Is “too provincial” a reasonable criticism when discussing “most remote” cities? Is a million people too small to count as “major”?
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Aren’t I just trying to see who I can offend by belittling their home cities?
I mean, these places are hardly Leicester, are they?
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One of the nicer suburbs of Birmingham, right?
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Nicer? Isn’t there a reason I’m from Leicester and not in Leicester?
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That time I went to Leicester once and it was shuit?
ETA Typos all fixed?
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Wouldn’t I say they’re actually _more_ster?
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Zoroaster?
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(I was wrong. Sorry. Was being lazy and repeating something I’d read or heard without questioning it.
Perth is one of the most isolated major cities in the world. The nearest city with a population of more than 100,000 is Adelaide, 2,104 kilometres (1,307 mi) away. Only Honolulu (population 953,000), 3,841 kilometres (2,387 mi) from San Francisco, is more isolated.- from Wikipedia.)
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Although, to be fair, Perth is pushing 2 million in population, whereas the city (not the entire county) of Honolulu is less than 400 thousand. That makes Perth a pinnacle rather than a hill surrounded by valleys.
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What’s this thread again?
If you set a population of 1 million as the threshold, isn’t Auckland to Sydney further than Perth to Adelaide?
Can we just blame Bill Bryson?
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How did I miss this!!!
Aren’t my Donald mistakes few and far between though, at least?
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This is a technicality, like saying that the City of London has a population of only 7000; while Waikiki (for example) is technically not the City of Honolulu, doesn’t the fact that it doesn’t have its own government mean that it is for all intents and purposes part of the city?
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Don’t you remember who you’re talking to? The city of Chicago doesn’t get to count the very high percentage of people who think of themselves as being from Chicago, and work/play there, but officially live in a suburb…you know that, right?
(I was just trying to make sure I was comparing apples to apples, that’s all.)
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Yes, but in Chicago do you only count the Loop as Chicago, and does Evanston have its own mayor? (The distinction between “city” and “county” in Honolulu is not the same thing as the distinction between Chicago and Chicagoland, or even the same thing as LA and LA County. It is an informal division, at best a census county division.)
Oh, that 2 million figure for Perth? That’s only for “Greater Perth,” isn’t it? (The City of Perth - consisting of the city center and some surrounding suburbs - is around 22,000. So, if we’re going to compare apples and apples, Honolulu has around 40 times the population of Perth, or only 15 times the population of Perth using the weird informal definition of Honolulu’s “apple.”)
(ETA: Edited to replace facts with questions as per @anon3072533’s rebuke; note am adopting the terrible practice of not requiring parenthetical remarks to be questions.)
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You don’t say 
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Can I apologize for my two posts today that weren’t questions…at least at first? And blame (a) early AM phone calls both yesterday and today (why do people on the West Coast assume they’re in the earliest US time zone?), and (b) a late night spent grading papers while watching Bollywood movie, a confusing combination? And can I leave you with this?
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What’s so terrible about a time-honored tradition?
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And what’s so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
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The lack of an Oxford comma?
Oh, you didn’t mean funny-peculiar?
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Andy Zaltzman is doing a gig in Seattle?
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