City County Mergers...What City would be on another level if it merged with its County (live, cons)

[nashvols]

Originally Posted by 313Weather

Detroit would become the 5th largest city in the country again.

10th. For now.

[just_sayin']

Originally Posted by Toxic Toast

No, because the losses in Wayne County would accelerate. No one downriver wants to be in Detroit, and those communities would empty out if Detroit annexed them.

Yep.

[DevanXL]

Originally Posted by nashvols

10th. For now.

Then suffer another population drop.......

[nashvols]

Originally Posted by DevanXL

Then suffer another population drop.......

The 2010 pop would've been just over 1 million. The projections would already have dropped it several thousand below that by now.

[YIMBY]

Originally Posted by emcee squared

I would like a Ramsey County/St. Paul merger, but I can not describe how weird it would be for that city to be bigger than Minneapolis.

A Hennepin/Minneapolis will likely never happen, there are so many individual cities. Fun fact: At last count, I believe there are 300 independent municipalities in the CSA.

There are actually more. There were 334 municipalities in the 11 county Minneapolis - St. Paul MSA, but that didn't include Pierce and St. Croix counties in Wisconsin or the new MN counties that were added to the MSA this past February - Mille Lacs, Sibley and Le Sueur.

Minneapolis - St. Paul MN - WI MSA - 16 Counties
~ 465 municipalities

Minneapolis – St. Paul – St. Cloud MN-WI CSA - 20 Counties
~ 602 municipalities

[sleepless in Bham]

Originally Posted by nashvols

I wasn't picking on you, btw...it just seemed this thread went quickly to a population chest thumping match and no one bothered to consider that most of these places would be adding a fraction of the county population in a merger.

I know

[Nafster]

Both LA and Chicago would go from being cities with high densities of fun areas to cities that 90% suck (besides Santa Monica).

The only city that would turn upwards would be Detroit absorbing its relatively fun and affluent suburbs, same with Phoenix and Miami!

[speagles84]

Originally Posted by YIMBY

There are actually more. There were 334 municipalities in the 11 county Minneapolis - St. Paul MSA, but that didn't include Pierce and St. Croix counties in Wisconsin or the new MN counties that were added to the MSA this past February - Mille Lacs, Sibley and Le Sueur.

Minneapolis - St. Paul MN - WI MSA - 16 Counties
~ 465 municipalities

Minneapolis – St. Paul – St. Cloud MN-WI CSA - 20 Counties
~ 602 municipalities

If you want to talk about a lot of municipalities, Allegheny County (Pittsburgh's central county) has 132 JUST IN ONE COUNTY! Talk about be ridiculously divided.

[313Weather]

Originally Posted by nashvols

10th. For now.

I'm not sure what you mean...

Wayne County has 1.8 Million people. That would put Detroit above Philadelphia, which is in 6th place.

[YIMBY]

Originally Posted by speagles84

If you want to talk about a lot of municipalities, Allegheny County (Pittsburgh's central county) has 132 JUST IN ONE COUNTY! Talk about be ridiculously divided.

That is nuts.