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Growth in the fastest gainers appears to be slowing.
No surprise that the sunbelt cities are growing the fastest. The largest northern cities (NYC, Philly, and Chicago) all appear to be near the bottom but still had positive growth overall.
Man sooner or later, DFW and Houston will slow down but as of right now, DFW is on pace to reach a little less than 8 million by 2020 and Houston will eclipse the 7 million mark by 2020 as well. Is it me or is Detroit's bleeding slowing down?
Example - NYC at 23million!? Hell the are only 17 million in the state of NY! Are they counting all of Jersey as dependent of NYC? LMAO! Washington-Baltimore-ARLINGTON!? Arlington is the smallest county in the U.S. so to put it here as if it is some huge contributor is ludicrous. I've been to the bay area. It's not as big as D/FW for sure and neither is Boston; are they counting eastern Canada? lol
Atlanta ain't 6 million either. I lived there when that sign said 5 million and thought it was overstating. At 6.2million that would be about 60% of the state's population within 75 miles of downtown. Laughable.
Example - NYC at 23million!? Hell the are only 17 million in the state of NY! Are they counting all of Jersey as dependent of NYC? LMAO! Washington-Baltimore-ARLINGTON!? Arlington is the smallest county in the U.S. so to put it here as if it is some huge contributor is ludicrous. I've been to the bay area. It's not as big as D/FW for sure and neither is Boston; are they counting eastern Canada? lol
Um Arlington, like most of the counties in Northern Virginia, is one of Virginia's fastest growing and most populated counties.
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Atlanta ain't 6 million either. I lived there when that sign said 5 million and thought it was overstating. At 6.2million that would be about 60% of the state's population within 75 miles of downtown. Laughable.
Houston's feels very cohesive, and *much* larger than Atlanta's (there is not a true 300,000 person difference between Houston and Atlanta...Houston "feels" like it's 1-2 million more people, and it's GDP is certainly about that percentage greater).
DC and Baltimore to me feel like two totally separate cities (feels like 2 MSAs, not 1 CSA). I don't put that dynamic in the same category as Raleigh-Durham, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Francisco-San Jose, etc etc.
Dallas + Forth Worth CSA feels roughly similar to me to the Bay Area CSA, in terms of size.
The Bay Area CSA doesn't feel quite like 8.5 million people, unless you are in the city of SF. Then you realize that people come from Sac, Stockton, Santa Cruz, etc etc to party and shop on the weekends, even work during the week. But the suburbs don't feel like they are part of a 8.5 million person area. Maybe the area is generally comparable to Chicago in that regard, since Chicagoland is sooo massive and the only time you feel like you are actually surrounded by nearly 10 million people is in the city of Chicago or around the lake.
Having driven to Tahoe a bunch recently, one thing is abundantly clear: there is no break in general development between the Bay Area and Sacramento. The highway remains wide with HOV lanes, and aside from sparse breaks immediately along the Hwy sides, it is clear there is suburban development all the way there through the city and into the foothills of the Sierras. In that sense, it kind of feels like driving through IE into and across LA - endless sprawl for hours of driving. I would never put Sac and SF/Oakland/SJ into one giant CSA, though it's worth pointing out that the continuous development is probably along the lines of the continuous development between DC and Baltimore.
Atlanta feels more like a Seattle size to me than a Houston size. It's uniformly at low density, so aside from massive massive highways and an occasional suburban high-rise, that metro doesn't feel large and intense like others of its size (like Houston and DFW feel quite large and intense, despite their "lower" density and sprawl).
Miami to FTL to WPB up through St. Lucie and Vero Beach is near continuous FL sprawl. SoFla in general is *very* large and intense feeling. Driving in and through, it feels like a fast-paced city, despite being a tropical vacation/retirement haven.
Example - NYC at 23million!? Hell the are only 17 million in the state of NY!
No, there are 20 million in NY State. And you realize that the NY Metro area is mostly not in NY State, right?
The State population is completely irrelevant.
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Are they counting all of Jersey as dependent of NYC? LMAO!
Actually, yes, unlike NY State, the vast majority of NJ State geography is part of the NYC Metro area (both MSA and CSA).
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Washington-Baltimore-ARLINGTON!? Arlington is the smallest county in the U.S. so to put it here as if it is some huge contributor is ludicrous. I've been to the bay area. It's not as big as D/FW for sure and neither is Boston; are they counting eastern Canada? lol
These comments are all silly too. Bay Area is definitely bigger than Dallas; same with DC. Arlington, VA is walking distance from the National Mall; why on earth would it not be counted with DC?
Come to think of it, your entire posting is silly and sounds ignorant. You didn't even know that NJ was the largest portion of the NY suburbs. You don't even know that Arlington is practically spitting distance from the White House.
Why even post if you're so ignorant about U.S. cities?
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