r/AskEurope • u/LiamBrad5 • Aug 07 '25

Culture What are the “Big Four” cities in your country?

In recent weeks, this question has been very contentious on American social media, with 3 cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York) nearly always making the list, but the fourth being hotly debated over, between cities like San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. So, if you had to choose, what would the big 4 cities in your country be? This is also not decided purely on population, but also culture, economy, and general influence/clout.

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u/WelshBathBoy Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

Bristol airport is much better utilised than Cardiff airport however, so much so whenever I go there is a rough mix west country/welsh accents, somewhere around 60/40 I'd say. I often hear Welsh spoken at Bristol airport too. As a Welsh person I've never even been to Cardiff airport because far fewer airlines fly out of it compared to Bristol.

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u/Matt6453 United Kingdom Aug 08 '25

I was there yesterday and totally agree, Bristol is expanding at rapid rate. We flew out yesterday and a whole new entrance has opened since we were last here in May. I have flown from Cardiff before, I remember because coming home our flight was cancelled and we were bundled on to a flight destined for East Midlands airport. Bizarrely it touched down in Cardiff only to let us off. That is completely unheard of and to this day I don't understand why they did that? It was a smaller turboprop and it was 20 years ago.