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Old 05-18-2017, 08:08 AM
 
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City borders are a bit irrelevant.
Yes they are in most context, but this is not one of them. Metro is appropriate word here.
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Old 05-18-2017, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Ca$hville via Atlanta
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Yes they are in most context, but this is not one of them. Metro is appropriate word here.
Yep, and Metro Atlanta Covers a lot of ground across North Georgia, even rural area's constantly being developed. Very easy to see this happening, and not hard to believe. North Georgia is a Fast growing Area, especially on the North side...I wouldn't even be surprised if Additional Counties would have been added to the Metro by then to be honest. That's Years Away though. For me though, IMO Atlanta could hold more weight by becoming a True Dense and Urban City within it's city limits or even within the I-285 belt way. Any City can sprawl to gain recognition by adding suburban districts and rural area's to claim your metro's Population but once you build that population and infrastructure within your City walls, that holds more weight. If Atlanta ever hits that Million Status, now that's a True prize, so for me this is a Mix bag of emotions as a lot of previous posters have stated, a lot of Cities are larger with a much smaller metro's than Atlanta so the city limits line is Irreverent which is true but once your Metro area starts sprawling to Alabama, Tennessee, and way past Athens to the Boondocks and back, that Theory gets Watered down real quick...

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Old 05-18-2017, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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If we could find a way to settle half of that population in ITP we could be.
Though, not half of it, a good chuck is supposed to settle within the City of Atlanta limits, giving CoA a population of 1.5 Mil. By 2050 on its own.

What I would rather focus on, is getting as many people settled near a transit hub, with commuter rail, local buses, and express buses. We could have plenty of pockets of walkable density surrounding the core city, as once were the railroad towns, with plenty of options to get around without their car.
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Old 05-19-2017, 05:56 AM
 
Location: Duluth, GA
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Not surprising, given that metro ATL is currently the 9th biggest MSA, at ~5.8 million. The 3 MSAs ahead of us, Washington, Philadelphia, and Miami, each have no more than 6.1 million, and Atlanta has a higher rate of growth than each of those metros. So, its reasonably likely to happen much sooner than 29 years from now.

Do we get a prize, or something?
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Old 05-19-2017, 06:04 AM
 
Location: Ca$hville via Atlanta
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Not surprising, given that metro ATL is currently the 9th biggest MSA, at ~5.8 million. The 3 MSAs ahead of us, Washington, Philadelphia, and Miami, each have no more than 6.1 million, and Atlanta has a higher rate of growth than each of those metros. So, its reasonably likely to happen much sooner than 29 years from now.

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Hasn't happened Yet, Just predictions into the Future!!! But Yea, might be a few Hero Cookies lined up, lol...
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Old 05-19-2017, 06:24 AM
 
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Atlanta won't be bigger than DC any time soon. It's really silly that the Census separated DC and Baltimore.
If you go north of DC you get into Baltimore's MSA in the same distance one gets from downtown Atlanta to Alpharetta.
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Old 05-19-2017, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Ca$hville via Atlanta
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Atlanta won't be bigger than DC any time soon. It's really silly that the Census separated DC and Baltimore.
If you go north of DC you get into Baltimore's MSA in the same distance one gets from downtown Atlanta to Alpharetta.


Totally Agree!!! DC and B-More shouldn't be Separate Metro's... They feel like one Big glopped together metro when driving though them to me. Just containing 2 big cities, each having their own character..
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Old 05-19-2017, 09:01 AM
 
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Atlanta won't be bigger than DC any time soon. It's really silly that the Census separated DC and Baltimore.
If you go north of DC you get into Baltimore's MSA in the same distance one gets from downtown Atlanta to Alpharetta.
As a current resident of the DC area, I see justification for DC and Baltimore being two separate MSAs, yet one CSA. Of course, that could change in the future under the current or new criteria, but they are two cities with distinct spheres of influence. I don't think they should be one MSA just due to overlapping sprawl halfway between both cities, but that is sufficient enough for them to be a singular CSA for the time being.
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Old 05-19-2017, 09:38 AM
 
Location: International
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Not surprising, given that metro ATL is currently the 9th biggest MSA, at ~5.8 million. The 3 MSAs ahead of us, Washington, Philadelphia, and Miami, each have no more than 6.1 million, and Atlanta has a higher rate of growth than each of those metros. So, its reasonably likely to happen much sooner than 29 years from now.

Do we get a prize, or something?

Yes More Traffic!!
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Old 05-19-2017, 10:21 AM
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Not surprising, given that metro ATL is currently the 9th biggest MSA, at ~5.8 million. The 3 MSAs ahead of us, Washington, Philadelphia, and Miami, each have no more than 6.1 million, and Atlanta has a higher rate of growth than each of those metros. So, its reasonably likely to happen much sooner than 29 years from now.

Do we get a prize, or something?
Not really. Washington and Miami have pretty similar growth rates. I guess they expect Atlanta to pick up steam.
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