The most Decent Cities in the World
Ben and I are working on an updated world map of the locations of DE1 worldwide.
There are now 6000 Decents worldwide, which is more locations than Google Maps can normally handle. The last time we updated the map was December 2018, and Google “barfed” quite a bit at my data, back then.
A big surprise is having Singapore be #1. It's a serious coffee town, and a neighbor, so that's really cool.
Seattle, San Francisco and Austin all make sense, as coffee and tech are both big there. And then you get to the world meta cities (New York, Shanghai, London….)
I should mention that we have poor visibility into the cities in the Arab world that have Decents, as 255 DE1 were listed as going to the Hong Kong address of Aramex, to be forwarded on.
If you'd like to have a try at creating a map from this data, I've made the CSV available.
You'll need to combine alternative spellings of some cities (ie, Wien/Vienna) to get correct sums. And some addresses have non western spelling, and Excel corrupts that, so stay out of excel if you can. LibreOffice handles the non-Western characters correctly.
Here's the top 50:
| count | city | country | 100 | Singapore | SG | 87 | Seattle | US | 74 | San Francisco | US | 63 | Austin | US | 59 | New York | US | 57 | Shanghai | CN | 55 | London | UK | 51 | Brooklyn | US | 47 | Los Angeles | US | 46 | Hong Kong | CN | 41 | Beijing | CN | 36 | San Diego | US | 34 | Chicago | US | 33 | Seoul | KR | 32 | Munchen | DE | 32 | Berlin | DE | 31 | Portland | US | 28 | San Jose | US | 26 | Zurich | CH | 26 | Toronto | CA | 19 | Vienna | AT | 19 | Dallas | US | 18 | Washington | US | 18 | Oakland | US | 18 | Houston | US | 17 | Atlanta | US | 17 | Chengdu | CN | 17 | Suzhou | CN | 16 | Cambridge | US | 16 | San Antonio | US | 16 | Shenzhen | CN | 15 | Miami | US | 14 | Bellevue | US | 14 | Taipei | TW | 14 | Pittsburgh | US | 14 | Denver | US | 14 | Munich | DE | 14 | Hamburg | DE | 13 | Palo Alto | US | 13 | Orlando | US | 13 | Mountain View | US | 13 | Long Island City | US | 13 | Las Vegas | US | 12 | Jersey City | US | 12 | Vancouver | CA | 12 | Arlington | US | 11 | Charlotte | US | 11 | Albany | US | 11 | Calgary | CA | 11 | Bangkok | TH
Updated 2022/03/28