There are only 3 cities: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
You offended yet?
I read this on a t-shirt while strolling by a shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans with my kids on a beautiful afternoon over Spring Break.
Why would someone write something so offensive to literally EVERYONE (aside from those millions who live in those 3 aforementioned cities). No one is going to buy those t-shirts.
They wrote it because it is true. Offended again? It isn't TRUE in the sense that you can "prove it mathematically", "make a case in a court of law" or "take it to the bank"; it is true in the sense that these cities, The Big Apple, The City by the Bay and The Big Easy, are cities that have a distinct identity.
How did they become so famous? Well, each has a story carved out through the generations of immigrants, travelers, settlers and fortune-seekers.
Guess what? I don't think our great city is Cleveland (no offense to the "Mistake on the Lake"). In fact, our great city of Yukon has a distinct identity on a smaller scale than NYC, SF or NOLA.
The challenge for every great city is to retain the distinctiveness while re-inventing itself in each generation.
Up for the challenge? How will we retain our distinctiveness in the next 50 years?
We have been a distinctive city - home of the world's finest flour and a capital of Czech cultural heritage in middle America.
Ready for the good news? Me too.
There may only be three cities but Yukon is one of them!
