Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Smallish east coast cities? Haha, that's funny. LA is just extremely sprawled. The east coast has 45 million+ people in an area just the size of southern California.
And yet, the Los Angeles urban area has a higher population density than NYC's urban area.
Which might technically be true but anyone with a general knowledge of the layout of Southern California will know it is misleading.
What's misleading about that statement? It doesn't take anything away from the growth of southern California, which has been impressive. But the east coast still has a much larger population in the same area. So what?
What's misleading about that statement? It doesn't take anything away from the growth of southern California, which has been impressive. But the east coast still has a much larger population in the same area. So what?
What is misleading is that in order for your statement to be correct, you would have to be using the CSA, which includes all of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties and as discussed ad-naseum on this forum, are something like 80% completely empty desert. So yes it is a true statement but it is not like Southern California sprawls to the Nevada border, or comes even close to it. Victorville is the most proximate LA-area city (term used very loosely) to the Nevada border - at 129 miles away.
If you look at the satellite map, you can see the developed area of Southern California hugs the coast and is hemmed in by mountain ranges: http://goo.gl/maps/eIdcn
Here is an image of the truly developed parts of Southern California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SoCal_megaregion.png Much less than the 52k square miles typically attributed to it.
And either way, what matters is you took my statement completely the wrong way and assumed it as an insult to East Coast cities. Which is ridiculous because one of the small-city-limits cities is my third favorite city in the country.
Last edited by munchitup; 03-01-2013 at 10:01 AM..
Did you see the statement I quoted? It would explain it for you. Someone said how Los Angeles was incredibly sprawled. This shows otherwise. Unless you want to count cities in the northeast as even more sprawled.
What is misleading is that in order for your statement to be correct, you would have to be using the CSA, which includes all of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties and as discussed ad-naseum on this forum, are something like 80% completely empty desert. So yes it is a true statement but it is not like Southern California sprawls to the Nevada border, or comes even close to it. Victorville is the most proximate LA-area city (term used very loosely) to the Nevada border - at 129 miles away.
If you look at the satellite map, you can see the developed area of Southern California hugs the coast and is hemmed in by mountain ranges: Google Maps
Here is an image of the truly developed parts of Southern California: File:SoCal megaregion.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Much less than the 52k square miles typically attributed to it.
And either way, what matters is you took my statement completely the wrong way and assumed it as an insult to East Coast cities. Which is ridiculous because one of the small-city-limits cities is my third favorite city in the country.
Okay, I'm still not getting your point. So maybe, let's just forget it. lol.
Btw, because of 'homers" voting, you should have made this vote public. On the Northeast cities thread, I noticed a few people from the Northeast were voting for their home cities (one city in particular) even though the OP specifically said only for people outside the Northeast to vote.
Yes, I'm aware:
Quote:
Originally Posted by pgm123
I didn't mean to make this a secret poll, btw. It's supposed to parallel the other thread. Is a mod able to change that, or is it too late?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
