What makes a city a world city? What world cities have you been to? Have you ever been to a world city?
A world city... I would imagine them to be where well to do international companies headquarter out of... Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Chicago, Brussels. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Philadelphia was bigger than Amsterdam, but Amsterdam was a world city and Philadelphia was an American city. Amsterdam however, is by far the smallest/littlest world city that I've ever been to, to date, but it is a world city true and true, with the same 'Made in China' tourist crap sporting a different label and everything. I'm from London, I'm home in a tourist trap tbh, so I know one when I see one. When I went to New York City for the afternoon (from the Jersey Shore)... I was 14, first time out of England on that trip to America... I was surprised when I got to New York City and everything was 'normal' to me, despite it being in America and some 3, 000+ miles away on a different continent in a different country, when I was in New York City that day, it felt like I was back in London, was a surreal feeling, and seeing things from home like a HSBC Bank, an English Pub, a picture of the London Underground sign on Subway there in New York City, a double decker bus, a random man with a Welsh flag on his hoodie, just things I noticed in Manhattan. I got home from America later that month, I turned 15 in America so I was 15, back at home, and I wondered 'what was London and what was England?' since New York City was another London to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city I had never heard the term World City before and had to look it up. The closest thing I could find were Global Cities and there are a lot of different categories for those. I have been to all of the Global Giants and probably most of the cities in the other list.
TBH, having lived in the Washington DC metro area, every city just about I have visited to me is "normal" except for Philadelphia. That particular city is so dingy and grimy looking and the people so unfriendly and arrogant to be living in a slum city, I tend to put it in a special category. So far Memphis is the only other place I have been that nears the Philly experience in a bad way. Anyway, because big cities are so "normal" to me, I don't get the awe first time visitors do of them. I became rather jaded about it all. I recall sitting on the Mall one day thinking how stupid it was for people to spend a fortune and come all the way around the world just to visit DC, cherry trees like they could see everywhere else on the planet, and museums mostly full of junk.
