Most unknown cities with city population of over 300,000 (live, Atlanta, Chicago)

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by knke0204

LA just gets a bad rap because everybody is envious of the place. What's not to like about LA? Sure, it's smoggy (sometimes) and there are a lot of people and traffic, but that's just if you let it bother you. Remember, nobody is forcing you to drive 25 miles to work, or to drive in the first place. I think LA is awesome...

I have been to Minneapolis/St. Paul once on a "road trip" and loved it
...however I think that people in Minneapolis have a "inferiority complex
" no one in their's right "mind" consider Minneapolis in the same "Breathe"
as a Milwaukee...Indianapolis....Charlotte...Kansas City it's a "notch below"
5 or a 6 Million Metro's , but their's less than 10 of those's ,your's
only peer is Seattle and maybe San Diego CA.

[boltsfanofsdpop1376]

San Diego. Mostly unknown but population at 1,279,329.

[westcoastvp]

Mesa, Az has 400,00 plus but is always ignored cause it's in the shadow of Phoenix.

[observe]

Syracuse and Des Moines

[lammius]

Originally Posted by observe

Syracuse and Des Moines

Neither of which have more than 300,000 people

[JJG]

Fort Worth


And yeah I know what you wanna say.....

"Dallas/Fort Worth is mentioned ALL the time!"

Yeah, that's just it... more than half the time you guys don't even mention Fort Worth WITHOUT Dallas.

But it's okay. I've got a feeling that's gonna start changing....

[rah]

CA has a pretty long list of lesser-known cities with 300,000+ people (CA dept. of Finance figures, as of January):

San Jose - 1,023,083
Fresno - 502,303
Long Beach - 494,709
Sacramento - 486,189
Santa Ana - 357,754
Anaheim - 353,643
Bakersfield - 338,952
Riverside - 304,051
Stockton - 292,133

[BacktoBlue]

Chula Vista, California 227,723

[kcee510]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

That's its problem. I don't think most non CA'ns even associate San Jose with Silicon Valley, and I'm guessing most don't even consider Silicon Valley a city.

Well I hope most would not consider it a city seeing that it's actually a collection of a cities. Silicon Valley starts in the lower east bay (fremont), goes all throughout the southbay and ends around the Menlo Park/Redwood city area. San Jose is consided the "headquarters" Silicon Valley because a large concentration of high tech companies are located in the city and it's the largest city by far in Silicon Valley.

[jayp1188]

Mesa, AZ
Arlington, TX
Santa Ana, CA
Aurora, CO
Toledo, OH