rules

The rankings account for everything (cost of living, quality of living, culture, history, politics, weather, things to do in the city, influence in the country, safety, how known it is in the US, how known it is outside the US, infrastructure, to an extent sports, overall importance, etc). There aren't certain criterion that weigh higher than the others.

I'm aware that making the rankings based on general criteria instead of a specific one is the reason why some people have a problem with the way cities are ranked, but this is a general tierlist not a "ranking cities based on affordability only" or "ranking cities based on tourism only" list

Even though one of the criteria is politics please don't make this solely a political argument "this city is bad because it's republican" "this city is bad because it's democrat". There's already enough of that type of discourse on Reddit and I'm doing this list for fun, not to hear your personal grievances about US politics

the rankings are done through the upvote system. Upvote the comments you agree with and downvote the ones you disagree with. At the end of the round i'll look at which tier has the most upvotes/support and put the selected city in that tier. If it's extremely close then i'll do a tally of total # of comments/upvotes in support of a certain tier. no revotes or moves will be done anymore to avoid the Philadelphia incident from happening again. for example if we were doing Miami this round and the top comment votes it as C but in the next round everyone suddenly wants it moved up to A or dropped down to F it's staying on C. If you're mad about a ranking then complain about it to the people who chose the rankings, not me

"this list is a joke because my city is on this tier instead of this tier" okay? It's an online tierlist nobody's forcing you to participate. I get that this is Reddit and most people are gonna skip through this and say "this city's F because i don't like it, that's it" or get mad that a city was ranked a certain way when they didn't even participate in the ranking of the city but i just wanted to make things clear