Put away your 1960s travel guide.

According to GaWC's 2024 city classification, London and NYC are the only "Alpha++" cities in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities...

Subjectively, I visited London twice over the last year and it felt fun and bustling.

>The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) is a British think tank that studies the relationships between world cities in the context of globalization. It is based in the geography department of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, United Kingdom

I had to wonder why London would rated be above Tokyo and I had my answer immediately.

Here's a Vancouver based one putting London top https://www.worldsbestcities.com/rankings/worlds-best-cities...

personally I think #1 is overdoing it even though I live there but probably top 5. Depending what you prioritize.

Isn’t Canada part of the English empire?

Why would Tokyo be rated higher than London in the globalization index? (Asking honestly.)

Well two posts ago you said London was one of the world’s great cities. Not that it was the most open to economic globalization which is a vastly different point to try to make.

The first two sentences of the wiki reveal both the British nature of the publication and its focus not on great cities but on measuring how large cities are open to investment and trade from foreign markets.

This is as close to approaching no one’s definitions of a great city as I am aware.

People wealthy enough to live anywhere they want, often move to London. Or an island off of Miami.