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Quite a few big suburbs are overshadowed by their principle city but their are also a large number of cities which are usually overshadowed by even a larger city.
Jacksonville, FL (800K)
Columbus, OH (730K)
El Paso, TX (610K)
Oklahoma City, OK (540K)
Fresno, CA (470K)
Mesa, AZ (450K)
Tulsa, OK (380K)
Witchita, KS (360K)
Quite a few big suburbs are overshadowed by their principle city but their are also a large number of cities which are usually overshadowed by even a larger city.
Jacksonville, FL (800K)
Columbus, OH (730K)
El Paso, TX (610K)
Oklahoma City, OK (540K)
Fresno, CA (470K)
Mesa, AZ (450K)
Tulsa, OK (380K)
Witchita, KS (360K)
I agree about Oklahoma City. It has a lot going for it but often gets overlooked on retail options because of its proximity to Dallas. Most people in OKC drive to Dallas for upscale shopping options because upscale chains refuse to locate in a working-class market that is in some ways almost a huge suburb of DFW. Same goes for restaraunts in OKC. Its amazing some of the things that they DON'T get that even more smaller markets do.
Tulsa is in a better situation being far enough from a Tier I market and also having a more upscale image (although I like OKC better). They generally get stuff before OKC does if OKC even gets it at all.
In the Midwest, I don't hear about Dayton or Omaha at all.
Also I think that in states with more than one metro, the smaller metro(s) tends to get overshadowed by the biggest one(s),
It's interesting because in a rural state in the Great Plains/Deep South a metro of 800,000 would be very prominent whereas not so much in a state like Pennsylvania, California, Michigan, and Ohio.
Oklahoma City, OK
Tallassee, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Macon, GA
Indianapolis, IN
Fresno, VA
Tulsa, OK
Eugene, OR
El Paso, TX
Porland, ME
Columbus, OH
Lincoln, NE
Jackson, MS
Akron, OH
Flint, MI
Milwaukee, WI
Memphis, TN
Little Rock, AR
Anchorage, AK
Fargo, ND
Bismark, ND
Des Moines, IA
Montgomery, AL
And I should have mentioned El Paso, TX. That is a real easy one to overlook, especially since Texas has five major cities, two of them considered in the running for world class.
Does anyone think that Columbus isn't mentioned as much in the national media as much. I do see Columbus getting regional attention, and is mentioned sometimes on the east coast in like the NY times, but in general, I feel that Columbus isn't mentioned much from west coast sources like Hollywood.
Does anyone think that Columbus isn't mentioned as much in the national media as much. I do see Columbus getting regional attention, and is mentioned sometimes on the east coast in like the NY times, but in general, I feel that Columbus isn't mentioned much from west coast sources like Hollywood.
I agree. I live in Chicago and never hear about Columbus, even here.
Northeast Jefferson, Colorado - Never even heard of it. Never in my life. Population; 450,116
I'm not sure what that is, either, and I live in Colorado. I looked it up on City-Data and it seems to mean the unincorporated part of northeastern Jefferson County. I have never heard that term before, and I have lived in CO for 27 yrs.
I just looked up Jefferson County Co's population on its website, and it is approximately the same as what CD gives for this place. I think this is an error, as there are several cities within the county, and the unincorporated area tends to be in the mtns, where there aren't as many people.
Last edited by Katarina Witt; 10-22-2007 at 12:41 AM..
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