What do you consider a "big city"? (Lexington: metro area, area)

[Austin8868]

Name a few outside of the huge citys like New York, St Louis, Louisville

[beilart]

Annapolis/DC/Baltimore........3 different cities, one in the same.

[Hey_Hey]

I don't consider St louis or Louisville as being huge cities. I generally have a cutoff of around 4-5 million in the metro area before I consider it to be a "huge" city. In that case, NYC, Chicago, Detroit, LA, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas/FW, Houston, DC/Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia. Even within that grouping New York, Chicago and LA are in another league compared to the rest.

St. Louis would fall in what I consider large cities (2-4 million people). That includes places like Cleveland, Cincy, Tampa, Pittsburgh, Orlando, Kansas City, Minneapolis, San Antonio, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix, and Seattle.

Louisville falls in the "good sized city" category (1-2 million). Places like Nashville, Birmingham, Charlotte, Indy, Memphis, Columbus, Austin, Oklahoma City, and Albuquerqe. I know that's a horrible classification name, but I can't think of any better now.

Lexington would fall in the city category (500,000-1 million) along with places like Akron, Little Rock, Toledo, dayton, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Madison, and Tulsa, among many others.

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by Austin8868

Name a few outside of the huge citys like New York, St Louis, Louisville

I consider big Cities anything above 300,000
Medium Cities 200,000 - 300,000
Small Cities 100,000 - 200,000


I consider Big Metro's as anything over 4,000,000
Medium Metro's 2,000,000 - 4,000,000
Small Metro's 500,000 - 2,000,000

A Large Metro Would Be
NYC
LA
Chicago
S.F. Bay
Boston
Houston
Dallas/Fort Worth
Washington/Baltimore
Miami/Fort Lauderdale
Atlanta
Philladepphia
Detroit
Phoenix

Borderline Medium To Large Markets
Minneapolis/St.Paul
Seattle
Denver
San Diego

[urbancharlotte]

Originally Posted by Hey_Hey

I don't consider St louis or Louisville as being huge cities. I generally have a cutoff of around 4-5 million in the metro area before I consider it to be a "huge" city. In that case, NYC, Chicago, Detroit, LA, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas/FW, Houston, DC/Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia. Even within that grouping New York, Chicago and LA are in another league compared to the rest.

St. Louis would fall in what I consider large cities (2-4 million people). That includes places like Cleveland, Cincy, Tampa, Pittsburgh, Orlando, Kansas City, Minneapolis, San Antonio, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix, and Seattle.

Louisville falls in the "good sized city" category (1-2 million). Places like Nashville, Birmingham, Charlotte, Indy, Memphis, Columbus, Austin, Oklahoma City, and Albuquerqe. I know that's a horrible classification name, but I can't think of any better now.

Lexington would fall in the city category (500,000-1 million) along with places like Akron, Little Rock, Toledo, dayton, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Madison, and Tulsa, among many others.

There is a slight flaw in this classification system of metros, but for the most part I agree.