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True, but there's still a significant change going from Jersey into Manhattan while DC blends in with Maryland and Virginia much more seamlessly IMO. The Maryland and Virginia suburbs function as extensions of DC with all of the government agency headquarters located on both sides of the border.
There's really not a big change at all, especially when considering the outer boroughs.
There's really not a big change at all, especially when considering the outer boroughs.
There's no big change going from Staten Island to New Jersey. But there's a huge change once you cross over into New Jersey from Manhattan (even with the high rises in Jersey City).
There's no big change going from Staten Island to New Jersey. But there's a huge change once you cross over into New Jersey from Manhattan (even with the high rises in Jersey City).
I would say DC, Maryland and Virginia seem to be more intertwined with each other just in basic everyday life. If you live in DC and want to go to a real shopping mall, you have to go to Pentagon City (Virginia) or Montgomery Mall (Bethesda). If you need to go to an airport, you go to National (Virginia) or BWI (Maryland). I feel like going to Virginia from DC is really more like going from one borough of NYC to another.
New Yorkers, on the other hand, don't really need to go to New Jersey for anything. And getting to Jersey is a huge hassle anyway. It's not a huge hassle to get from Philly to Jersey, but again, there's no real need to go there when everything you need is on the PA side of the river.
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There's no big change going from Staten Island to New Jersey. But there's a huge change once you cross over into New Jersey from Manhattan (even with the high rises in Jersey City).
If I'm not mistaken its even more seamless from crossing NJ into Staten than crossing the Verrazano from Staten to Brooklyn.
There's no big change going from Staten Island to New Jersey. But there's a huge change once you cross over into New Jersey from Manhattan (even with the high rises in Jersey City).
It doesn't feel all that different to me. Look, yeah, NOTHING looks like Manhattan, but feel, no. But I'm a lifelong area resident, maybe that's why. I'm sure a transplant or tourist would feel shocked entering Manhattan.
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The NYC area is so massive, densely populated and built up that it feels more cohesive than almost anywhere else.
Looking out from the top of the Empire State Building, you feel like you're at the center of the world.
But do you feel like that when including Connecticut? To me it seems like less of a factor in the metro area than even places like Long Island. Maryland, Virginia and DC hold close to equal weight when talking cross commuting and activities or destinations in each.
It doesn't feel all that different to me. Look, yeah, NOTHING looks like Manhattan, but feel, no. But I'm a lifelong area resident, maybe that's why. I'm sure a transplant or tourist would feel shocked entering Manhattan.
It feels different too. I don't think being a lifelong resident or a transplant has much to do with it.
I also thought of adding New England area as well. One question about Chicago area, for the category of seeing license plates from the other states in the region. How prevalent is that in Chicagoland? Here in the DMV you can get to any of the three jurisdictions without going through a second state so we often see each other's license plates across the metro. From Indiana to Wisconsin you obviously have to pass through Illinois. Is there much cross commuting all the way across that stretch?
Very common to be in the Loop and to see both Wisconsin and especially Indiana license plates BUT that is more commonplace in the DMV between Maryland, Virginia, and of course the District of Columbia itself. I would say its common in Chicagoland but not as dominantly prevalent like it is in New York's Tri-State Area or the Washington's DMV area.
To answer the second part of your question, there is little commuter interflow between Indiana and Wisconsin itself. Illinois absolutely has to serve as the joint that connects the two. In this instance, Chicagoland's Tri-State Area would play a backseat to New York and Washington's.
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