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Greater LA is the most densely populated metro in the country...
Not Greater LA, just LA MSA.
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and its footprint is all in one state! No need to annex the Eastern seasboard here.
Only because its in one of the largest states. If you turn LA CSA 90 degrees and overlap it on the East Coast it would cover the geographical area from Boston to Washington DC with around ~45 million people.
Not Greater LA, just LA MSA.
Only because its in one of the largest states. If you turn LA CSA 90 degrees and overlap it on the East Coast it would cover the geographical area from Boston to Washington DC with around ~45 million people.
Most of that area of land isn't even populated (San Gabriels, desert). The area that is is small compared to the rest of California and more continous than some quad-state megapolis back East.
Most of that area of land isn't even populated (San Gabriels, desert). The area that is is small compared to the rest of California and more continous than some quad-state megapolis back East.
NYC is just as continuous as LA. If you reduce NYC MSA to the same size of LA MSA in population, (around ~12 million), NYC MSA would have higher average density as well. It doesn't matter how many state lines it crosses. The only way LA MSA is greater density now is because NYC MSA > LA CSA in population.
Not to mention that according to 2010 census New York continuous urbanized area is 29 million people.
Says the guy from LA, whose CSA land area is 3 times the size of New Yorks and bigger than New Jersey, Vermont, and New Hampshire combined...
The irony is, its actually faster to go from NYC to London than to drive from one end of LA CSA to the other.
That is actually a bad argument to be fair. A courteous poster broke down the LA CSA urbanized area before and it is still pretty dense and not near as big as the CSA suggests.
Thats true. The CSA boundaries cover county lines, and in California, particularly SoCal, the counties are huge and extend across the desert through lots of uninhabited land.
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