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Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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Originally Posted by jayp1188
As far as it's skyline goes, it looks similar to many other cities of the same size. But when I was there, there seemed to be a lot of people hanging out and walking around downtown, and there seemed to be quite a lot going on downtown. It was surprisingly busy for such a small city...it made it seem quite a big bigger than it actually is.
Wow, I forgot about this thread until someone just gave me a rep. You could be correct though, I dont believe I sent hardly any time downtown to judge. I was basing it off everything else I saw though.
What are the most "rural/small" feeling BIG cities and what are the most "urban" feeling small/mid-sized cities?
In other words, which cities with large city or metro population seem smaller or more rural than the listed population indicates...and what cities with smaller city/metro populations seem much more urban than their population would lead you to believe???
(When I say most "urban" small cities...I'm not talking about the ones on the outskirts of major cities....I mean stand alone cities that are the hubs of their own metro and CSA)
Just got back from Milwaukee. Would have assumed it was a city of 200-300K people, but it's actually around 600K. It felt tiny, like Pittsburgh.
Metro Houston looks and feels like its population of about six million.
Houston feels like the world's largest suburb. Houston has grabbed the title of a huge city via annexation . When you look at a place like the DC metro and realize that the physical space is smaller and the population density is higher, you realize what creative accounting can do. Houston is a small, dumpy city with some medium sized, dumpy suburbs, but they claim they're some sort of international player. What a joke!
Houston feels like the world's largest suburb. Houston has grabbed the title of a huge city via annexation . When you look at a place like the DC metro and realize that the physical space is smaller and the population density is higher, you realize what creative accounting can do. Houston is a small, dumpy city with some medium sized, dumpy suburbs, but they claim they're some sort of international player. What a joke!
It's gotten absolutely out of hand, lately. Oh, wait...that's normal here.
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