Comments on: Wired’s Top Ten Tech Cities, Toronto and Toronto Tech Week http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/01/05/wireds-top-ten-tech-cities-toronto-and-toronto-tech-week/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:07:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/01/05/wireds-top-ten-tech-cities-toronto-and-toronto-tech-week/#comment-8645 Anonymous Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:05:56 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/01/05/wireds-top-ten-tech-cities-toronto-and-toronto-tech-week/#comment-8645 The <cite>Wired</cite> article doesn't have a comments section, so feel free to make your points of order here. If you're going to quibble, "San Francisco Bay Area" is also not a city. As satellite cities cluster around primary cities and form megalopolises, what we refer to as a "city" becomes a little more vague -- hence the references to the Research Triangle near Raleigh and the Bay Area surrounding San Francisco Bay. What happens in the end is that locals use the "proper" terminology for those places, while outsiders refer to an area by the names of the airport(s) that serve it. The Wired article doesn’t have a comments section, so feel free to make your points of order here.

If you’re going to quibble, “San Francisco Bay Area” is also not a city.

As satellite cities cluster around primary cities and form megalopolises, what we refer to as a “city” becomes a little more vague — hence the references to the Research Triangle near Raleigh and the Bay Area surrounding San Francisco Bay. What happens in the end is that locals use the “proper” terminology for those places, while outsiders refer to an area by the names of the airport(s) that serve it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/01/05/wireds-top-ten-tech-cities-toronto-and-toronto-tech-week/#comment-8644 Anonymous Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:24:49 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/01/05/wireds-top-ten-tech-cities-toronto-and-toronto-tech-week/#comment-8644 Raleigh-Durham is not a city. It's an airport, and not an exciting one at that. It has a bunch of big-box tech nology companies around it, and if you get far enough away in two nearly opposite directions, you find Durham, which is a nice enough place to live, and Raleigh, which might be, but I've never lived there. From the perspective of a place like Boston, they're not really cities anyway, more like concentrated suburbia. <br/><br/> (yes, I know, I should be going and flaming wired...) Raleigh-Durham is not a city. It’s an airport, and not an exciting one at that. It has a bunch of big-box tech nology companies around it, and if you get far enough away in two nearly opposite directions, you find Durham, which is a nice enough place to live, and Raleigh, which might be, but I’ve never lived there. From the perspective of a place like Boston, they’re not really cities anyway, more like concentrated suburbia.

(yes, I know, I should be going and flaming wired…)

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