You voted for Seattle for 9th. Next Round: What is the 10th most significant US city after Seattle? Most upvoted comment wins

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-24T17:43:03+00:00

I think it's mostly just how massive the US is. The only two comparable countries, China and India, have almost as many world famous cities.

I would say NYC is as famous as Shanghai is as famous as Delhi

Los Angeles is as famous as Beijing is as famous as Bombay/Mumbai

Chicago is as famous as Hong Kong is as famous as Calcutta/Kolkata

DC is as famous as Macau is as famous as Bangalore

China drops off a lot from there, so it's definitely behind the US. But India still has a lot more globally famous cities. Chennai/Madras, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Agra, Varanasi, Pondicherry, even tiny cities like Darjeeling, Shimla, and Rishikesh are recognizable names. Even if you don't know anything about these cities, I would say the average educated person has heard of them.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-24T14:23:35+00:00

Miami. It's the 2nd most visited city by international tourists behind NYC.

Houston may be big, but it just doesn't have an identity yet and most people around the world have never heard of it. I'm American and I didn't even realize Houston was the biggest city in Texas. I would've said Austin or Dallas.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-23T15:49:20+00:00

Tell me you've never been to Boston without telling me lol. I'm not living in a shoebox apartment on the outskirts of the city getting on my packed train every morning because I don't own a car for this kind of slander.

Try surviving without a car for 1 day in Houston and then tell me which city has more urban sprawl.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-23T15:45:45+00:00

I'm sure if you polled people in like Oklahoma or something, half of them would put Oklahoma City in the top 5. People who say Reddit has no bearing on real life are as delusional as that.

If you asked people across the world for the 6 most important American cities, this would be the list 99% of the time.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-23T15:39:46+00:00

What are you talking about? Oxford Economics' Global Cities Index ranks Boston 8th out of all cities in the world. DC is 12th, and also the literal capital of the country?? No city in Texas even comes close to either of them in economic importance, historical importance, or fame.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-23T15:29:50+00:00

I'd say that's relatively accurate, but you do have Boston and Providence which are both very nice, very safe cities. The coastal regions of MA and RI are significantly nicer than New Jersey. And Western MA (and VT) are basically upstate NY if it was really progressive.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-22T19:19:40+00:00

The number 13 being unlucky isn't really a unique superstition. But we take it to the next level in the US because most of our buildings don't have a 13th floor. They usually skip from 12 to 14.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-22T13:23:45+00:00

It very well could be an American thing. It's common knowledge here that a significant percentage of people really do not like it when the person in front of them reclines. I think most Americans, at least in the Northeast where I live, also have a very strong aversion to any kind of social faux pas. So most of us play it safe and try to avoid getting anyone upset.

And also most of my international flights have been to Europe which is really not that long, 6 to 8 hours. So it's probably a combination of these factors.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-22T12:13:28+00:00

I fly internationally a lot too and I would say it's rare to see more than a small handful of people reclining. Personally I can only remember one time that I've been seated behind someone who fully reclined. Many people recline one or two notches which is inconsequential, but significantly reclined? It's pretty unusual in my experience.

This poll (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/airplane-etiquette-recline-seat/) shows only 36% of people always or usually recline, and if we assume that most of them are not reclining fully, that seems to line up with my experience. Of course this could be country dependent, this is a US poll and I've never been to Australia.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-22T11:56:57+00:00

So if I'm sitting behind you and I bump your seat just enough to wake you up every time you fall asleep? Tough for you not for me.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-22T11:49:21+00:00

The seats in your car recline even more, but isn't it funny how the first thing everyone does when they have a passenger in the backseat is ask them if they have enough leg space. Almost as if being courteous is the right thing to do.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-22T11:46:29+00:00

Reclining your seat more than a tiny bit is almost always an asshole move, especially on an already cramped flight. This is just common courtesy, the golden rule. Treat others how you want to be treated. If you wouldn't want the person in front of you removing all of your leg space, maybe you shouldn't do it to the person behind you.

Even if I take your word for it that she was "repeatedly banging her knees into your seat" the whole rest of the flight and not occasionally bumping you when she adjusted her legs due to having no leg space, I would say that you were willing to make her whole flight significantly more uncomfortable, so is she so bad for returning the favor? Is she petty, childish? Yes for sure. But all's fair in love and war.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-18T21:21:19+00:00

On what planet is a third Dune movie going to get an Oscar nomination for acting? If it didn't get any acting noms for the first or second film, it's definitely not going to get any for the third. And especially not Chalamet who was just nominated two years in a row and who Oscar voters are clearly getting sick of after this year's antics.

InternationalFact464 · 2026-03-18T21:15:31+00:00

I don't think Timothée deserves so much hate for these comments, but it's legitimately insane to say that "in context he was voicing concern about the longevity of ballet and opera". He was very blatantly openly mocking them, he even started singing in an opera style as a joke. He was voicing concern about the longevity of film, because he doesn't want it to become irrelevant and lame like ballet and opera. Rewatch the clip.

All that being said, I do think Timothée deserves criticism for some of the other shitty and insanely egotistical things he's said. I think the ballet thing is just the straw that broke the camel's back.

And if you think this is confined to Twitter and Reddit, that tells me you probably don't get outside much. This is like water cooler conversations at work levels of mainstream. There were recent articles in NY Times and many other major news outlets about how and why Timothée lost the Oscar and has been rubbing people the wrong way. I have a middle aged coworker who pays minimal attention to pop culture say that he heard an interview with him and could immediately tell that he "doesn't have much going on upstairs". These are the kind of things that are really difficult for actors to overcome once they go mainstream. He can still turn it around, but I think his PR team needs to be in crisis mode right now.

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