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by piva00 721 days ago
> I chalked it up as the reality of booking in the most populated city in the world.

Sorry for being pedantic but I believe this isn't really true.

New York ranks 11th in the world [0], it's not even the most populated in the Americas, nor 2nd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities

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More pedantry: Population density would make more sense in this context, but it's also not true. It's the most densely populated major city in the US, but that's definitely not the world. Per the same article, by city limits NYC is #18 out of 81, by urban area it's #74, and by metropolitan area it's #19. Densely populated, but it's no Mumbai - which, no matter how you measure it, eclipses NYC in both population and population density.
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