town and city..what is the difference?

[isabeau]

what makes a town and a city different besides the size? where i live it's called a city, but only has fifty thousand people..what is the difference between a town and a city? hubby said a city has a government..is that the difference? or what?

 

[lojak]

what makes a town and a city different besides the size? where i live it's called a city, but only has fifty thousand people..what is the difference between a town and a city? hubby said a city has a government..is that the difference? or what?

Mentality, we have a town of 300,000 but their mental state is much like Downtown Bug Tussle from Green Acres. When your city closed down at dusk than you live in a town.

 

[Headsnap]

A city has to have a cathedral, that's the difference. At least around my way it is anyway.

 

[isabeau]

A city has to have a cathedral, that's the difference. At least around my way it is anyway.

hmm interesting...my city has a cathedral...yippee

 

[unit5610]

I think technically it's the form of government they use that determins citiy or town. It actually doesn't have much to do with population. There are cities with less then 10,000 people and towns with over 50,000.
Plus cities seem to have more layers of bureaucracy, more patronage jobs and just generally more bullsh*t going on.
I'm about to work for a city so I'll be finding out firsthand!

 

[isabeau]

I think technically it's the form of government they use that determins citiy or town. It actually doesn't have much to do with population. There are cities with less then 10,000 people and towns with over 50,000.
Plus cities seem to have more layers of bureaucracy, more patronage jobs and just generally more bullsh*t going on.
I'm about to work for a city so I'll be finding out firsthand!

well congrats unit my friend...and thanks for the explanation...

 

[Mastertank1]

Mostly.....

It's the ego of the namers.
There are places as small as two digit populations called something or other city in the USA, and then there are suburban developments with multi hundred throusands of people called towns by developers who want to suggest a rural setting (Levvitttown springs to mind).
It's really just arbitrary.
The City Of Greater Pittsburgh has a population of 400,000.
In NYC 400,000 is a large neighborhood!
In Alaska and some other states, it's the population of the whole dmn state.
Like I said; arbitrary.

 

[isabeau]

It's the ego of the namers.
There are places as small as two digit populations called something or other city in the USA, and then there are suburban developments with multi hundred throusands of people called towns by developers who want to suggest a rural setting (Levvitttown springs to mind).
It's really just arbitrary.
The City Of Greater Pittsburgh has a population of 400,000.
In NYC 400,000 is a large neighborhood!
In Alaska and some other states, it's the population of the whole dmn state.
Like I said; arbitrary.

thanks Tank...makes sense to me...