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It seems your not very familiar with Philadelphia... some are complete dumps?! No neighborhoods he mentioned are dumps by any stretch of the imagination. They aren't completely rowhome neighborhoods? Huh? Really? They lack urban amenities? Again... huh? How?
Look up these neighborhoods. You're making yourself look like a fool.
Wow. I see that reading comprehension is not too big in your area. The six CC neighborhoods all have hi-rises. The rest are a mash of rowhouse hoods that have little mom and pop type stores. Where are all the high end retail stores, hotels, restaurants? Fishtown? Come on slim.
NYC is the economic power center of the US and DC is the political center for the US (That doesn't exactly make them desirable in my eyes.)
Basically, anything of significance at the the national level will involve DC in some way:
Federal crimes, secret service, civil rights, gay marriage, abortion rights, health care, food and drugs, environment, education, social security, copyrights, patent rights, financial, banking, mortgage, auto industries, IT, telecommunications, national parks, national historic sites, natural disaster response, international treaties, immigration, aviation, space, national security, national defense and on and on.
It turns out that this is the city that America has assigned to regulate all these things and more. So, I believe there is a concentration of power issue going on even though 85% of federal jobs are actually located outside the DC area.
The debate over which NE city is better seems to miss the point. I would probably take any of these 5 cities over almost every other city in the U.S., except SF and maybe Chicago. Weather aside, you just can't beat the NE corridor.
Working up the coast in terms of driving distance:
WASH-BALTIMORE: 40-50 minutes
BALTIMORE-PHL: 1.5 hours
PHL-NYC: 1.5-2 hours
NYC-BOS: 4 hours
They are all in the BOSH/WASH region. This also means that people from this area tend to stay in this area for convenience since each city can be at the minimum 1-2 hours away from each other (with the exception of NYC and BOS which is 4-5 hours.)
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What about NYC to Hartford, Hartford to Springfield, Springfield to Boston, Hartford to Providence and Providence to Boston? You didn't include any cities between NYC and Boston but you include Philly and Baltimore in between NYC and DC.
NYC to DC is about the same distance and time as NYC to Boston.
^ this thread is about the 5 major cities in the northeast, Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore and DC
The Bos-Wash shareway project would be awesome if it were to ever happen
I think is weird how you include a few more cities between NYC and DC but not between NYC and Boston even though NYC to Boston is about the same distance as NYC to DC.
I think is weird how you include a few more cities between NYC and DC but not between NYC and Boston even though NYC to Boston is about the same distance as NYC to DC.
The thread mentions the 5 biggest cities in the Northeast Corridor. Those 5 are clearly the largest, then there's a big gap before you get down to the tier that includes Providence, Hartford, New Haven, etc. Those cities fill in the population density gaps in the corridor, but they're very very small compared to Philadelphia and Baltimore. They're in the same tier as Newark, Wilmington, Allentown, and other cities in the southern half of the corridor that also were not mentioned in the OP.
The thread mentions the 5 biggest cities in the Northeast Corridor. Those 5 are clearly the largest, then there's a big gap before you get down to the tier that includes Providence, Hartford, New Haven, etc. Those cities fill in the population density gaps in the corridor, but they're very very small compared to Philadelphia and Baltimore. They're in the same tier as Newark, Wilmington, Allentown, and other cities in the southern half of the corridor that also were not mentioned in the OP.
If you look at Google Maps Satellite View with no labels, you can see that Providence urban area (those white/gray spots) is as big as Boston and Baltimore.
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