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Old 03-30-2012, 03:07 PM
 
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I was mostly shocked that Indianapolis is on the list. And, Indy is bigger than Portland? What wizardry is this?!?
Indy is actually quite a bit bigger than Portland, both in geographic size and in population. Indy is the 12th most populous city in the U.S., while Portland is 29th. If you look at their entire metro areas, however, Portland's is slightly larger.

I was in downtown Indy last fall for the first time ever, and was actually quite pleasantly surprised by how nice it was. It's not Chicago and never will be, but it definitely exceeded my expectations. The people I know who went for the Super Bowl festivities recently had similar reactions to mine.
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Old 03-30-2012, 03:11 PM
 
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It's what you'd expect from a mid-sized midwestern town. It is particularly clean, though.
Given that Indy is the second largest city in the Midwest, you're saying Chicago is the only Midwestern city that is larger than "mid-sized"? I could see that argument, but I'd call Indy, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Cincinnati major American cities, not "mid-sized towns".
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Old 03-31-2012, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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Given that Indy is the second largest city in the Midwest, you're saying Chicago is the only Midwestern city that is larger than "mid-sized"? I could see that argument, but I'd call Indy, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Cincinnati major American cities, not "mid-sized towns".
It's all relative and it all depends on your frame of reference. I have to admit that, when I first moved here, I got a kick out of coworkers who referred to places like Cleveland and St. Louis as "small towns".
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Old 03-31-2012, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Not where you ever lived
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St. Louis is small; its population is less than 400,000. However iyd MSA is approaching 2.9 million.
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Old 04-01-2012, 04:01 PM
 
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It's all relative and it all depends on your frame of reference. I have to admit that, when I first moved here, I got a kick out of coworkers who referred to places like Cleveland and St. Louis as "small towns".
Ha! Yeah, that's wild. In my mind if you have major league sports teams you're not a "small town," with the possible exception of Green Bay.
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