I thought this was interesting http://www.theatlantic.com/business...-countries-how-would-they-rank/241977/#slide5 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX With $378.9 and $376.8 billion in GMP, the Houston and Dallas metros are the world's 31st and 32nd largest economies. Each is bigger than Austria's ($375.5), Argentina's ($368.9), and South Africa's ($363.7).
Looking at this again, thats just mind blowing New York with how small it is hangs right there with the entire area known as Canada WOW
Weird. I was reading about something similar to this a few days ago, but what I was reading included the world's cities, not just US cities. In terms of GDP, Tokyo is considered the "biggest" city economy in the world, with New York second. I believe the rest of the top 5 were LA, then Chicago and London. The DFW area was around 14-15 and Houston was a few notches below that. There were a ton of US cities up there, but you also saw others like France, Osaka, Mexico City, etc. above our Texas cities.
I guess for the sake of discussion I'll posit that these cities might not be nearly this wealthy if they weren't all part of the United States. I think the midwest and northeastern seaboard would have most of the capital and innovative industries because they got the Transatlantic ports and the 200 year head start on education; but they'd also probably look like Shangai or Calcutta, just hell on earth if you're not wealthy or powerful. I don't think Houston would be much education or banking-wise without Yankee capital or philanthropy.
Um, Shanghai is an extremely modern city that makes lots of US cities look Colonial. I was extremely impressed when I went there for work.
Just Barely though. Riceland? or the university? Can't be Wheeler Brick putting them in the feint yellow.
