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Charlotte doesn't even feel like a city. It may have a large metro, but the city itself feels like one huge suburb. Charlotte, get over yourself. You got decades upon decades of dense urban infill to ever be as big as you think you are.
"Big" and "dense" can be two different things. Charlotte's making progress in both areas.
It might not have a Metropolis due to NYC in the vicinity but..
Jersey City.. that may sound like i'm being naive because i might sound like a homer but it's true. Jersey City had the potential back in the 1930s to have a population of 316,000 (now has a pop of 242,000), then i wouldnt doubt it now since they have done major rehabilitation to the city overall from being a pretty dangerous place back in the 60s-80s to now being a lot more succesful with it's workforce and night life. Its population decline was around the 50s-80s when losing up to 75,000 people due to the urban decline resulting A LOT of wealthier white collar people to go off into suburbs which also made the city crime level rise dramatically.
Now that all this was set and done, JC had many higher leveled job openings after many people left. This created the rise in population in the 90s with more wealthier people and resulting the cities crime rate to go down. And at the same rate, i dont think JC will ever have a dramatic decrease in population again, but a dramatic increase...
JC has plans to broad the city. Many new office and residential buildings have been shot up in the last 5 to 10 years. The whole plan hasn't been fully created yet but is in the making and i think we should be ready to see a new big city in NJ, and it wont be a dangerous one .
I think Austin and San Antonio will eventually go the way of Dallas-Fort Worth and San Francisco-Oakland.
That's not going to happen. Way too much distance between the cities. You can see the SF skyline from downtown Oakland and vice versa with Dallas and Ft. Worth.
That's not going to happen. Way too much distance between the cities. You can see the SF skyline from downtown Oakland and vice versa with Dallas and Ft. Worth.
Seattle - Bellevue is well on its way.
Actually you can't see the Ft Worth skyline from Dallas. They're about 25 miles apart.
However I do agree with your point about Austin and San Antonio. IMHO I think SA and Austin will be like NYC and Philly in that their suburbs will practically touch, with a significant distance between their city centers.
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