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Your right its NOT in the top 25 its currently in the top 50 BUT I think we will/can move up the latter. Also its only so far it can go up as for as population goes because of our demographics but Orleans parish can hold double what it has NOW easily and other parts can hold a more ESPECIALLY the NORTHSHORE and N.O. EAST and let the truth be told Biloxi Area should be apart of our Metro.
By the way I totally agree with you "pound for pound" NOLA is a force to be reckoned with I call it the Floyd Maywheather of cities lol....
New Orleans should be able to move up the ladder a little, but it won't be like other cities are sitting still. New Orleans should be able to pass Richmond and Louisville by the next census. Maybe Memphis. OKC is growing quickly and will probably stay ahead. New Orleans should eventually overtake Milwaukee and Providence, but those Metros are like 300,000 ahead so that will take a couple of decades. And New Orleans needs to watch its rearview mirror. Raleigh is just a few spots behind NOLA and will probably pass it in the next census or two. Of course gaining new areas in the metro could change all that. Gulfport and Biloxi are pretty big, but aren't they 75-80 miles away?
I grew up in New Orleans and left after graduating from college. I just spent a month there visiting my ill father and imo, it's never been better. It is still a small city. A part of me could see moving back someday but I think it's a better place to visit than live.
I know what you mean but you're still wrong. Over 80% of the metro are of Nola lives within 15 miles of downtown. Name another American city like that, regardless of the reasons. Also, the majority of our suburbs are not sprawl-like with subdivisions and cul de sacs. They would seriously pass for "the city" in many more sprawling metros. For instance they have street grids, bus lines, and most suburban census tracts are above 5000 ppsm density. Of course these suburs are still ugly, monotonous and car-driven. But they are nothing like the sprawling suburbs of, say, northern Virginia or texas
Isn't that only because it's a small city though? I still think it's suburban outside of it's core though. That's not a bad thing to me.
To be fair, Raleigh isn't in the same tier. It's one of the few cases where the CSA including Durham is more accurate than the MSA. Raleigh-Durham functions as one metro area and its on a higher level than New Orleans, Jacksonville, Louisville, etc.
To be fair, Raleigh isn't in the same tier. It's one of the few cases where the CSA including Durham is more accurate than the MSA. Raleigh-Durham functions as one metro area and its on a higher level than New Orleans, Jacksonville, Louisville, etc.
Charlotte and Raleigh are both a snooze fest so that statement is not saying much. Cities smaller than NOLA I would rather visit are.....
Albuquerque
Providence
Honolulu
Lake Tahoe
Aspen
The Hamptons
Nantucket
Atlantic City
Spokane
Reno
Santa Barbara
Anchorage
Etc
There are many others, this is just off the top of my head.
To be fair, Raleigh isn't in the same tier. It's one of the few cases where the CSA including Durham is more accurate than the MSA. Raleigh-Durham functions as one metro area and its on a higher level than New Orleans, Jacksonville, Louisville, etc.
In other words, JAX and Louisville would have to grow 1/3 more than they are now to equal New Orleans. New Orleans would only have to grow 25% to reach the combined Raleigh and Durham MSA's. And considering that the Raleigh-Durham CSA (excluding the Dunn micro) has around 1.9 million people, and we have just over 1.2, all the comments about punching well above our weight are pretty well informed.
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