144 most expensive cities

M0KUJ1N said:
unless the term "Old Firm" means something entirely different on your side of Hadrian's Wall...
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Nope, I just wondered why you expect them to live in Edinburgh when they don't play there.
 
I dont know where you get that from, i dont see how Accra (Ghana) is more expensive than Lagos (Nigeria)?
People are moving to Ghana from my country to take advantage of Cheaper things there - Property, etc.
 
sorry me being an ornery sod and am causing dissension in the ranks that I should probably throw something else into the mix. What is the definition of a city? Im thinking that this survey is probably defining a survey by some arbitrary means such as population size being (for example) >= 750K people, or by transport links. Now this would probably explain why the likes of Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge etc are excluded here- they arent classed as being "large enough" to be cities (despite all having been decreed to be cities by the Queen- for a world-wide survey that probably doesnt hold water). Just a thought before people start to get worried. The places of the likes of Glasgow and Birmingham in this survey should probably mean you can place the likes of Cambridge and Edinburgh appreciably higher, even if it doesnt make a blip on the radar here ;)
 
M0KUJ1N said:
Hell if the Babylonians had their way we'd be using base 12 instead of base 10, which does have its advantages as far as common factors, days of the year, seasons etc are concerned.
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Hhhmm , 30.41666666 days hath september , april ,june and...... has a nice ring to it

And the 12 seasons , that would really P*** Vivaldi off.

Cheers,

Mark
 
The babylonian calendar operated on 360 days. Also some simple (even by this boards standards) arithmetic would yield that there would still be 4 seasons as 4 and 12 are common factors.

Study Ancient and Classical history for 8 years, earn a PhD in the subject and then feel free to criticise- at least then you'll do it with some (hopefully correct) knowledge behind your argument.
 
M0KUJ1N said:
The babylonian calendar operated on 360 days. Also some simple (even by this boards standards) arithmetic would yield that there would still be 4 seasons as 4 and 12 are common factors.

Study Ancient and Classical history for 8 years, earn a PhD in the subject and then feel free to criticise- at least then you'll do it with some (hopefully correct) knowledge behind your argument.
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I don't think it was an arguement

*Mark goes to back of class wearing a pointy " D " hat.

Yet science shows that there is 365.242199 days in a year. ( That's an arguement )

Guess the babylonians weren't that smart after all. ;)

Cheers,

Mark
 
we know that now having a fairly good knowledge of celestial dynamics and suchlike. Hell we can even use the observed results of these to predict where standard Newtonian dynamics fall down in this respect and when we have to take into account gravitational forces warping space-time due to GR. Anyway my point was that those ancient civilizations weren't really that far off the mark and it wasnt until the Renaissance when Europe started studying these matters in depth with (comparatively) little intrustion from the Church that we started to refine these theories which in a lot of ways were a lot closer to the mark than the Christian equivalents.
 
They invented the 360 day calendar , so yes 4 and 12 work well.

If they had invented a 372 day calendar the 4 and 12 rule would still work.

But neither is close to 365.242199

Cheers,

Mark
 
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