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"See My Blog Entries for my Top 500 Most Important USA Cities"
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Yes the OP should be Jackson, MS not Jackson, ME.
Few others:
Lakeland 31,405
Virginia Beach 30,088
Boca Raton 18,312
Pflugerville, TX 14,333
Naples, FL 13,236
Lake Tahoe 12,120
Cypress, TX 11,407
Silver Spring, MD 10,573
Aurora, CO 10,518
Cedar Park, TX 9,351
Destin, FL 9,068
Ames, IA 8,891
Redding, CA 6,442
Bowling Green, KY 5,792
Tupelo, MS 4,197
Paducah, KY 3,367
Jackson Michigan 2,835
Rome, GA 2,602
Dalton, GA 2,235
Reading, PA 1,676
How is Boston so high? Why isnt NY higher? Also, Atlanta is impressive?
Because people in Boston care about local news and politics to sort of an extreme level. That's why we kinda dominate this forum and any other forum like it (relative to our population). People in Boston are way more engaged in these types of debates than really anywhere else that I know of.
The Twin Cities subreddit has another 129k followers
On that note, the Triangle has 69000 followers.
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Originally Posted by dbcook1
Yeah, just checking it looks like the reported numbers on this are for Durham, Canada. The subreddit for Durham, NC is r/bullcity which has 42,450 members.
Because people in Boston care about local news and politics to sort of an extreme level. That's why we kinda dominate this forum and any other forum like it (relative to our population). People in Boston are way more engaged in these types of debates than really anywhere else that I know of.
Thats a very good thing.
And yeah, there are an oddly high proportion of Bostonians on this forum, reddit and my aviation forum. For example, there are 27 people from New England in a closed global aviation thread im apart of. Onoy 10 from NY and 6 from California.
Its a running joke in an aviation discord im apart of, Boston & England jury duty.
I'm surprised Chicago is only 5th and not 3rd place, behind Boston and Seattle. Tulsa is also barely ahead of Oklahoma City, which is slightly surprising since I thought the OKC area had very slightly more population?
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Originally Posted by thedirtypirate
I always imagined there was some correlation to how many college students lived in each place vs. the number of followers given the typical demographic of a reddit user. Though, Reddit has grown a bit to capture more demographics than it use to/
Traditionally, I've viewed Reddit as the biggest among those in their 20s and 30s. Although it is starting to slowly grow in usage, among those older and nontraditional to using that site. For example when I looked on the sub askoldpeople, there were A LOT more older users than I realized exist on that particular sub. Though Reddit still does lean towards that younger teens/20s/30s demographic.
I guess that explains why certain cities like Las Vegas might be slightly not as big, as some other subs. Although to me, I was surprised San Diego was 15th. To me for whatever reason, thought SD would be like a few ranking positions lower.
Hipsters and yuppie tech workers use reddit to find out which places are "cool, up and coming" to move to or boast about all the time, so the cities that have the highest amount of reddit users are the cities being flooded by these types irl
Because people in Boston care about local news and politics to sort of an extreme level. That's why we kinda dominate this forum and any other forum like it (relative to our population). People in Boston are way more engaged in these types of debates than really anywhere else that I know of.
Like someone mentioned upthread, having a lot of students and recent grads probably helps too. I wouldn't be surprised if the "Reddit users per capita" is higher in the Boston area than in other metros around the country.
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