Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
• only the Bay Area contains a huge, gi-mongous body of water smack dab in its middle. No metro area has such a doughnut hole in its middle....in fact, the hole may be as large as the doughnut itself
Tampa Bay and New Orleans (Lake Pontchatrain) come to mind. New Orleans has a 20-mile causeway connecting to its Northshore suburbs.
Quote:
• San Francisco may well be the only major city in the US that has no suburbs. Sure, one could easily look at Hillsborough and realize it has a suburban relationship with SF. But there is no term called "suburban San Francisco" as well as there being no "San Francisco Area" or "SF metro".
SF definitely has suburbs. Not sure how you refer to them makes any sort of difference.
Quote:
• And that is because the Bay Area doesn't divide into city/suburb. Moreso than any other metro area, the Bay Area is a collection of subregions. Different names are used, but I might identify them as being San Francisco, The Peninsula, South Bay (Silicon Valley, San Jose), Oakland and the East Bay, Lamorinda,Marin, Wine Country
It defintiely does and is pretty well defined. Most metro areas have subregions, nothing unique about that.
Quote:
• Traffic has the least amount of directional flow in the Bay Area then elsewhere. We of course live in an era of reverse computing but the Bay Area is more built on multidirectional moves than anywhere else. Obviously no core-to-periphery dominating the movement of traffic. No east-west orientation for Dallas/Ft Worth traffic. Job centers abound in the Bay Area and you go every which way but loose (there is no loose...the roads are far, far too crowded for that)
Uh? Most people are either going to downtown SF or Silicon Valley suburbs.
Quote:
I could have written more
Please don't because you're really reaching with most of these lol.
There was some old sportscaster (was it Howard Cosell?) who always referred to them as the New Jersey Giants and the New Jersey Jets.
Shall I share the true tragedy of the New York Jets? I don't remember when this data was out there, but back when it was:
The New York Jets were the only NFL team that wasn't the most popular football team in every single county in the US. Maybe they should have stayed in Queens.
[quote=ryanthegoldengod;55989610] There was some old sportscaster (was it Howard Cosell?) who always referred to them as the New Jersey Giants and the New Jersey Jets.[/QUOTE]
Shall I share the true tragedy of the New York Jets? I don't remember when this data was out there, but back when it was:
The New York Jets were the only NFL team that wasn't the most popular football team in every single county in the US. Maybe they should have stayed in Queens.
What do you mean by that?
There have to be counties where one of the other 31 NFL teams is the most popular. Why is this a tragedy?
Did you mean to say that all the other teams but the Jets had fans in every county in the US?
Tampa also has the body of water in the middle and is usually referred to as the Tampa Bay area, and also has multiple major cities including St. Petersburg and Clearwater and stuff is also far flung.
The most interesting would probably be New Orleans since you can argue Lake Pontchartrain is a giant "donut" in the middle since the Northshore is now officially part of Greater New Orleans. New Orleans is bordered on the west by Metairie and Kenner, two inner suburbs that are almost as dense as the city, then past that its swampland that restricts development. You have the Westbank suburbs like Westwego, Harvey, and Gretna which are also very dense and heavily industrialized.
But across the lake you have St. Tammany Parish which is filled with Sunbelt-type low density developments and is suburbia galore. Slidell also has a very suburban feel, and now some people include Hammond and Ponchatoula as part of the New Orleans region too.
Charleston, WV can also be very interesting because its in a narrow river valley. You go 10 minutes north of downtown and you are in complete rural backwoods and hollers. You go directly east and you are also deep in the holler very quickly. But the suburbs stretch very far out to the west.
There are coal mines within 15 miles of Charleston city limits.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
