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It's because almost the entire City of Mesa is compact subdivisions on small lots. The lots in Atlanta are much larger, and Mesa has no neighborhoods like Buckhead with huge multi-acre estates. An apples to oranges comparison, at best.
have you ever been to mesa??
Its dense because the older sections are highly populated with recent mexican immigrants that have larger families. As well as half of West Mesa being populated with large apartment complex that fit a large amount of people. the subdivisions that you speak of are in the far east and southeastern parts of mesa, which is not as dense as you think.
Which Is The Biggest Suburb In The Entire United States ?
New Jersey.
I think that joke was done earlier. There does at least seem to be counties in New Jersey that aren't in the NYC or Philadelphia metros. Atlantic City might not even precisely be a suburb.
It looks like Long Island could almost seriously be deemed a suburb though and its population is only a million or so less than NJ.
I think that joke was done earlier. There does at least seem to be counties in New Jersey that aren't in the NYC or Philadelphia metros. Atlantic City might not even precisely be a suburb.
It looks like Long Island could almost seriously be deemed a suburb though and its population is only a million or so less than NJ.
Only if you count Brooklyn and Queens, but they are Boroughs of New York City and not independent like Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
What is San Jose a suburb of? San Francisco? Both cities have about the same population.
That doesn't mean anything.
The biggest city in the Philippines in a suburb of Manila.
New Jersey is a good choice.
I know there some parts that aren't a part of a metro...but I mean... It's basically cut down the middle. In Trenton you might carpool with your neighbor to the same train station... you commute to New York, and your neighbor literally might commute to Philly.
New Jersey is a giant suburb.
We have huge suburbs here too. They're all adjacent to each other (literally, they are a huge blob of suburbs, except Denton which is sort of it's own thing). There are 12 suburbs with a population of over 100,000...not including Dallas or Fort Worth.
There is Arlington around 400,000, Plano with around 300,000, Carrollton with 100,00, Richardson with 100,000, Irving with 200,000, Garland with 200,000, Denton with 100,000, Mckinney with 100,000, Frisco with 100,000, Grand Prairie with 200,000, Lewisville with 100,000, and Mesquite with 100,000.
One thing about Atlanta that you also see along the East Coast but I don't think it happens as much out in Texas or out West is some of Atlanta's suburbs are actually older than Atlanta (and Atlanta is no spring chicken having been around under a different names since 1837).
Decatur, Marietta, Lawrenceville, and Mc Donough are just the cities in the Atlanta Metro that I know are older than Atlanta but IDK there could be more. In fact the railroad town that would become Atlanta was founded in the first place because Decatur did not want the rail road to build through their town.
Many more of Atlanta's suburbs are over 150 years old dating back before the Civil War.
This is contrary to the belief many have that all these suburbs of Atlanta just recently sprang up as a result of Atlanta sprawl and have no life, history, town centers, etc. of their own because they are just spill over from Atlanta's growth.
I do believe the largest suburb in land area in America is Denver's Aurora which covers about the same amount of land and has about the same population as Atlanta Metro's Clayton county which has several suburbs including Mc Donough.
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