1. Chicago 2. Oklahoma City 3. New York City (mostly, but by no means entirely, Manhattan) 4. London 5. Las Vegas 6. Los Angeles
and, probably,
7. San Francisco
are the cities I really know, outside a single neighborhood or downtown area. (Milwaukee, Columbus, and Indianapolis, for example, I know about 20 square blocks of intimately, but would be buffaloed by anywhere else in their urbus.) I have buried or latent knowledge of Seattle, Dallas, and a handful of others that would probably come flooding back after a day or so.
But I'm generally confident in my urban-navigation skills, even in unfamiliar, non-Anglophone cities. Given a map and a decent starting point, I could probably build a pretty good working knowledge of a city in little time, and get myself to an unfamiliar location in considerably less.
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2. Oklahoma City
3. New York City (mostly, but by no means entirely, Manhattan)
4. London
5. Las Vegas
6. Los Angeles
and, probably,
7. San Francisco
are the cities I really know, outside a single neighborhood or downtown area. (Milwaukee, Columbus, and Indianapolis, for example, I know about 20 square blocks of intimately, but would be buffaloed by anywhere else in their urbus.) I have buried or latent knowledge of Seattle, Dallas, and a handful of others that would probably come flooding back after a day or so.
But I'm generally confident in my urban-navigation skills, even in unfamiliar, non-Anglophone cities. Given a map and a decent starting point, I could probably build a pretty good working knowledge of a city in little time, and get myself to an unfamiliar location in considerably less.