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Originally Posted by KodeBlue
I'd say Raleigh-Durham and The Bay Area are more integrated than Baltimore and DC. Both regions are more culturally similar, share the same media, hell the 49ers play literally 2000ft outside of San Jose. Raleigh-Durham city limits actually border each other.
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As OP, I see your point. Here was my thinking in making my list:
INCLUDED
• San Francisco-Oakland is an age old link, part of the same metro area in parts of three different centuries. San Jose may not have been officially designated as the
Bay Area, but always has been considered part of it. The difference from then and now: San Jose and the South Bay were backwaters in comparison to SF/E Bay...they are backwaters no more. If places on The Peninsula like Palo Alto were considered suburban SF & were more oriented towards it than towards San Jose, then it would be hard to argue that San Jose has always been part of the Bay Area. And hasn't the Cal-Stanford rivalry and their Big Game been because they are the two Bay Area schools?
• to go from Minneapolis to St. Paul, you don't even have to cross the Mississippi; in many places you just have to cross a street. The
Twin Cities are called the Twin Cities for a reason
• Unlike Mpls and StP, there is a hunk of real estate between Dallas and Ft. Worth. But
D/FW has been "a thing" for a heckuva long time, far longer than there has been an airport called DFW.
• It isn't the miniscule distance between
Baltimore and Washington that gives them separate identity: it's their history and their locations. Two of the 5 cities of the Northeast Corridor, their development throughout the vast part of their respective histories has been at places that are near by but completely different metro areas. And for much of that history, it wasn't solid development between the two cities. They were separate. Add to that, they are in the northeast and in the tight confines of the northeast, one mile there may well be equal to a good ten miles elsewhere.
NOT INCLUDED
• Yes, the
Research Triangle has grown enormously, but neither Durham or Raleigh are classified as "large cities". That was the reason I excluded them...and there are a lot of cities of that size that are adjacent across the nation. Based on their size, Raleigh and Durham, I wold think, have much more in common with Chapel Hill than they do with Houston or Atlanta. The realitively short time since the trio began its rise and the fact than none of them is a major city is the reason for my exclusion.
• And two a previous forumer,
Providence is a decent sized city, but really basically decent sized, city and metro area. There are five major cities in the northeast corridor and none of them are called Providence, New Haven, Newark or Atlantic City....which is not a knock on any of them
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