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08-19-2008, 09:57 AM
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Metropoliton areas where the most populated city is not the main city
I only know 3 of these oddities
The Bay Area: San Jose- San Francisco
Hampton Rhodes: Virginia Beach-Norfolk
Southwest Florida: Cape Coral-Ft. Myers
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08-19-2008, 10:58 AM
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Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer
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Using your criteria, you could argue the Twin Cities; Minneapolis and St. Paul. Though it should be noted that your criteria is weak at best.
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08-19-2008, 12:09 PM
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San Jose is not the main city in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area? Very strange, indeed.
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08-19-2008, 12:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DC 38
Using your criteria, you could argue the Twin Cities; Minneapolis and St. Paul. Though it should be noted that your criteria is weak at best.
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You are saying St Paul, with its smaller population, is the "main" city in MSP? I live in St. Paul and know many St Paulites who would agree with you!  |
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08-19-2008, 12:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by krudmonk
San Jose is not the main city in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area? Very strange, indeed.
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Conventional definitions of metro areas tend to be irrelevant...
SiliconValley stretches from ?RedwoodShores down to SJ....SJ lacks many of the most valuable SV cos. or most affluent residents.... 
Lots of affluent live in PaloAlto area...SF (esp SOMA and PacificHts) is a distant, upscale suburb of SV...many w/o kids prefer to live in SF and drive down to SV... |
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08-19-2008, 12:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Around
You are saying St Paul, with its smaller population, is the "main" city in MSP? I live in St. Paul and know many St Paulites who would agree with you! |
Perhaps this thread is to dispute "the" and not "main." |
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08-19-2008, 12:32 PM
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Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Around
You are saying St Paul, with its smaller population, is the "main" city in MSP? I live in St. Paul and know many St Paulites who would agree with you! |
That is not really what I meant. I am thinking more along the lines of hampton roads not having a main city because there are several cities in the MSA; VA Beach, Norfolk, Hampton, etc. Hampton Roads is a word for the region, with that many cities together, it would be impossible to have a "main" city. But, I guess upon further review, MSP was probably a bad example. I will just play along with the thread and add Quad-Cities in Illinois and Iowa. Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa with Moline, Rock Island, and East Moline in Illinois. |
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08-19-2008, 12:50 PM
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Scranton and Wilkes-Barre are always competing with one another for everything. I wonder if Omaha and Papillon or Millard fight for contention as well?  |
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08-19-2008, 12:50 PM
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San Jose is part of the Same Urban Area as San Fran is.
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08-19-2008, 01:29 PM
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San Jose is in a different urban area. According to RUCA code, these are all the different urban cities in California and their geographic regions:
Los Angeles metro (Mojave Desert)
San Francisco metro (San Francisco Bay)
San Diego metro (Baja California)
San Jose metro (Silicon Valley)
Fresno metro (Central Valley)
Long Beach metro (South Coast)
Sacramento metro (Sacramento Valley)
Riverside metro (Inland Empire)
Santa Ana metro (South Coast)
Bakersfield metro (Central Valley)
Oakland metro (East Bay)
Stockton metro (San Joaquin Valley)
Modesto metro (San Joaquin Valley)
San Bernardino metro (Inland Empire)
Oxnard metro (South Coast)
Salinas metro (Salinas Valley)
Thousand Oaks metro (Conejo Valley)
Roseville metro (Sacramento Valley)
Visalia metro (Central Valley)
Temecula metro (Inland Empire)
Redding metro (Greater Sacramento Valley)
San Mateo metro (south bay)
Vallejo metro (north bay)
Santa Maria metro (Central Coast)
Santa Barbara metro (Central Coast)
Santa Cruz metro (Monterey Bay Pennisula)
San Rafael metro (North Bay)
El Centro metro (Baja California)
San Luis Obispo metro (Central Coast)
Monterey metro (Monterey Bay Pennisula)
And now to answer your question:
-Monterey
-Thousand Oaks
-San Mateo
-Vallejo
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