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top 4 as a poster said are dc, la, chicago, nyc in no particular order. behind that in the 5-8 range are boston/sf/houston/philly, again in no particular order ... then you have a drop off and get cities like atl, dallas, miami, seattle.
top 4 as a poster said are dc, la, chicago, nyc in no particular order. behind that in the 5-8 range are boston/sf/houston/philly, again in no particular order ... then you have a drop off and get cities like atl, dallas, miami, seattle.
I've always paired the two together. When I think of San Francisco, I think "Bay Area", which San Jose is apart of. San Jose just doesn't get as much press as SF.
I love how your all ignoring San Jose; Which is the reasons why San Francisco is even in this debate. You take out San Jose, than San Francisco falls.
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san jose would be insignificant w/o stanford, menlo park, sand hill road, etc. more like it.
Agreed, but I'd also throw in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and Cupertino in there as well. San Jose is far from what makes up Silicon Valley by itself, its just the largest city there. But the surrounding cities are just as important.
As for SF, taking away SJ would make this region less important in tech jobs and innovations, and things of that nature. But that's only a fraction of what there is out here and there are plenty more areas that are very important like Oakland, Berkeley, Marin County, Napa, Sonoma, etc. SF proper is more like the central downtown for the Bay Area. It may be the most key component of this region, but it is only that and all the rest surrounding it deserves to be included when looking at it. If SF were taken away, this region would fall significantly as well.
The weirdest thing to me is when people try to split SF and SJ into two different metros when the Bay is obviously one contiguous metro region, with SJ making up the southern portion. Like it or not, we're all interconnected.
Agreed, but I'd also throw in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and Cupertino in there as well. San Jose is far from what makes up Silicon Valley by itself, its just the largest city there. But the surrounding cities are just as important.
As for SF, taking away SJ would make this region less important in tech jobs and innovations, and things of that nature. But that's only a fraction of what there is out here and there are plenty more areas that are very important like Oakland, Berkeley, Marin County, Napa, Sonoma, etc. SF proper is more like the central downtown for the Bay Area. It may be the most key component of this region, but it is only that and all the rest surrounding it deserves to be included when looking at it. If SF were taken away, this region would fall significantly as well.
The weirdest thing to me is when people try to split SF and SJ into two different metros when the Bay is obviously one contiguous metro region, with SJ making up the southern portion. Like it or not, we're all interconnected.
Yeah the others are definitely, but the list is pretty long.
Definitely...there is really no break around the bay going down both sides... Would it make a difference if cities like SF and Boston just started annexing places like Chicago and Houston making new political boundaries? Not really...still significant even though the city limits are much smaller.
SF is about 48square miles, Houston is 600... now which feels like you are in the bigger city... :/ I bet most people would say SF.
It is not as if these smaller city limit places have a Berlin wall type structure around them.
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