Do your suburbs have their own suburbs? (largest, populations, metropolitan)

[BacktoBlue]

How is San Jose a suburb of San Francisco? San Jose is much larger than San Francisco and stands it's own ground!

[ironcouger]

no San Fran is a suburb of Oakland , Oakland is the larger city

[Golden-mind-State]

Yep, in the famous Oakland Bay Area...

[imperialmog]

Isn't the reality that in most metro areas there is more than one entity that is not a suburb? This is especially becoming more apparent as there is more than one core employment area but multiple hubs where people commute to and have cores of their own.

[prelude91]

In Chicagoland, Joliet, IL sort of acts as a city/suburb with other municipalities such as Plainfield, Shorewood, Bolingbrook, Romeoville acting as "Quasi-Suburbs" of Joliet.

[WestbankNOLA]

Yes in the sense that people from some suburbs go to other suburbs to work, shop, etc.

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by adavi215

And rnc2mbfl, I consider Apex a suburb of Cary. In my experience, Apex felt like an extension of Cary.

I had always considered Apex a suburb of Cary until recently. It's growing so fast that it's harder for me to consider it in the same way now.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by Golden-mind-State

Yep, in the famous Oakland Bay Area...

Once again: IT IS CALLED THE "SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA" BECAUSE IT IS THE AREA AROUND SAN FRANCISCO BAY. IF IT WERE THE AREA AROUND SAN FRANCISCO, THEY'D CALL IT THE "SAN FRANCISCO AREA."

[urza216]

Larger suburbs of Chicago that aren't inner ring suburbs unofficially do.

For instance, New Lenox and Manhattan, IL are essentially suburbs of Joliet..

[mas23]

Originally Posted by rnc2mbfl

Does your metro have suburbs that are more related to another suburb than they are to a central city? I suspect that many metros do.

I'll start. Raleigh's major suburb is Cary. At 140,000 people, Cary has Morrisville immediately adjacent and related to Cary more than it is to either Raleigh or Durham. Some might say that the same is true for Apex. But, at 35,000 people, Apex simply seems too large to me to be considered a suburb of a suburb.
Another suburb of Raleigh is Wake Forest. Wake Forest has Rolesville related to it as its "suburb".

I dunno if I'd say Rollesville is a suburb of Wake forest since wake forest is too small. Morrisville is definitely like a suburb to Cary and Durham tho.