Adelaide (n.) has traffic jams of four cars, and you will hear about them for weeks.
Adelaide (n.) is a place people leave for somewhere larger and then speak of fondly from there.
Adelaide (n.) runs on the discovery that your new colleague went to school with your cousin.
Adelaide (n.) is the size a city ought to be, which is why the young keep leaving.
Albany (n.) is the lobby of the White House.
Albany (n.) is famous in history by the biennial meetings of the Blackmailers' Club.
Albany (n.) is any place wherein a capitol is burned at a pre-established psychological moment. (There is a famous proverb which says, "Those who are in Albany escaped Sing Sing, and those who are in Sing Sing were on their way to Albany.")
Albany (n.) is a place beyond which Henry Hudson could not go.
Alexandria (n.) is a city remembered for a building that is not there
Alexandria (n.) is the city of the whole civilized world.