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What I’ve noticed about Atlanta is that most of the people that I’ve come across actually live in the metro area but “claim” Atlanta. I’m guessing it’s because the city proper is fairly small, but the metro is fairly vast.
^ To that point, I find a lot of people don't even know the difference between a city and suburbs/MSA in a few areas. I have had a handful of friends who have lived in Dallas for a handful of years literally not know that a city like Plano is not actually the city of Dallas. They all lived in suburbs but thought they were living in Dallas proper, but still knew the name of their suburb. Not that uncommon though as I've found that people outside of the actual urban cities (NYC, Chicago, SF, Philadelphia, etc) sometimes have a hard time understanding this concept.
My mom was born in Jersey City and grew up in cities around there like Hoboken, Jersey City, etc. She hadn't been back there until recently since the early 1980s. When I first started working in NYC, I was working in Jersey City for a few months first actually. When I told her where (Newport), she just said "oh, that area is a huge **** hole." She lost touch with it so when I showed her, she was really confused and was surprised at how much it had changed. She would tell me how in the 1950s and 1960s everyone had double and triple locks on their doors in these cities and how her parents (aka my grandparents) got a bunch of jewelry stolen from the house even with all security measures, bars on windows, etc.
How times have changed...
Oh I believe it. I had a friend's dad close up a dry cleaners shop in Jersey City in the early 1990s because he was tired of sweeping up heroine needles every morning when he opened up shop.
Hoboken I don't think was every THAT bad - it was always very white, factory oriented, polluted and pretty dumpy overall. The change drastically started in the 1980s.
^ To that point, I find a lot of people don't even know the difference between a city and suburbs/MSA in a few areas. I have had a handful of friends who have lived in Dallas for a handful of years literally not know that a city like Plano is not actually the city of Dallas. They all lived in suburbs but thought they were living in Dallas proper, but still knew the name of their suburb. Not that uncommon though as I've found that people outside of the actual urban cities (NYC, Chicago, SF, Philadelphia, etc) sometimes have a hard time understanding this concept.
I actually know someone from Albuquerque that lived in "Unincorporated Albuquerque" But still use the ABQ address. If you look at the map of ABQ city limits, they're not inside the lines, but can still use the address. Strange.
Maybe it's the fact that these cities built up and annexed later on so lines are blurred?
^ To that point, I find a lot of people don't even know the difference between a city and suburbs/MSA in a few areas. I have had a handful of friends who have lived in Dallas for a handful of years literally not know that a city like Plano is not actually the city of Dallas. They all lived in suburbs but thought they were living in Dallas proper, but still knew the name of their suburb. Not that uncommon though as I've found that people outside of the actual urban cities (NYC, Chicago, SF, Philadelphia, etc) sometimes have a hard time understanding this concept.
They don't realize that they're not paying for services from the city of Dallas?
I actually know someone from Albuquerque that lived in "Unincorporated Albuquerque" But still use the ABQ address. If you look at the map of ABQ city limits, they're not inside the lines, but can still use the address. Strange.
Maybe it's the fact that these cities built up and annexed later on so lines are blurred?
Paradise and Winchester, Nevada do this too, for obvious reasons
That their kids don’t attend Dallas public schools and their streets aren’t patrolled by Dallas PD?
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They don't realize that they're not paying for services from the city of Dallas?
Yep! Well none of them had kids at the time. When I asked them if they could vote for the mayor of Dallas, it finally hit them that they don't actually live in Dallas. One of them lived in Arlington and he actually still thought he could. I told him next election try and go to a Dallas polling station and try voting for actual Dallas city stuff. See what happens. Then it finally hit him that he doesn't live in Dallas, but Arlington which is a completely different (and not that small) city. Just goes to show you though how not different some of the suburbs are from the city itself.
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