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Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse come to mind in upstate NY
Buff, Roch, and Syr are grouped together culturally but they are each their own metro areas and are fairly separated from each other geographically. Rochester splits the distance between Buff and Syr and it is still over an hour between from Rochester to either Buffalo or Syracuse; well over 2 hours between Buffalo and Syracuse.
I think some of those are really grasping at straws. When I think tri-cities, I think cities that share borders. At least in Nebraska, Grand Island, Kearney, and Hastings are not that close. Hastings is about 40 miles from Grand Island and Grand Island is about 55 miles from Kearney. Yes, there's not much else in that area, but I don't consider that tri-cities.
Last time I checked Hastings wasn't 40 miles from GI. Maybe Kearney, but its only about 25 from Hastings to Grand Island. Agree though that they are not the Tri-Cities by any definition. Kearney is pretty much on it's own as is GI.
Lancaster, Harrisburg, and York PA are intercommutable and share a TV market larger than Las Vegas although separate metros. What the area lacks is a brand definition - the two most common referents are "Central PA" and "Susquehanna Valley" but neither fits well -not least because both have other claimants.
I live in two metros that are considered Tri-Cities: Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill and Miami/Ft Lauderdale/West Palm Beach. Both metros are highly connected among their individual municipalities and counties. Both have a primary, secondary and tertiary structure. Both have large suburban areas that are populated beyond at least one of the named core cities. The differences between them is that Research Triangle cities are set up as the name suggests: in a triangle. This affords easier interaction of people among the three and the overall culture is more similar than different. In Miami, it's 70 miles from Miami to West Palm Beach and the two cities do not feel very physically or culturally connected to each other but both are reasonably connected to Ft Lauderdale in the middle.
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Originally Posted by Warszawa
Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse come to mind in upstate NY
That's like saying Philly-Baltimore-DC is a tri-city lol (They are actually closer)
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