January 13, 2006

The Hell That is Northern California, Part 2

In this scientific analysis, it is determined that San Francisco is a Beta World City, along with Sydney, Toronto, and Zurich, and with nine points just one point shy of Alpha World City status.

And it's easy on the eyes:



Now, let's see, Seattle...Seattle...Seattle...ah, here it is. Two points, right there with Ho Chi Minh City, Riyadh, and Bucharest. And it's easy on the eyes too, in its own way:


seattle Rain.jpg


















Word is that Seattle may soon break its record for consecutive days of rain.

I guess we can all be very proud.

2 Comments:

Blogger Viceroy De Los Osos said...

You betchya. Rains in Seattle constantly, rain, rain rain. Britany Spears came to vist once and declared it "Horrid". We don't even have sex here. And there are bears.

January 14, 2006 at 9:04 AM  
Blogger JAB said...

To quote the criteria:

"Note that this roster is weighted toward financial criteria and generally denotes cities in which there are offices of certain multinational companies providing financial and consulting services rather than other cultural, political and economic centres."

Meaning: We have more rich people.

January 16, 2006 at 5:55 PM  

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