Top 5 metros by feel (excluding NYC and LA) (live, best, bigger)
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Excluding NYC and LA how would you rank the top 5 "biggest feeling" metros in this country? By this it could be anything from driving through the metro on a highway to driving through the city streets.
I should have excluded Chicago also since it will immediately be the first pick by everyone, except maybe Houstonians.
This is the second thread you made about this. Why do you have to always go into the Houston forum and concern yourself with what they are saying there? You are obsessed. Grow up dude.
Outsiders don't go into the Dallas forum to listen to you all talk about y'all having the best fashion this side of Paris and then run to the City vs City forum and make multiple threads about it
Hmmmnn...aside from the obvious (Chicago) I can't hardly say since they are so different. I guess if I were to throw out what I know about which areas have more people I might have said:
1. SF (I include San Jose since that's how it "feels")
2. DC
3. Philly
4. Atlanta (huge, but sparse)
5. Dallas
But I could add Boston and maybe Phoenix and Detroit. I haven't been to Houston.
Im not saying these are the five biggest by feel although I do feel that the Bay Area, Chicagoland and Boston are among the 5 biggest in size. Seatle and Salt Lake imo are the biggest beyond their population.
The Bay Area is developed in such a way that there are islands of sprawl spread out over a very vast area.
Chicagoland is massive.
The Boston CSA seems to sprawl forever in all directions.
Seattle's sprawl is far bigger than its size imo.
Salt Lake City north to south from Brigham City to Spanish Fork is a massive beast that is well beyond its population. Narrow but very long like the Bay Area.
The smallest Metro in feel is definitely Las Vegas.
Last edited by 18Montclair; 04-21-2011 at 12:00 AM..
The Bay Area is developed in such a way that there are islands of sprawl spread out over a very vast area.
Chicagoland is massive.
The Boston CSA seems to sprawl forever in all directions.
Seattle's sprawl is far bigger than its size imo.
Salt Lake City north to south from Brigham City to Spanish Fork is a massive beast that is well beyond its population. Narrow but very long like the Bay Area.
The smallest Metro in feel is definitely Las Vegas.
I think you perfectly grasp what dtownboogie took out of context.
you seem to get that an area feeling bigger than it is does not mean it feels like an existing metro bigger than itself.
I would add Miami, seriously...not to boost it but when you ride through neighborhoods like Little Havana or a city like Hialeah for example, you feel like you're in a big city. It almost gives you like an East LA feel.
Well, I'll take Salt Lake and Vegas for example. Vegas has a bigger population but look at these to-scale maps of population density from the 2010 Census(Threw in Phoenix for good measure):
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