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Philly is like a mini-NYC so I dislike it immensely.
Of course Philly feels like that because it was supposed to be America's showpiece city, not NYC.
I think the poll is inaccurate because a metro area between 5 million and what ever is the lowest of the big 3 or within a million of the smallest of the big 3 (Chicagoland has 9.3 million at last check; has it gone to 10 million yet?) is a mid-sized city/metro.
Another thing someone mentione din this thread... population density, I odn't want to live somewhere where I feel like Im living on top of someone.
Now, some small towns (Like Winner, SD...lamar, CO) everything is within 3 miles of each other or so... but you're only sqeeuzing a few thousan d people into an area, not tens of thousands.
another vote for San Diego. Although I do wish this town was larger then 3 million people in its metro, the region definitely has its share of bustling big city feel days when lots of events are happening throughout town. It's nice to enjoy being in a large city while still having days where you can relax without all the noise and congestion. San diego has its fair share of those kinds of days as well. Another great thing is that it's not too far a drive from orange county (pop. 3 million), LA County (pop. 10 million), and the inland empire (pop. 4 million). Even if Tijuana (pop. 2 million) is a horrible city, its something to do if u want to be a tourist and its just 20 miles to the south.
In the end, if u live in San Diego, even on quiet days within the county, something big and entertaining is always happening in one of the other counties I mentioned. Just the thought is entertaining to know, even when ur relaxing.
I feel like I can have my cake and eat it too.
P.S... Summer in San Diego is amazing! Its a quintessential summertime city 4 sure!
I like large cities (2-4 million) the best. Cities like Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, etc... are good sized cities to me- they offer many of the amenities of the really big cities do but are not overwhelmingly large.
40K people isn't small, isn't particularly rural. There's 70 something people per sq. mile here, and that's too much for me. 0.10 per sq. mile is the closest I've found to having a low enough population for me...
I know, I was confused on what populations to label each area. By 40,000 people being small-I mean the whole area has less than 40,000 people, however large that area may be. A city with 40,000 people would either be considered small/average/mid-sized. It all depends on how you see things.
Scranton has 550,000 people. That's just big enough for me. We get all of the urban amenities that our peers in the adjacent BosWash Corridor enjoy, yet we can partake in them for a less inflated cost.
For me it depends where to live - city itself or suburb. If living in a suburb I would hate overly large and sprawled out metro areas with lots of traffic, so I'd prefer something more rural (woodsy) I guess. If living in a city itself I prefer 500K to 1 Mil cities that are compact and have single family houses/row houses/townhouses not just options to live in an apartment. My favorite 3 cities are San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC. These are perfect size, compact, walkable, have good public transportation and a fair share of single family/row houses/townhouses.
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