Is your country totally dominated by one city?

>uk
yes, the UK is basically just London and the rest exists to provide London is food, energy and labour.

>>213826388 (OP)
kind of yeah

Virtually all of Europe is like that, except sometimes you have cases like Spain or Italy that call themselves "unitary" states but actually are so weak in structure they're essentially built as a federation because otherwise they'd have balkanized long ago.

No

>>213826633
given the sheer size and the population of the usa it is pretty concentrated still

>>213826685
Not really, there are cities you've never heard of here that have defense contractors that compete with the biggest French companies.

>>213826388 (OP)
> flag
Yes

Do anglo foids also only want to live in London too? In SK yes they only want to live in Seoul, regardless of if they're grown up in Seoul or not.

>>213826707
yeah and airbus is technically headquartered in a tiny french town with less than 30k people
the economic engine of the usa is quite concentrated with less important cities having back office outsourcing and manufacturing
also the education system is more concentrated than in anywhere else where the most important 100 people basically went to the exact same few schools

>>213826717
>Do anglo foids also only want to live in London too?
Absolutely, every other city in the UK is a cesspit by comparison.

>>213826388 (OP)
No but there are a few cities that dominate the USA.

I live in Arizonia and nobody cares about us and my state always gets clowned on.

>>213826493
not really, the only comparable case of centralisation in europe is paris. and as well as econonmic centralisation london also has complete cultural and funding capture
this is also the case inside the UK itself. when londoners talk about britain outside their country, they think of north england. when northerners think of the south, they think of london. basically nowhere else even exists. if you want to get ahead in career in either the arts or business, you must go to london at some point

>>213826745
>the economic engine of the usa is quite concentrated with less important cities having back office outsourcing and manufacturing
The largest BMW factory and the largest Michelin factory to be located outside of Europe are located in South Carolina.

>>213826763
>the only comparable case of centralisation in europe is paris
Czechia-Prague, Sweden-Stockholm, Netherlands-Amsterdam, Poland-Warsaw

>>213826751
Wrong, I'd move to Exeter, Winchester, or Norwich in a heartbeat over Londonistan.

t. bong

>>213826765
yeah that is exactly what i said? back office and manufacturing where labour is cheaper

>>213826794
>back office and manufacturing where labour is cheaper
Manufacturing is the cornerstone of an economy, and even if you think finance is the only measure of "economy" than Delaware, Hartford, and Chicago are stronger centers of finance than 95% of Europe.

>>213826388 (OP)
Same thing for Paris

>>213826822
Your entire country has been built around this concept for over 200 years.

>>213826782
poland and netherlands are definitely not comparable lol

>>213826808
i dont get why you get so personal and angry. the usa is not rich because of outsourced german car factories. we have bmw, mercedes, audi, opel, suzuki plants and they are building a giant byd plant now with similar size of the giga berlin because of cheap manufacturing costs

>Delaware
its just a local tax heaven

>Hartford
because it is close to new york

>Chicago
yeah this is the largest midwest city, it is a regional center

>>213826865
>yeah this is the largest midwest city, it is a regional center
It's the third largest city in the US, how much relative economic power does the third largest city in Hungary have compared to Chicago?

>>213826782
>Stockholm
I thought gothenburg is comparable

>>213826927
In the same way Birmingham is comparable to London

>>213826388 (OP)
I hate Warsaw
I hate Warsaw
I hate Warsaw
germs bomb it again please

The Netherlands is very decentralized. Even the big cities are very different when it comes to influence.

Amsterdam has a big financial sector and tourism.
Rotterdam has the biggest harbor of Europe and oil refineries and such.
The Hague has the government and international institutions.
Utrecht has the most universities, festivals, the highest wages, lots of banks and such.
Eindhoven has ASML and Philips and such nearby.

>>213826944
If Amsterdam would disappear tomorrow nobody would even notice.

>>213826963
The IT sector is mostly in Amsterdam.

>>213826751
London is one of the worst cities in the country to live in and that's not because of the cost.

>>213826717
a lot of younger people want to move there but people generally have the sense to see that living is way overpriced there. lots of oppurtunities for white collar work however

>>213826895
he didnt reply to (You) because you were being a retard

>>213826895
any kind of comparison between the largest economy and a second world country is kind of pointless and i never denied that hungary is very centralized

third largest city is szeged. it is a very pleasant city imo but the largest employer is the university there which tells you a lot about the economic situation. there is some medical tourism from abroad, also sports. byd is currently building a 4 billion euro factory there that would be one of the largest in europe, it could either end up relatively well like the audi plant in győr or absolutely horrible with foreign workers, pollution and the typical chinese stuff
reportedly there are already some delays in terms of expected production

>>213827665
im here just went to the bakery

>>213827759
The BMW plant in Debrecen made the rents and apartment prices skyrocket and made the city into the worst income / rent ratio in the entire country. Almost capital city prices

I'm even less hopeful about the Chinese investments

>>213826388 (OP)
>>uk

MY country is Scotland and it is dominated by the central belt

>>213828799
How rare is for people from Britain to move to Scotland (or Wales?)

