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1. No one in Los Angeles should feel like their city is "treated as backwater". Try living in Ohio
2. Their argument that Los Angeles is bigger than NYC because Los Angeles County has more people than the five boroughs is very asinine.
LA County Land Area: 4,000+ square miles
New York, Queens, Kings, Richmond and Bronx Counties Land Area: 302 square miles
Not to mention you could just add adjacent suburban counties population to the five boroughs and it would still be more populous in a much smaller land area. e.g. Nassau: 1.3 million+ Westchester: 970,000+ Bergen (NJ): 939,000+
3. Vegas is 4.5 hours away....so I guess NYC should get to count all of the amenities of the Jersey Shore, Philly, Boston and D.C. since they are all under 4.5 hours away.
4. LA has more land area in it's county and city borders...that is definitely true.
5. LA allegedly has denser suburbs Regardless I fail to see how that would make L.A. bigger or denser.
The author probably has a size complex of some sort. Seriously, this is pretty bad journalism as it tries to compare stats in two metro areas that are entirely different. Get over it. NYC metro is huge. LA is huge jr.
I wish that some of these people had better judgement. It makes them look really bad when their actual first name and last name is printed alongside an absurdly asinine article. Since he's a contributor and writer on that site, it even has his picture.
"If we count San Diego". Yeah, okay, guy. Must have not even bothered to consult a map. All around embarrassing for the guy that wrote it.
While comparing CITY population is not always fair, comparing LA county with NYC is far more stupid, considering LA county covers 12,305 sq km, while NYC has 780 sq km. The author has to expand the land by 15 times in order to get a 22% population advantage (10M vs. 8.3M). So pathetic.
Those are the replies I was expecting, I thought I must have missed something.
I'm not going to take this opportunity to denigrate the city of Los Angeles because the city hasn't really done anything wrong.
However, the person that wrote the article, this "Dennis Romero", is an idiot. I want my 5 minutes that I lost reading this trash back.
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Regardless I fail to see how that would make L.A. bigger or denser.
