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I still say it would take something freakish like a LA-San Fernando Valley split to put Chicago at #2 again any time soon.
Did you actually know about that or did you guess? The SFV has been trying to secede from LA for a while now and it is actually on their ballots. Last year, the secession passed, but LA City Council officials quickly put down the idea.
About people living in LA. If I told you I lived in Playa del Rey, El Segundo, El Sereno, Van Nuys, Calabasas, or something similar, would you know that I lived in LA? The answer would be no for at least 50% of people not living in LA. People consider themselves part of LA since we count the city (almost 4 mil) as one stastic, the county (10 mil) as another, LA and OC as another, and the Greater LA area of Ventura, SB, and Riv. counties as another (over 20 mil). The greater LA area covers almost 5k sq. miles so it would be insane to say that we all live in LA. Also, within LA county (which is what most consider to be LA), there are many, many individual incorporated and unincorporated cities (Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Long Beach, etc. are all examples of cities within the LA area.
About the economy, you are correct. I don't know about LA by itself, but in all of CA, if were our own country, we would have the fifth largest ecnomony in the world!
YEa, chicago should to be the second largest in the us.Largest cities in the United States by population by decade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If all the global stuff reall happens yes. Maybe 50-70 years i think most of the coastal cties will be flooded. When that happens everyone will come back to the midwest and chicago would be number 1. The midwest will be really valuable seeing how the largest freshwater lakes are located there. Imagine buying plenty of real estate have it set up for your grandkids. they will be rich !!!
[quote=jessemh431;1759001]Did you actually know about that or did you guess? The SFV has been trying to secede from LA for a while now and it is actually on their ballots. Last year, the secession passed, but LA City Council officials quickly put down the idea.
About people living in LA. If I told you I lived in Playa del Rey, El Segundo, El Sereno, Van Nuys, Calabasas, or something similar, would you know that I lived in LA? The answer would be no for at least 50% of people not living in LA. People consider themselves part of LA since we count the city (almost 4 mil) as one stastic, the county (10 mil) as another, LA and OC as another, and the Greater LA area of Ventura, SB, and Riv. counties as another (over 20 mil). The greater LA area covers almost 5k sq. miles so it would be insane to say that we all live in LA. Also, within LA county (which is what most consider to be LA), there are many, many individual incorporated and unincorporated cities (Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Long Beach, etc. are all examples of cities within the LA area.
That is the point I was making. I lived in Van Nuys years ago and thought of myself living in Van Nuys, not LA. Like LA, Chicago has numerous surrounding cities, like Van Nuys, (refered here as suburbs of Chicago). Some of which have fairly substantial populations. So as you said, they will say they live in Chicago, but technically they don't and they're not considered part of Chicago's actual population. Chicago is similar in that we have 3 statistics; those who acutally live IN Chicago, those who live in Cook County and then the total population including Chicago, Cook County and all of the outlying suburbs which include other counties.
Chicago's Population doesn't seem to be growing rapidly,while L.A's Population continues on a rapid increase,so nope I don't think Chicago's Population will surpass L.A.
It depends on what you are referring to when you say "LA." There are calculations for the city of LA, the county of LA, the LA metro area which includes both LA and Orange Counties, and the LA Combined Statistical Area (CBA) which includes LA, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties.
Within the city of LA itself, there are many distinct neighborhoods and districts that the post office allows residents to use the name of in their mailing address even though they technically live in the city of LA. Examples of this would include Pacific Palisades, Venice, Hollywood, Century City, and most of the neighborhoods in the Valley like Van Nuys, Encino, Tarzana, Sherman Oaks, etc. All of these places are part of the city of LA.
It's just like Brooklyn and Queens. They're both part of NYC.
It depends on what you are referring to when you say "LA." There are calculations for the city of LA, the county of LA, the LA metro area which includes both LA and Orange Counties, and the LA Combined Statistical Area (CBA) which includes LA, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties.
Within the city of LA itself, there are many distinct neighborhoods and districts that the post office allows residents to use the name of in their mailing address even though they technically live in the city of LA. Examples of this would include Pacific Palisades, Venice, Hollywood, Century City, and most of the neighborhoods in the Valley like Van Nuys, Encino, Tarzana, Sherman Oaks, etc. All of these places are part of the city of LA.
It's just like Brooklyn and Queens. They're both part of NYC.
Yes thank you for saying that. just like north hollywood Its still L.A. even though the mail says noth Hollywood. Just like Queens in ny. my friend said that he recieves his mail with Queens on it. But Queens is still new york.
Van Nuys is a general neighborhood within the distinct City of Los Angeles within the County of Los Angeles within the State of California.
I live in the neighborhood of Lakeview within the distinct City of Chicago within the County of Cook within the state of Illinois.
Exact same situation in both areas. They might mark the mail differently since LA is physically so much larger than Chicago, and Chicago has a very strict grid and street system which makes marking mail for the entire City at once extremely easy. Other than that, it's just a post office thing, but means nothing more.
I tell everyone I live in Lakeview when I meet people, not Chicago. Even though I associate myself with Lakeview, I of course know I DO live in Chicago.
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