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gosh, well then I should have been more specific. Los angeles is not as big as chicago. It is a more overpopulated suburb, which is far from being the same thing. it has really reached the point where I see that people from los angeles are truly deluded about the state and size of their city. los angeles struggles to compete with the seattle, los angeles fails to make any top 10 list for downtown or vibrancy or urban amenities. los angeles has a small urban coet with short buildings, especially compared to chicago. chicago is like a muscular man with a big you know what, los angeles is like an obese man with a micro you know what. I hope you understand the analogy I am making here.
I spent most of my life in the Chicago suburbs, and just moved to LA. I feel like I am in a bigger, more exciting and happening place.
Downtown/core Chicago was always a great place for me to go to and hang out for the day, but more as a tourist. I would feel cramped and confined if I spent 24 seven. The rest of the metro is kind of boring unless you are raising a family.
LA metro feels like a place like there is literally endless number of things to do, see, and places to hang out and people to meet. With each place being just at the right scale.
I spent most of my life in the Chicago suburbs, and just moved to LA. I feel like I am in a bigger, more exciting and happening place.
Downtown/core Chicago was always a great place for me to go to and hang out for the day, but more as a tourist. I would feel cramped and confined if I spent 24 seven. The rest of the metro is kind of boring unless you are raising a family.
LA metro feels like a place like there is literally endless number of things to do, see, and places to hang out and people to meet. With each place being just at the right scale.
I love people raised in the burbs of any city (who probably have been there a total of 20 times) acting like they know the place better than anywhere else.
Flying into LA from Seattle during the day is an incredible site to see. Starting the descend from about Santa Barbara and riding the coast is awesome. Then when you see the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Monica Mountains, the LA basin and beyond all together is when you really see how humongous Los Angeles is. Chicago is big but LA is gigantic!
Does anybody know what Chicago's population would be if its city limits were as large as Los Angeles(468 sq. miles)?
I can come close using radius data around a point. This is all based on the 2010 census.
Chicago's densest zip code is 60626.
If I form a radius of 17.5 miles around that point. It leaves 467 square miles of land.
That 467 square miles of land has a population of 3,611,847.
Therefore, the population density in that 467 square miles is approximately 7,730.
To answer your question, "Would Chicago be more populated than Los Angeles?" The answer is NO. Is this fair enough?
I can come close using radius data around a point. This is all based on the 2010 census.
Chicago's densest zip code is 60626.
If I form a radius of 17.5 miles around that point. It leaves 467 square miles of land.
That 467 square miles of land has a population of 3,611,847.
Therefore, the population density in that 467 square miles is approximately 7,730.
To answer your question. NO. Is this fair enough?
That seems fair, they are fairly comparable at the same square mileage.
One thing to note is that Chicago at 467 square miles would be (mostly) built environment.
LA includes a significant amount of square mileage that consists only of undeveloped mountain range. I don't know the number of mileage that is taken up by undeveloped land. This is part of the reason much of LA is much denser than the 8k ppsm overall figure.
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^^^ what is continually perplexing to me (and I dont know all of LA) but why does it feel so much less developed. This isnt a slight on LA but on feel it truly does not feel the core city of Chicago.
Also at 400+ miles you are pushing boundaries, that is a huge spread
LA perplexes me with all the people it doesnt feel as much the city as Chicago with many comparable if not exceeding metrics. There is something to the LA construct that dimishes the cohesion. I think I have said disjointed before and think there is some truth to it.
Maybe it is the lack of central mass, like a noght where there is a large core just pasked on every block, why to me a city like my home town can feel like a larger more crowded core.
Dunno but stats on LA perplex me because it just doesnt feel as dense
The expanse is felt but not the crush if that makes sense
After much time in LA I feel like I still have so much to learn, a tough study, like a Tolstoy book (in Russian)
This thread is more about pictures and memory than arguing, statistics, and silly nilly arguing. Refrain from talking about how many SQM a city covers density, etc there are in abundance of those topics and is not necessary here
^^^ what is continually perplexing to me (and I dont know all of LA) but why does it feel so much less developed. This isnt a slight on LA but on feel it truly does not feel the core city of Chicago.
Also at 400+ miles you are pushing boundaries, that is a huge spread
LA perplexes me with all the people it doesnt feel as much the city as Chicago with many comparable if not exceeding metrics. There is something to the LA construct that dimishes the cohesion. I think I have said disjointed before and think there is some truth to it.
Maybe it is the lack of central mass, like a noght where there is a large core just pasked on every block, why to me a city like my home town can feel like a larger more crowded core.
Dunno but stats on LA perplex me because it just doesnt feel as dense
The expanse is felt but not the crush if that makes sense
After much time in LA I feel like I still have so much to learn, a tough study, like a Tolstoy book (in Russian)
Yeah I know what you mean about it being disjointed. It doesn't look like any other big city I have ever experienced.
To me Los Angeles is more impressive flying in, with the never ending expanse of lights and streets, then mountains and more never ending lights. It is pretty incredible.
Driving in Chicago is much more mind-boggling to me. It is insane just how massive the skyline is. It really impresses me more than NYC.
This thead, and post #365 in particular, has some of the best collection of L.A. pics I've seen, and even they do not fully capture the beastly size of this city. Even the Griffith Park can't do that.
Just phenomenal stuff (pwright's work is world class too):
I spent most of my life in the Chicago suburbs, and just moved to LA. I feel like I am in a bigger, more exciting and happening place.
Downtown/core Chicago was always a great place for me to go to and hang out for the day, but more as a tourist. I would feel cramped and confined if I spent 24 seven. The rest of the metro is kind of boring unless you are raising a family.
LA metro feels like a place like there is literally endless number of things to do, see, and places to hang out and people to meet. With each place being just at the right scale.
This has always been my impression. DT Chicago is fabulous to stay/visit and Im sure live, but its not as crowded/vibrant as Manhattan or even San Francisco, but with a top notch skyline. LA is just a different animal, its just massive and has so many areas that are different and happening. Chicago has dt, old suburbs and new suburbs. Everything radiates out of downtown. LA has just so many different neighborhoods in and out of the basin.
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