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CSAs are meaningless. The difference between the Chicago MSA ~500k. It’s all Chicago land. Baltimore/Washington is not a real metro.
It depends on the CSA, for this comparison it is useless as Chicago is the sole major city in its CSA so it still murders DC, and DC-Baltimore is a combination of two cities that have their own metros. For cities like LA CSA is a more accurate measurement of the actual metro.
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I'm talking about CSA, which is over 9 million. To put it into perspective, Baltimore will be a mega city along with Chicago, LA and NYC.
In a funny kind of way...you're actually right.
In all seriousness though, we understand both DC and Baltimore and their can and do function independently. Without the other one each would exist and function. Locals really don't care not to be associative with the other core area.
YET, with that said you can't tell me there is a negative to two adjacent metros combining to form a larger purpose and region, that could "pose" as one. Both could benefit from the other more, and Baltimore definitely could get a real shot in the arm with something like a Maglev train/Hyperloop, and additional companies going to its metro after being priced out of metro DC.
As different as we see these two core areas, it's no physically larger than many other single city metro/regions of the nation.
In all seriousness though, we understand both DC and Baltimore and their can and do function independently. Without the other one each would exist and function. Locals really don't care not to be associative with the other core area.
YET, with that said you can't tell me there is a negative to two adjacent metros combining to form a larger purpose and region, that could "pose" as one. Both could benefit from the other more, and Baltimore definitely could get a real shot in the arm with something like a Maglev train/Hyperloop, and additional companies going to its metro after being priced out of metro DC.
As different as we see these two core areas, it's no physically larger than many other single city metro/regions of the nation.
It's still two different cities...you can't compare that to one.
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