What about all those Oil Companies, All the refining and MIning? HOuston has many many head quarters with international connections. You want to tell me that places like ATL, DFW and PHilly has tons of head quarters with international connections and Houston doesnt?Īgain BS. If that was true places like Orlando would be Alpha *** Laude. The ranking is a hierarchy of Connection. If a firm from another region decides to locate an office in your city 'or the other way around' then your city and the other city both are connecting. The above doesn't have a dang thing to do this GaWC rankings.Ĭompany head quarters is actually part of what they are looking for, But again there ranking is about 'connecting' If a city has a HQ but that firm doesn't really have regional offices around the world that firm is not connecting that city. How cultured or cultural unique a city is. Global = connected to the world, understand? The more a city is connected to another city the higher it will rank.įollowing has NOTHING to do with their ranking, but is what half the poster upset over.Ĥ. They are NOT about World Class or anything like that. There concept of 'global' mean how connected city A is to city B in another region of the world. So I'm going to tell you and other posters what they are looking for, half of yall posters are upset over a ranking yall don't even know what the heck they're ranking in the first place.

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