>>213826388 (OP)
No, it's dominated by one region

>>213828844
Edinburgh and the Highlands are filled with English people

>>213826782
Not true, only the government is centralised in Stockholm, the rest is spread out

Switch London with Colombo and that describes here.

>>213826388 (OP)
it's not like that at all in Germany

>>213826388 (OP)
No, but each state is dominated by one city. Thankfully that gives us a few big cities for the size of our country.

The other great cities of the UK lost the drivers of development when they deindustrialised. Sad.

>>213826388 (OP)
You can easily leave the influences of every big town here. The only actual city we have, New York, is pretty easy to leave. If you move to Boston for example it's a different vibe and place.

>>213828799
Scotland hasn't been a country in over 200 years

>>213826782
Nigga single digit % of population lives in Warsaw. We're one of the most decentralized countries in Europe, if not on the planet

imagine the uk without london kek, a fucking post soviet tier shithole

>>213826388 (OP)
Thank God no, you can live in a 100k City Here and still have an equally good life to someone living in the big ones

>>213826388 (OP)
no oslo is more a containment zone to us, nothing is actually done or made there.

>>213829672
Skotland is a seperate country that is also part of the UK thoughever which is why there is no UK team in football

>>213830091
It's also why there is no UK football team in the olympics, in other olympic sports the 4 UK countries compete as one team, but Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland don't want to set a precedent of competing under one British team in international football competitions. As such, none of the 4 UK countries participate in olympic football.

>>213830091
Where is Scotland in the UN?
Where is the Scottish currency?
Where is the Scottish military?

Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland are not countries they are regions of a country and everyone pandering to the medieval larp of old whiteoids is cringe and gay

>>213830059
>made there.
Beer

No. Our airports are in Larnaca and Paphos, Limassol produces 50% of our GDP and our government is based in Nicosia. You can move to any city without feeling like you're in a shithole

>>213830159
Leave them Brownoid

>>213830280
Shut up, imagine if in Germany you had inbred mongs who haven’t left the same 30 square miles in the past 200 years demanding you play along with their medieval nonsense, it’s cringe and gay

>>213826388 (OP)
Weirdly enough but yes, despite less than 10% Poles living in the Warsaw metro, it totally dominates our country. Literally all government institutions, ministries etc. are there, so do all nation-wide media have their HQs there, which makes our country extremely centralized, to the point that Warsaw has become a Default City and even journalists tend to talk about events in Warsaw, names of streets etc. without specifying that it's in Warsaw because "it's taken for granted unless said otherwise".

Though it looks like generally there isn't much objection against this situation from most Poles, the pro-decentralization movement is very weak. Probably because our nation is very homogenous, we have almost no regional identities so everyone kinda associates himself with Warsaw as much as with his own home city.

>>213826944
Utrechts doesn't have the most festivals at all.
All the cool stuff is in and around Amsterdam while the big ones are always in Brabant.

>>213830727
another funny thing is that despite this extreme cultural and political centralization, it doesn't feel like Warsaw is particularly better or more developed than other big cities. Even according to last-year statistics, Kraków has a higher avg wage than Warsaw and unless you want to pursue a political/public administration/media career, other cities usually offer similar or better career options than Warsaw. Generally quality of life for normal people is very similar in all top5 Polish cities, maybe with the small exception of Gdańsk that has a bit inflated housing prices in relation to local wages because of tourism.

>>213826493
The autonomous regions are the islands plus border regions with significant minorities

>>213826782
>Netherlands-Amsterdam
I think with the Netherlands it's more like the whole Randstad area is just one big city, there's Rotterdam-Hague, Amsterdam, then a bunch of smaller towns between them and Utrech a little bit further. It's only 50km from Amsterdam to Rotterdam and the towns in-between pretty much form a continuous chain

yes, we are also dominated by londonabad and fashington

at least we are not speaking prussian

>>213826745
This also pretty much explains why eastern Europe tends to be more centralized comparing to western Europe.

In western Europe even small towns often have some advanced high-income companies that have been developing uninterruptedly for the last 150 years and the whole city's economy is organized around these facilities, so when you're born in such a town you don't really need to move to a bigger city. The company is often family-owned and in this sense there is an emotional bond between the company and the city, it's part of its identity, so even if economically it would make more sense to move the company's HQ to another place, there will be strong objection from everyone, including its owners.

In eastern Europe, where there are hardly any domestic companies and the whole economy is dominated by local branches of western firms, said companies tend to flock to the capital city/biggest cities because they don't have any emotional connection to any small town in this country and even big cities offer so cheap land/office space and workforce from their western perspective so it simply doesn't make sense to choose any other place. Not to mention, in a bigger city they will always find everyone to work in their facility, from the lowest-qualified workers to specialists, meanwhile in a small town they would only have to start organizing the whole society to adjust it to the company's needs which would take decades, and they know well that in two decades they might not even still be present in this country because they will move out to India or something.

That's why on these GDP/purchasing parity maps there is a clear difference in distribution of wealth in western Europe vs eastern Europe.

