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See New York here? If you cut it up into a thousand little cities, would each of those cease to be urban?
No. But if you glue of all New Jersey together it will not magically become more urban and lively either...
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Originally Posted by missRoxyhart
And do you see Jersey City next to it and Newark right behind it on the map above?
If you extended one of their boundaries to include all the people in the county would they be urban then? It doesn't matter how many people live within Newark's city limits, that's an arbitrary line. Just like all of New York City's area would still be urban if it was divided into a thousand smaller cities. The area is urban and there's no denying it. The city lines within the area have nothing to do with it's urbanity.
Even if Newark was ten times bigger I, and most people, wouldn't like to live there. New Jersey abandonded once thriving city of Newark and let it rot. What's your point?
Yes, "urban" as in not "rural". Then again suburb is suburb - a boring place with not much of a city life. It does not change the fact that New Jerseyans and not big city folk, they don't like big cities, they abandoned their own demoting themselves to living in an endless suburbia.
...That's your own definition and ideas, nothing more.
"It does not change the fact that New Jerseyans and not big city folk, they don't like big cities, they abandoned their own demoting themselves to living in an endless suburbia."
...That's your own definition and ideas, nothing more.
"It does not change the fact that New Jerseyans and not big city folk, they don't like big cities, they abandoned their own demoting themselves to living in an endless suburbia."
See my post above, especially the last lines.
It's not a definition, it's fact. Suburbs are boring and not really happening.
People move to the suburbs not enjoy the city life but to escape it.
The fact is that New Jersey had one real city and it abandonded it favoring endless suburb over city life.
Apparently, the statement was made- So you're statement is false.
Your provincial, close minded ignorance never fails you.
Do you know how many ex-NYer live in Hudson county? Do you know how many NYC business moved on over to Jersey City? Do you realize the NYC urban overflow in general is why Hudson County is what it is? I find it quite odd that NYers would never consider Hudson County as an "unofficial 6th boro"- They're the ones that created that term once they moved there in the first place.
Of course they are two separate states- I know that, you know that- EVERYONE knows that. The term "6th boro" isn't anything more than simple observation- No need to crap bricks over it. There will never be a 6th boro.
Hudson county is at the opening of the Hudson river, it has Ellis Island and liberty islands located in it's waters, it has tunnels/bridges/trains/ferrys to both Manhattan and Staten Island, and It's more urban than all other areas of the NYC metro.
It's pure logic to where Manhattan's urban overflow has ended up- Get over it.
For a true NYer you spend a lot of time worrying about NJ being so close -- Keep NJ out of your mouth and maybe you'd be a truer NYer... please do... just never enter another NJ thread again and prove that you really are a "true NYer" .... because as of right now, you seem to talk down on NJ to feel better about yourself- Where you live is apparently all you got as far as personal status goes.
It's not a definition, it's fact. Suburbs are boring and not really happening.
People move to the suburbs not enjoy the city life but to escape it.
The fact is that New Jersey had one real city and it abandonded it favoring endless suburb over city life.
Excuse me but weren't you the one who was touting Wikipedia as the source to trust here? The source that tells us a suburb is a community where many or most of the residents commute elsewhere to work. That's the only rule here. There is no rule saying a suburb can't be urban, and your definition of what a suburb is, is just the popular culture concept of the fences, lawns, barbecues, and stuff. That's the image most people think of when you mention suburb, that doesn't mean it's the only way a suburb can be.
How many uneducated dolts think of tribes people living in huts in Africa. It's a very popular cultural image, and people don't stop to think that while there are communities scattered about like that, Africa is covered in "modern" cities, and urban centers like Cairo, Lagos, Kilgali, Johannesburg, and countless others.
Excuse me but weren't you the one who was touting Wikipedia as the source to trust here? The source that tells us a suburb is a community where many or most of the residents commute elsewhere to work. That's the only rule here. There is no rule saying a suburb can't be urban, and your definition of what a suburb is, is just the popular culture concept of the fences, lawns, barbecues, stuff. That's the image most people think of when you mention suburb, that doesn't mean it's the only way a suburb can be.
So what is happening in your suburb? Any new art galleries? Happenings?
How about Paramus or West New York, NJ. What exactly is 'happening there?
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Originally Posted by missRoxyhart
How many uneducated dolts think of tribes people living in huts in Africa. It's a very popular cultural image, and people don't stop to think that while there are communities scattered about like that, Africa is covered in "modern" cities, and urban centers like Cairo, Lagos, Kilgali, Johannesburg, and countless others.
I don't know, but now I and everybody else here is really impressed that you are not one of those dolts and really know much about Africa's urban life while we all were thinking Cairo is mostly huts. I just don't know what does it have to do with the topic?
Jobber, think whatever you want. You ignore everything you can't answer anyway. Your definition of suburb is wrong based on your own "source" and refuse to answer the claim that NYC would still be urban if it was actually a collection of a million or a thousand small cities because you would have to admit an area's urbanity has nothing to do with city limits. Also, I have no idea why I'm arguing about this area with someone who thinks Nassau County served as a 6th borough for decades. Argue on, nobody agrees with you.
You come up w/ that all by yourself? lol. Running the course of your argument are you?
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.... because as of right now, you seem to talk down on NJ to feel better about yourself- Where you live is apparently all you got as far as personal status goes.
