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Thing with Los Angeles is you go street to street and you can keep going from street to street like 50 miles out into the inland empire and never feel like the development or civilian mass has dropped off. That wins out.
I remember all the drives from San Jose into San Francisco, the area near Palo Alto/Stanford drop off and becomes way narrow.
Cleveland-Akron of Ohio. Why they aren't recognized as one MSA, I don't think I'll ever comprehend; especially since both Summit and Cuyahoga counties border each other, many residents commute between both cities, and vast majority of the locals recognize the area as one main area. And secondly the real CSA for the area is Cleveland-Akron-Canton.
The same standards are applied to all metro areas. It's just that Durham County is home to the vast majority of the largest jobs center of the region, so it has enough jobs within its borders to not be economically reliant on Wake County. However, I'm pretty sure the commuting patterns region-wide are stronger than what might be found in other regions, but not strong enough to form one MSA according to the current standards.
Raleigh has city limits in Durham County, and Durham has city limits in Wake County....so how does that really make since?
Raleigh has city limits in Durham County, and Durham has city limits in Wake County....so how does that really make since?
Municipal boundaries are pretty arbitrary though; they really have little bearing on commuting patterns across county lines. Core-based statistical areas are county-based, not municipality-based. It's not a perfect setup by any means, but that's how things stand for now. That said, it's only a matter of time before the Triangle is a singular MSA once again.
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