>>213826388 (OP)
>yookay

Vienna is the only known Austrian city for most foreigners, but I wouldn't say it dominates the country.

>>213826763
>>213826782
the most capital-centred country in europe is latvia

>>213826763
>>213826822
I hear they have niggas in Paris is this true?

>>213832074
>but I wouldn't say it dominates the country.
how many times bigger is Vienna than the 2nd biggest Austrian city?

>>213826493
That’s a better model. It means each region looks after its local populace. Devolution is the key to a happy nation. Regions should be as autonomous as possible while still working together for the good of the nation

>>213826751
Some other cities are nice. Bath is beautiful, Chester is great too (but apparently the new arrivals are changing that). Generally though the nicest areas aren’t the big shithole cities but the towns, especially if they aren’t too rural and still have easy access to larger cities.

>>213830159
You live in the UK instead of your own country which means your native land is most definitely a shithole. Pipe down

>>213830396
Medieval larping is what our country thrives on. It’s called heritage. Something you shitskins dont cherish or cultivate, which is why you hate history

>>213830007
uk without london would be poor but less of a shithole unironically. less would be concentrated to there and more to local towns and cities. plus if you were to destroy it and everyone in it think of everyone who lives there. it wouldn’t be much of a loss of british life.

>>213826388 (OP)
Everyone dreams about moving to London, even though London is sadly and slowly being destroyed by mass immigration. But London is still the greatest city on earth. Sadly it's too expensive there, so I'm stuck here in Avesta. Sadly born and raised.

>>213832231
about 6-7 times

>>213833790
that's pretty dominating then

>>213833828
the territory of modern austria has never had a big city apart from Vienna tbf, the big cities in Austria Hungary were all in other parts of the empire like Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, etc

>>213833880
yeah but you know, the empire collapsed 100 years ago, you could have boosted another city by now
yet my point was about that Vienna is clearly dominating Austria, whatever the reasons for that are, is another story.

>>213833906
im not the first anon, I agree that vienna dominates the republic of austria and always has, it's just hard in such a small territory to "boost" another city since every other city is still close enough to be affected by the drain to vienna

>>213833981
>it's just hard in such a small territory to "boost" another city since every other city is still close enough to be affected by the drain to vienna
what happened with all the refugees who came to Austria after 1945, were they mostly settled in Vienna or in other places?
they could be a good "material" to boost another than Vienna city, I believe there wasn't enough space for them in Vienna and they had to be resettled across smaller towns.

>>213834064
most were sent further to Germany afaik

>>213834224
weird, the 3 million Germans from Czechia were Austrian citizens just 25 years before (probably many of them still had their KuK ausweise) and I guess culturally they were more Austrian than German too

>>213834291
yes that is correct but after ww2 they had german passports so most were sent to Germany, even of those who only lived couple km from the Austrian border. My great great grandma lived in what is now south moravia, she fled before the war ended to austria and stayed there but her other family was resettled in Germany after the war

>>213834466
do you wish pic rel happened?

>>213834555
would be based but the parts of czechia in the north should go to germany or czechia since they are both culturally different from the southern parts and also border gory

>>213826388 (OP)
People only know about Sydney and Melbourne and they both suck

>>213834892
i know and care about adelaide, canberra and perth thoughever

not at all, the German capital is a shithole dragging the rest of the country down

western germany was ruled out of bonn, a 300k Rhine village

>>213835019
>western germany was ruled out of bonn, a 300k Rhine village
...and it was a paradise!

>>213835019
i didn't think about it before but after the capital was moved to Berlin, surely a lot of Ossis naturally got employed in federal administration, maybe they're even overrepresented there because I believe many Wessis just refuse to take up federal administration positions if it means that they'd have to move to Berlin as they have better job opportunities in their heimat. Which surely changed the way Germany is governed as Ossis have their specific mentality and worldview

>>213831144
>Monster

Not really answering the question, but Sweden is kinda samey throughout. If you didn't know beforehand, it might be hard to tell if you're in an affluent area or some random mill town. Feel like that's a difference from places like Russia. Much higher minimum standard.

>>213835306
>it might be hard to tell if you're in an affluent area or some random mill town
that's just regular western experience and is best reflected in this meme
>white rapper from a western ghetto
>the ghetto [a perfect Dutch street.jpg]

>>213835378
The big city suburbs often have (polished) commie blocks at least. Gotta make the most of that I guess.

>>213835429
>The big city suburbs often have (polished) commie blocks at least.
but everyone knows they are like 0% Swedish (or any other ethnic westerner) at this point, only immigrants live there

>>213835560
An actual ghetto would be more legit for immigrants as well though. Hell on Earth Rosengård looks like paradise compared to proper balalaika commie blocks.

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>>213835967

>>213835651
>Hell on Earth Rosengård looks like paradise
yes, I must say it was also a culture shock to me to see what westerners deemed "worst ghettos" in their countries on street view and it looked like a fucking disneyland or a movie set to me

>>213826388 (OP)
Kinda, but we have 3 cities that consume resources from other regions instead of one big capital

>>213826388 (OP)
sad innit, on top of that your industry is owned by foreigners.