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I don't think that is quite right. That is an odd comparison
That is more than a fair comparison; Houston is indeed the 4th largest city, partly because it is 634 sq miles (2.5x the land area as Chicago), San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the US also because it covers a huge area....Im not sure anybody would say that San Antonio is larger than San Fran or Boston.
My point is that arbitrary boundries are meaningless when looking at the size of a city.
That is more than a fair comparison; Houston is indeed the 4th largest city, partly because it is 634 sq miles (2.5x the land area as Chicago), San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the US also because it covers a huge area....Im not sure anybody would say that San Antonio is larger than San Fran or Boston.
My point is that arbitrary boundries are meaningless when looking at the size of a city.
okay, let me look at it slowly. You mean Houston is the 4th largest because it 2.5 times chicago? well Juneau is like 6 times the size of chicago so that should make it number 1.2 right? doesn't migration have anything to do with it? isn't places like Houston , Dallas Atlanta, getting about a million new people each decade with the land area staying the same.
I don't understand how the land area is big and the numbers just go up.
On the other Hand San Fransisco bay area is much bigger than San Antonio surrounding area. so I don't see how your comparison is valid.
are you upset that San Antonio has a big area? I don't understand these points
I just realized that Oklahoma city and Jacksonville is big too. no your points would make sense if they were number 4 too. no. It must be something more important than land.
okay, let me look at it slowly. You mean Houston is the 4th largest because it 2.5 times chicago? well Juneau is like 6 times the size of chicago so that should make it number 1.2 right? doesn't migration have anything to do with it? isn't places like Houston , Dallas Atlanta, getting about a million new people each decade with the land area staying the same.
I don't understand how the land area is big and the numbers just go up.
On the other Hand San Fransisco bay area is much bigger than San Antonio surrounding area. so I don't see how your comparison is valid.
are you upset that San Antonio has a big area? I don't understand these points
I just realized that Oklahoma city and Jacksonville is big too. no your points would make sense if they were number 4 too. no. It must be something more important than land.
This idea of how big a city feels is interesting. I definitely feel like NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago are bigger cities than Houston, and that's expected. However, San Francisco, Miami, and Philadelphia also feel like larger cities to me than Houston. On the other hand, though Boston and DC have bigger CSAs, I feel like Houston is in some sense a bigger city even though Houston is nowhere near as bustling on the ground level as either city. I do feel it's a combination of density, street level vibrancy, skyline, and personal/cultural bias (I definitely heard more about all of the aforementioned cities growing up than I did about Houston growing up, so they probably have some kind of personal prominence for me).
Houston being the 4th largest "city" is as relevant as San Antonio being a larger "city" than San Fran and Boston.
SA has dense walkable neighborhoods, and a walkable downtown. Therefore SA IS a larger city than SF and BOS.
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