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What does Santa Fe have in common with the following cities: Los Angeles; Arouca, Portugal; Bangkok; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Nuuk, Greenland; and Indianapolis?
Well, Time lists them all as among the magazine’s 100 Greatest Places of 2021.
The name of the list is misleading, though.
When you designate something as simply the “greatest,” the word is supposed to have a broad meaning, as in “New York is the greatest city in the world” or “Willie Mays is the greatest baseball player of all time.” Greatest means you’re the best of the best, beyond category. When you assert that New York is the greatest city, you aren’t just claiming that the Big Apple is a great place to visit, but that it’s the best example of humanity’s tendency to gather into giant urban centers, with the best mix of culture and diversity and enterprise that can happen in such places. You’re asserting that Willie Mays isn’t just the best center fielder ever; he is the greatest of the great ballplayers who have ever appeared on the diamond, regardless of position.