chicago. interesting to see the next ranking.

kspeak, you're wrong again. Chicago hosts numerous conventions for people in finance, medicine, biotech, etc.

By "Chicago", do you mean Vegas?

How's your mom?

London - cultural capital!. Yeah :) But I knew that already.

Go NYC!

Rufus: "Chicago is the world's center of derivatives trading..." Uh, yeah. Good luck with that. Really thriving economic engine right now, those derivatives.

kylewest, banking and private equity are getting hit the hardest. you're an idiot if you think NYC is actually better off than Chicago.

"Chicago hosts numerous conventions for people in finance, medicine, biotech, etc."

Okay, pretty sure this is wrong seeing that my job would be sending to these medicine/biotech conferences you speak of. Although I have a few clients in Chicago, pretty sure I've never been to a medicine/biotech/healthcare conference in Chicago. Most are in NY, SF, Boston, or London. I can give you examples if you want ...

kspeak, the annual radiology conference, which is the world's largest convention of any kind, takes place in Chicago and brings about 70,000 people from all across the world.

care to give examples of the conventions you are talking about? they're peanuts compared to the radiology convention.

You are such a dope, rufus. read what i wrote. you claimed derivatives were a big plus in chicago. i said that is an odd thing to boast about these days. your response is a non-sequitur. WHERE DO YOU LIVE? If in NY, why haven't you followed your own advice and moved? And if in Chicago (a perfectly fine city) why on earth do you troll these boards? And why do you care if NY or another city is "better." What does that even mean? Who moves to a city because of its ranking somewhere? What is your point in thread after thread?

kylewest, note that 'rufus' spelled backwards is 'sufur'. If you're hooked on phonics, that explains it all.

Cracker Boy's clearly hooked on other things, though, and not the psychotropics that were prescribed to him.

The radiology conference is relocating to Steve Wynn's new Encore Resort and Convention Center in Las Vegas, expected to open next year.

kspeak still has not given examples of these conferences he's talking about.

And you haven't yet answered our questions.

1) Name some other restaurants in the Hog Butcher for the World except for the 3 you just mentioned
2) What do you do for a living / from what job were you recentely fired
3) Prove you live in NYC - name some grocery stores on UWS (where you supposedly live) and tell us which way 7th avenue runs and whether this past weekend it rained on Saturday or Sunday
4) Is your skanky toothless mother a tinaqueen or a crackwhore?
5) What's up with your "big" obsession? Can't you take up cigar-smoking or billiards or just drive a standard car to deal with it?

Hey Rufus

Any comments for this interesting discussion:

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/6060-125-shot-dead-in-chicago-over-summer-total-is-about-double-the-us-troop-death-toll-in-iraq

> Chicago is ranked #8 even though it's a lot smaller than

I love the logic.

Rufus tries to "prove" Chicago is best by showing rankings that show Chicago sucks, responding with "yes, but since Chicago sucks, thats actually a good ranking".

> hosts more business conventions than any city in the U.S.

Oh yeah, and then rufus has to resort to outright lying. I know because he tried the same exact lie already.
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/5474-nyc-will-be-the-next-venice
"Chicago still hosts the most number of conventions in the country."
(5 weeks ago).

Moron.

Top convention cities
Tradeshow Week's list of biggest convention cities last year, ranked by the number of top-200 shows each city attracted.
August 6, 2008

* Las Vegas...44
* Orlando...24
* Chicago...20
* New York...16
* Atlanta...12
* Anaheim...9
* New Orleans...6
* San Francisco...6
* Louisville, Ky...5
* Dallas...5
* San Diego...5
* Washington, D.C...5

Rufie - you were specifically referring to "business" conferences (see your posting above) so by this I took it to mean medical industry conferences rather than physician conferences. Physician conferences generally rotate cities each year although there are exceptions ..

Anyway, some examples:

Annual Biotech CEO conference = Laguna Beach, CA
Goldman Sachs Healthcare Conference = London
JPMorgan healthcare conference = San Francisco
UBS Healthcare conference = New York City

I can go on if you want ...

Also, kspeak = she. Typical, narrow-minded midwesterner: jumping to conclusions ...

i'm sure that in next year's ranking, NYC will be nowhere near #1, due to the financial meltdown and its devastating effect on the city's wealth and human capital.

And you haven't yet answered our questions.

1) Name some other restaurants in the Hog Butcher for the World except for the 3 you just mentioned
2) What do you do for a living / from what job were you recentely fired
3) Prove you live in NYC - name some grocery stores on UWS (where you supposedly live) and tell us which way 7th avenue runs and whether this past weekend it rained on Saturday or Sunday
4) Is your skanky toothless mother a tinaqueen or a crackwhore?
5) What's up with your "big" obsession? Can't you take up cigar-smoking or billiards or just drive a standard car to deal with it?

Rufus is beat. Can't answer any questions. RUFUS is a fraud and a shill.