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Originally Posted by urbanenthusiastfromKC
Also Lawrence, Kansas is also on my list for small cities. Also cities between 50k-100k MSA I like to call micro-cities. Anything below that population I consider a town.
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1. If I'm not mistaken, the Census Bureau calls metros of that latter class "micropolitan statistical areas" (abbreviation: µSA, often not used because getting the Greek lowercase omicron is more difficult on a PC or Chromebook than on a Mac). Atchison, Kan. (Doniphan County) and Warrensburg, Mo. (Johnson County MO), both part of the Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS CSA, are two examples of µSAs near you. Lawrence (Douglas County) is not yet part of the Kansas City CSA because, as was the case for Leavenworth County in the MSA itself for many years, most of its residents work in the county at its largest employer and too few of them commute to adjacent counties in the CSA, and few workers from the CSA commute to jobs in it.
2. I'm with you on Lawrence, which also belongs to the set "cool Midwestern college towns," a collection that includes Ann Arbor, Mich.; Iowa City, Iowa; and kinda-sorta Madison, Wis., and Lincoln, Neb. ("Kinda-sorta" for those last two because they are also their respective states' capitals. They also have populations well above 100k, as does Columbia, Mo., another borderline member of the group along with Champaign-Urbana, Ill.)
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Edited to add: Your posting handle could also describe me. Except I'm "from" Kansas City in the sense of having grown up there. I haven't lived there since 1976, but like every other KC expat I've met on the East Coast, I love the place like you wouldn't believe.