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What about cities/metros that cross country borders?
El Paso / Juarez is one that comes to mind. It’s Sid wealthy Juarez business owners put their family in El Paso for safety/schools. I suspect San Diego may be the same as I explored expiating in Rosario south of Tijuana as it’s just over an hour to sad Diego medical facilities assuming the border crossing is fast. Others?
I’m told El Paso acts and feels a lot larger as these cities are pretty cohesive which surprised me.
What about cities/metros that cross country borders?
El Paso / Juarez is one that comes to mind. It’s Sid wealthy Juarez business owners put their family in El Paso for safety/schools. I suspect San Diego may be the same as I explored expiating in Rosario south of Tijuana as it’s just over an hour to sad Diego medical facilities assuming the border crossing is fast. Others?
I’m told El Paso acts and feels a lot larger as these cities are pretty cohesive which surprised me.
Personally I don't really buy this. Crossing the border in 2023 is way too slow to get much meaningful connection. It's probably not actually any easier to get to Tijuana from SD than it is to get to LA.
I'm very familiar with El Paso and I don't think it feels bigger than it's metro pop at all. To me Albuquerque always felt bigger than El Paso.
SD also, if anything feels smaller than it's metro pop, not bigger.
Personally I don't really buy this. Crossing the border in 2023 is way too slow to get much meaningful connection. It's probably not actually any easier to get to Tijuana from SD than it is to get to LA.
I'm very familiar with El Paso and I don't think it feels bigger than it's metro pop at all. To me Albuquerque always felt bigger than El Paso.
SD also, if anything feels smaller than it's metro pop, not bigger.
Went to college at UCSD and frequently crossed the border between Tijuana and SD, the San Ysidro port of entry is one of the most trafficked land border crossings in the world. The crossing from San Diego into Tijuana is almost always relatively quick and when you come back if you have a fast pass or an RFID doc (i.e. passport card, border crossing card, etc.) you can access quicker lanes and wait times are generally pretty minimal. That being said, if you don't have access to the fast pass lanes waiting in the standard line at the border entry coming back into the US can be brutal (and definitely takes longer than going from SD to LA).
I feel the Front Range in Colorado is the most connected non metro area in the nation, 90% of Colorado's population lives in this region with big cities and small towns all connecting to each other.
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