Using this list: List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia
27 - OKC
Been to New York City and Chicago, but to Los Angeles.
Houston!
Looks like someone’s never been to the Southwest.
Brisbane for me too.
I’d be interested in going there, I’m not avoiding the place.
As a bit of an aside, I’ve recently read Tim Moore’s book ‘You are awful (but I like you)’ where he travels around many of the worst , poorest and least privileged places in the UK, staying only at the worst rated hotels on Trip Advisor and eating only the least appetising local delicacies. A form of self-torture, some would (rightly) say, but funny nonetheless. I would mention that he didn’t make it to Birkenhead in the book, so it can’t be too bad a place, in comparison to others at least.
As another random aside, I’ve also been to the smallest city in the UK - St. David’s in Wales, with a staggering population of 1600. It was just like being in New York…
Going on this list, mine goes to #17- Ballarat.
Mesa, Arizona, #38 in Wikipedia’s list.
Based on cities alone - #10 San Jose
Based on metro area - #16 Seattle
I’m having a hard time fathoming the meaning of this. If you’re saying Houston is like every other place in America then why are you singling out Houston? Aren’t you just saying that all American cities and towns (except Honolulu) are the same?
I’ve lived in Ottawa most of my life.
I’ve been to Toronto, Montreal & Quebec City.
I’ve never been to the western provinces so I guess it would be Vancouver.
East Coast - Albany,NY
West Coast - Fresno,CA (been down I-5 numerous times, but never cut over to Fresno)
Seemingly numerous places more ghastly than Birkenhead – well… This has made me keen to get hold of this book by Tim Moore, of which I’d never heard before !
Ah, yes, the British oddity by which a community’s having a cathedral (of the appropriate branch of Christianity), entitles it to be classed as a city. This rule has become somewhat blurred over the past century-plus; but St. David’s, with its cathedral, officially ranks at the present day, as a city. The same applies to its cathedral-endowed counterpart in North Wales, St. Asaph – with approximately twice the population of St. David’s.
Another comical British cathedral-city feature involves the communities of Bath, and Wells, in the county of Somerset. Both have been classed as cities, since very far back: haven’t got population figures to hand – but while the former is of a size to fit the general secular definition of a small city (and has Bath Abbey, which at one time was a diocesan cathedral); the latter, which has a true, indubitable catheral, is a tiny country town some fifteen miles from Bath. The diocese is presided over by the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Hence the rhyme:
The people of Wells
Have a cathedral all to theirsel’s;
But of their bishop they have to give half
To Bahf.
I don’t think I’ve visited there, either. Dallas, Austin, San Antonio…but not Houston. A friend was there for a convention. She went outside three times. The first, to get a breath of fresh air and she immediately broke out in a sweat. The second time to test if it would happen again, the third to demonstrate it to a friend.
Other than that, I imagine Seattle would be somewhere on the list, and we’ll be there next year or the one following for an Alaska trip.
Been through the Denver airport, driven north of Denver, south of it, never actually in it.
I’ve changed planes at LAX, so if that counts than the largest city I have not visited is San Antonio (7th largest). If not, I’ve never visited LA (2nd largest).
New Zealand: #13 Invercargill, pop. 49,000.
Ditto.
Phoenix for me too. I have never even been very close to it. I am really weak on the the Southwest in general. I have been to Las Vegas and I go to the Colorado Springs, Colorado area several times a year but I have never been to West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona or Utah at all.
Los Angeles, CA
Houston. I’ve never been anywhere in Texas, in fact. If you count cities where I’ve changed airplanes, then you have to get down to Indianapolis to find a non-Texas city I’ve never been in.
I question the practicality of Wikipedia’s list, though. I used to live in Phoenix, and almost no one can tell you where the actual city boundaries are. When doing general population counts, they always count the entire metropolitan area together, mainly because there are no borders between the towns in it, but a very sharp dropoff into barren desert once you hit the edge. Residents will tell you that “Phoenix” is pretty much the same as “El Valle del Sol” or “Phoenix Metro”, and has flowed outwards to about thirty miles across at the widest now. In common parlance, it also includes Mesa (#35), Chandler (#79), Glendale (#87), Gilbert (#92), Scottsdale (#95), Tempe (#143), and Peoria (#149). According to a quick Google, the population is up to 4.3 million – roughly the same as Greater Boston.