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Actually regarding Miami, it's not above 500,000 by itself.
Miami: 463,347 @ 35.87 m2 or 12,917 ppl/m2. Adding Miami Beach to the east and Hialeah to the northwest of the city totals 795,327 @ 64.95 m2 or 12,245 ppl/m2.
I can cherry pick some other small & dense communities to tweak that total and density, but this provides a pretty good idea.
yep,
i didn't have the breakdown but it's precisely why i included it in the >500,000 group.
Because it doesn't feel like it belongs in TN. Feels, runs,---and even looks---like it belongs in Mississippi, which makes it feel MUCH slower and smaller.
Very hard to classify Baton Rouge which is a major city but feels like a large suburb and doesn't have many truly urban neighborhoods. Downtown Charleston WV where I used to live has a more compact nightlife than downtown BR. This area has a lot of offerings and diversions but they're very spread out across the area. The area around LSU definitely has a charming college town feel but it feels more like Charlottesville or Chapel Hill in its urbanity vs a true urban campus like Tulane in NO or Georgetown in Washington DC.
Also, the ghettos of North Baton Rouge look and feel more like Ferguson, Missouri than Baltimore/Detroit/Chicago's ghettos. There's also open farmland and undeveloped forests inside BR corporate limits. But this is the heart of a metro area of 800,000 people.
Very much agreed. The Livestock Arena, which is only a mile or two from downtown, feels like a very rural thing. There are also a lot of people with real pickup trucks (not like Ford F150s) and many vehicles had hunting/fishing/gun bumper stickers. I had many friends there who owned guns and there was even a guy in my building who I saw carrying an AR-15 once.
Very much agreed. The Livestock Arena, which is only a mile or two from downtown, feels like a very rural thing. There are also a lot of people with real pickup trucks (not like Ford F150s) and many vehicles had hunting/fishing/gun bumper stickers. I had many friends there who owned guns and there was even a guy in my building who I saw carrying an AR-15 once.
I think cities/metros that seem bigger than they really are, are cities/metros that are somewhat isolated from other metros and cater to an entire region in addition to their own city/metro and are the biggest city for hundreds of miles around, such as Fargo, Ft. Wayne, Evansville, Spokane, Boise, Salt Lake City, Grand Junction, Rapid City.
Because it doesn't feel like it belongs in TN. Feels, runs,---and even looks---like it belongs in Mississippi, which makes it feel MUCH slower and smaller.
I disagree and i doubt you've ever been to Greenville, Clarksdale, Greenwood. Memphis feels like it's own city in TN.
Rural feeling big cities: Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, Nashville
Big city feel in smaller cities: ? ? ? ?
I was best man at a high line wedding in Dallas, and it was quite a shindig. But the Texans were just as common as dirt. They can be high society and still have a best friend that works at the local horse barn. I liked that.
Nashville can be the same way, especially with so many movie stars and music stars living in incredibly plush surroundings with acreage.
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