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Old 07-02-2009, 11:30 AM
 
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The latest stats show that Dallas has now overtaken San Diego in city population.

San Diego dips in rankings

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Old 07-02-2009, 11:32 AM
 
Location: North Texas
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I thought Dallas was always bigger than San Diego, I was not aware they had ever passed us!
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Old 07-02-2009, 11:36 AM
 
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Supposedly Dallas and San Diego have been volleying back and forth for years in terms of population. Hopefully this will will be final.
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Old 07-02-2009, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Lancaster, TX
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Dallas........1,279,910
San Diego...1,279,329

A difference of only 581. It doesn't get much closer than that!
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Old 07-02-2009, 01:50 PM
 
Location: The Village
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Metro is far bigger than metro San Diego, however, unless you count San Diego as a part of the giant SoCal area, which isn't really a single metro area by most definitions.
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:11 PM
 
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Metro is far bigger than metro San Diego, however, unless you count San Diego as a part of the giant SoCal area, which isn't really a single metro area by most definitions.
By D/FW definitions it is.

The distance between San Diego and Southern L.A. is roughly 70 miles. The Dallas census counts towns which are further than 70 miles from Dallas as being part of the "metro" area.

Examples, distance from Dallas:

Greenville: 70 miles.

Decatur: 68 miles.

Bridgeport: 78 miles.

Sherman: 65 miles.

And so on. By D/FW standards L.A. and San Diego and every city in between and surrounding the two are one big metro area. In that case they would still be bigger than the D/FW metro area.

However, I would not agree that the L.A. and San Diego metro areas are one anymore than I agree with Dallas including extreme outlying counties as being part of theirs. I have said it before, the 6 to 7 million population figure for D/FW is bloated. Add up how big the population of SoCal would be if they did the same thing. Heck, they could even include Tijuana in there if they really wanted to.
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:26 PM
 
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Of course it may take you three or four hours to get to LA from San Diego!

San Diego has always just looked smaller than Dallas to me.
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:37 PM
 
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The only thing that keeps San Diego and LA from becoming one continuous blob of urbanity from Santa Clarita (arguably Palmdale/Lancaster) all the way down to Tijauna is Camp Pendleton, and most San Diegans seem to want to keep it that way. San Diego has *some* ties to LA, but pretty much functions as its own metro area.

However, the exurbs of Temecula and Murrietta are technically in the LA metro area (being in Riverside County), but are essentially bedroom communities of San Diego. This created some awkward situations during the 2007 fires because most cable systems in the area receive Los Angeles channels, which were so busy covering the fires in the LA Basin/SF Valley area, so there was no coverage for the Temecula Valley area, where there were quite a few fires. The San Diego stations covered the Temecula fires, but residents complained about not being able to receive the coverage.

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Of course it may take you three or four hours to get to LA from San Diego!

San Diego has always just looked smaller than Dallas to me.
That's because the metro area is smaller. Metro San Diego has roughly 3 Million people vs. the 6 million or so in DFW.

And getting up to LA from SD via I-5 is a nightmare and a clusterf***k of epic proportions.
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:44 PM
 
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Good God, I hate "The 5" - all the way to the bay area!

My sister lives just north of Temecula on Canyon Lake - she lived in Rancho Cucamonga years ago. So I am very familiar with that area.

We used to be able to do a lot of LA/Hollywood/Beach trips a few years ago - now it's just too much damn trouble. You have to get a room!

Temecula is really suburb central with all the chains and subdivisions - Cucamonga was worse -- so yes I do know what I am talking about when I talk about suburbs.

I have to say I do enjoy the Temecula Wine Country!
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:45 PM
 
Location: 78747
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Dallas........1,279,910
San Diego...1,279,329

A difference of only 581. It doesn't get much closer than that!

1. send that to the Supreme Court, and they'll tell you SD's bigger.

2. the article is not talking about DFW, it is talking about Dallas.(not Ft. Worth) the word "DFW" is mentioned nowhere.

3. DFW as a metro area on the other hand, will continue this streak due to the lack of physical barriers - the DFW goliath will eventually rule the central plains from OK to Hillsboro.

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