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Old 02-02-2020, 06:19 PM
 
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Connecticut:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Co...7!4d-73.087749

D/FW:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Co...7!4d-73.087749


D/FW is smaller than Connecticut.
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Old 02-02-2020, 06:34 PM
 
Location: Dallas area, Texas
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
The DFW metroplex encompasses 9,286 square miles (24,100 km2) of total area: 8,991 sq mi (23,290 km2) is land, while 295 sq mi (760 km2) is water, making it larger in area than the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas...orth_metroplex

According to Wikipedia, Connecticut encompasses 5,567 square miles, of which 4,849 sq mi is land and 698 sq mi is water.

Sorry, (not sorry) The Metroplex (all eleven counties) is larger than Connecticut.

You know that you can change the google maps size by using the plus and minus signs, right? Scale is your friend.

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Old 02-02-2020, 06:37 PM
 
Location: Born + raised SF Bay; Tyler, TX now WNY
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Connecticut’s just weird because it serves essentially as a suburb for some major metros. Houses stuffed between giants. DFW at least is its own thing. I don’t really know what CT is, I definitely know that DFW is a city. I don’t mean that as some indictment on CT, just that it’s a place I don’t have any relevant context for.
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Old 02-02-2020, 06:54 PM
 
Location: Frisco, TX
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It’s just a comparison. It doesn’t matter which one is 200 square miles larger and just semantics at that point.
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Old 02-02-2020, 06:57 PM
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas...orth_metroplex

According to Wikipedia, Connecticut encompasses 5,567 square miles, of which 4,849 sq mi is land and 698 sq mi is water.

Sorry, (not sorry) The Metroplex (all eleven counties) is larger than Connecticut.

You know that you can change the google maps size by using the plus and minus signs, right? Scale is your friend.
If one follows the links on a desktop or notebook browser, the locales are both to mutual scale. In fact the D/FW image was simply offset to the west from the Connecticut one. The observer will not necessarily see the same results if viewed on a smartphone or tablet app (e.g., an iPhone will want to fill the screen with either region if accessed via the provided links).
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Old 02-02-2020, 07:07 PM
 
Location: 78745
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It’s just a comparison. It doesn’t matter which one is 200 square miles larger and just semantics at that point.
You must admit, it is kind of a big deal when a metro area is larger than an entire state in both population and land area.
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Old 02-02-2020, 07:09 PM
 
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You must admit, it is kind of a big deal when a metro area is larger than an entire state in both population and land area.
Why?

This might be the dumbest thread ever posted. Who cares how big DFW is and/or how small CT is?
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Old 02-02-2020, 07:18 PM
 
Location: Dallas area, Texas
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Why?

This might be the dumbest thread ever posted. Who cares how big DFW is and/or how small CT is?
Some non-locals have no idea the sheer size of the area and think that commutes will be no big deal. No, living in Sherman is not a short drive to Balch Springs for work.
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Old 02-02-2020, 09:32 PM
 
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Anyone who compares the two has never been to both. It’s just idiotic in every way to compare them. You can’t cover the same distance in the same time in both places. CT is a mostly rural state. Even the “suburbs” there aren’t a thing like Texas. Every time I see that comparison on this board I cringe because it just sounds so out of context.
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Old 02-03-2020, 07:10 AM
 
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The reason people keep writing that comparison is because Yankees and Californians keep asking questions like "I have a new job in downtown Dallas and I want to buy a house with acreage, room to keep a pony, and great public schools, in a rural area with rolling hills and forests, but I don't want to pay more than $350,000, and I need my commute to be less than twenty minutes" - questions that could be answered by a simple look at the map. The point is that over an area the size of CT you basically have solid city and suburb without a lick of rurality (except down in the Trinity River bottom lands, where you don't want to live anyway), which is something that posts like I've parodied above show zero understanding of. It's a shorthand way to try to communicate just how spread out and urbanized the area is. The stereotypes of cattle grazing in sight of the towers of Downtown haven't applied in 60 years but the rest of the country is slow to realize it.

No saguaro cacti in Texas, either.
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