New York Rules

[Markbnj]

I just realized NYC is more than twice as big as the next largest city in the U.S., LA.

New York, New York 8,175,133
Los Angeles, California 3,792,621
Chicago, Illinois 2,695,598
Houston, Texas 2,100,263
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1,526,006

If we ever break up into city-states they're going to own the rest of us hard.

 

[mrkun]

That's the city of Los Angeles proper. The LA metro area is a geographically contiguous city of something like 14 million people.

 

[Markbnj]

That's the city of Los Angeles proper. The LA metro area is a geographically contiguous city of something like 14 million people.

That's probably true of New York, too. And anyway, L.A. is all spread out. They'll have a hard time coordinating to repel NY's attack.

 

[mrkun]

That's probably true of New York, too. And anyway, L.A. is all spread out. They'll have a hard time coordinating to repel NY's attack.

NYC's density makes it more vulnerable. One nuke and the place is gone.

 

[ultimatebob]

NYC is screwed... The gangs in LA have a lot more guns 🙂

 

[uclaLabrat]

That's probably true of New York, too. And anyway, L.A. is all spread out. They'll have a hard time coordinating to repel NY's attack.

LA is certainly no paragon of virtue, efficiency, or industriousness, but NYC could fuck up a wet dream...seriously.

 

[LegendKiller]

NYC is screwed... The gangs in LA have a lot more guns 🙂

NY has all of the gold in the Federal Reserve. If it comes down to that type of chaos that have more than enough wealth to buy a very large army.

Counter to that is that a lot of NY is stuck on islands (staten, Long and manhattan). Pretty vulnerable there.

 

[spacejamz]

NYC is screwed... The gangs in LA have a lot more guns 🙂

Wonder if Chicago would give them a run for their money???

 

[MtnMan]

The stinker the shit, the more flies it attracts.

 

[zerocool84]

You also forget that LA has a huge population that isn't documented so we got that going for us. Tons of cannon fodder.

 

[Crono]

It's the boroughs that does it. Like having 4 cities (and Staten Island 😀) rolled up in one.

 

[Doppel]

NYC's density makes it more vulnerable. One nuke and the place is gone.

Any decent size terrorist attack is likely to happen there and, since manhattan at least is a island, it it is the last place you would want to be. Imagine a large scale chemical release and all those people trying to escape by bridge or water, no thanks. Cities are, more than anywhere, at the mercy of supply line issues. They are very crowded and have nothing stored on hand.

 

[Markbnj]

Any decent size terrorist attack is likely to happen there and, since manhattan at least is a island, it it is the last place you would want to be. Imagine a large scale chemical release and all those people trying to escape by bridge or water, no thanks. Cities are, more than anywhere, at the mercy of supply line issues. They are very crowded and have nothing stored on hand.

They could lose a million people in one attack, and they'd still have 3.5 million more than LA. Also, LA is probably more vulnerable to sabotage. A few well-placed attacks and you can't get in or out, haven't got any water, and haven't got any power. Around NYC all that stuff was buried 100 years ago.

 

[SSSnail]

LOL, you can't even by bigger drinks as adults.

Ruled is more fitting.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

How wondrous it would be if NYC left the state and took Albany with it.

 

[Crono]

LOL, you can't even by bigger drinks as adults.

Ruled is more fitting.

 

[ultimatebob]

If society broke down, NYC would be screwed.... You got 8 million helpless yuppies, most of which have never fed themselves.

 

[nageov3t]

LOL, you can't even by bigger drinks as adults.

Ruled is more fitting.

er... that rule never actually went into effect, and the anti-Bloomberg is going to win handily in the up-coming elections.