Airports, Cities and Cityports

There is an inverse correlation between great cities and great airports:

1) New York -Last Remaining Slum in the City
2) London - Thiefrow
3) Paris - What can one say?
4) Rome - Whatever they are calling it these days (Leonardo, Fiumiccino)
5) Mumbai - there is an airport?

On the other hand you have two cities that have made themselves into the image of their airports, complete with transient populations:

a) Singapore
b) Dubai

Hong Kongers do not try and get your city into the exception list - you are living off the colonial legacy of Kai Tak. Besides, Chep is about as much part of HK as is Shenzen.

Any maybe that is the moral of the story - let's keep our grotty airports and make the good ones far away from great cities lest we contaminate ourselves with fake Irish villages.