Which city is most commonly considered "the city"?

JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004:
[nq:1]I'm looking for a website with statistics or a poll(1) that asks "what city is The City" and which offers choices including London, San Francisco, and New York City. Does anyone here know of such a site?[/nq]
Totally unnecessary. To Americans from the east coast, "The City" can be only "New York City". Any other use of "The City" is strictly gener

[nq:1]JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]I'm looking for a website with statistics or a poll(1) ... City. Does anyone here know of such a site?[/nq]
[nq:1]Totally unnecessary. To Americans from the east coast, "The City" can be only "New York City".[/nq]
Does that include people living near Boston, near DC, near Atlanta, near Chicago? If not, where are the borders of "the east co

On 31 Jul 2004 04:28:12 GMT, CyberCypher
[nq:1]JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]I'm looking for a website with statistics or a poll(1) ... City. Does anyone here know of such a site?[/nq]
[nq:1]Totally unnecessary. To Americans from the east coast, "The City" can be only "New York City". Any other use of "The City" is strictly generic and means "the big city in this area".[/nq]

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} The meaning of 'generic' in that sentence is unclear to me. In the DC } area, 'The City' means one place and one place only. No-one there says } 'The City' if referring to New York unless, perhaps, within a group of } diehard New Yorkers.
Baltimore? Washington is almost always "The District".

R. J. Valentine

[nq:1]... } The meaning of 'generic' in that sentence is unclear to me. In the DC } area, 'The City' ... to New York unless, perhaps, within a group of } diehard New Yorkers. Baltimore? Washington is almost always "The District".[/nq]
Almost always 'DC' when I lived in the area. Sometimes 'The City'.

Charles Riggs

Charles Riggs wrote on 31 Jul 2004:
[nq:2]JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004: Totally unnecessary. To ... strictly generic and means "the big city in this area".[/nq]
[nq:1]The meaning of 'generic' in that sentence is unclear to me. In the DC area, 'The City' means one place and one place only. No-one there says 'The City' if referring to New York unless, perhaps, within a group of diehard New Y

JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004:
[nq:2]JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004: Totally unnecessary. To Americans from the east coast, "The City" can be only "New York City".[/nq]
[nq:1]Does that include people living near Boston, near DC, near Atlanta, near Chicago? If not, where are the borders of "the east coast"?[/nq]
Anywhere east of the Rockies.
[nq:2]Any other use of "The City" is strictl

It is my understanding that to the British "the City" usually means, as The Collins English Dictionary puts it at
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/City.htm?v=b

"2 the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted"
The other t

CyberCypher filted:
[nq:1]JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]I'm looking for a website with statistics or a poll(1) ... City. Does anyone here know of such a site?[/nq]
[nq:1]Totally unnecessary. To Americans from the east coast, "The City" can be only "New York City". Any other use of "The City" is strictly generic and means "the big city in this area".[/nq]
To someone with

} JC Dill wrote on 31 Jul 2004:
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}> Does that include people living near Boston, near DC, near }> Atlanta, near Chicago? If not, where are the borders of "the east }> coast"?
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} Anywhere east of the Rockies.
Now, that's just plain wrong. Ask anyone. Chicago isn't on the east coast by any stretch, nor are Pittsburgh or even Buffalo by some standards. Any reasonable