USA's 20 major cities/metros? (homes, island, county)

[Rwarky]

Originally Posted by WorldCapital

Say you were a marketing manager and your boss tells you the company wants to market their product in 20 major cities (metros) in the USA. By marketing, stuff like street teams and samples and billboards, etc, but they want to save money and only do 20 major cities. They hope that the surrounding cities find out about the product through the major cities.

So what would the 20 most important major cities/metros in the USA be for a company to advertise their product in? PS, they want to attract the 18-30 year olds who like to party.

So far I got:

NYC
Chicago
LA
Dallas
Philadelphia
Washington DC + Baltimore
SF + Oakland + San Jose + Berkeley + Santa Cruz
Miami + Fort Lauderdale
Atlanta + Athens
San Diego
Las Vegas
Minneapolis + St-Paul
Denver
Boston + Providence
Phoenix + Tempe + Glendale
Austin
Tampa + St-Petersburg
Seattle + Tacoma
St-Louis
Portland

I thought about Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, Charlotte, Virginia Beach+Norfolk, Raleigh... but I dont know much about them.

Wow, Phoenix is on this list??? I'd rather have an elephant tap dance on my forehead than live in anywhere near that city.

[Red.Apple]

Montreal, Quebec
Miami/South Beach, Florida

[costello_musicman]

Guys,

Remember Cleveland-Akron still has 2.9 million people.

Much larger than Columbus, Portland, Austin, etc.

I would also include Cincinnati in the top 20 as well.

And where's Detroit on people's list.

[costello_musicman]

Originally Posted by rogead

In rough geographic order:

Boston
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Charlotte
Miami
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Minneapolis
St Louis
Dallas
Houston
Phoenix
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle

Good list.

[jd433]

Originally Posted by rogead

In rough geographic order:

Boston
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Charlotte
Miami
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Minneapolis
St Louis
Dallas
Houston
Phoenix
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle

Cleveland, Pittsburg and St Louis are all questionable here. Maybe Tampa Bay and San Diego could switch them out?

[costello_musicman]

Here are the top 20 CSA's, which generally show a better picture about a city's importance to it's region:

Rank--Combined Statistical Area--2010 Pop--2000--Pop Change

1 New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA 22,085,649 21,361,797 +3.39%
2 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA 17,877,006 16,373,645 +9.18%
3 Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA 9,686,021 9,312,255 +4.01%
4 Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA 8,572,971 7,572,647 +13.21%
5 Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH CSA 7,559,060 7,298,695 +3.57%
6 San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 7,468,390 7,092,596 +5.30%
7 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CSA 6,731,317 5,487,956 +22.66%
8 Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA 6,533,683 6,207,223 +5.26%
9 Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX CSA 6,051,363 4,815,122 +25.67%
10 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA 5,618,431 4,548,344 +23.53%
11 Detroit-Warren-Flint, MI CSA 5,218,852 5,357,538 −2.59%
12 Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, WA CSA 4,199,312 3,707,144 +13.28%
13 Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA 3,615,902 3,271,888 +10.51%
14 Denver-Aurora-Boulder, CO CSA 3,090,874 2,629,980 +17.52%
15 Cleveland-Akron-Elyria, OH CSA 2,881,937 2,945,831 −2.17%
16 St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL CSA 2,878,255 2,754,328 +4.50%
17 Orlando-Deltona-Daytona Beach, FL CSA 2,818,120 2,191,081 +28.62%
18 Sacramento–Arden Arcade–Yuba City, CA-NV CSA 2,461,780 2,069,298 +18.97%
19 Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA 2,447,393 2,525,730 −3.10%
20 Charlotte-Gastonia-Salisbury, NC-SC CSA 2,402,623 1,897,034 +26.65%

[Davy-040]

If i could only pick 5 cities:
Los Angeles - Houston - Chicago - Miami - New York City

If i could only pick 10 cities:
Seattle - San Francisco - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Houston - Chicago - Atlanta - Miami - Washington D.C. - New York City

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by Davy-040

WEST:

New Orleans

EAST:
Minneapolis

Not picking at your choices but how did you come up with these two
Isn't both along the same or similar latitude?

Maybe even NOLA being a little east of Minneapolis?

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

Not picking at your choices but how did you come up with these two
Isn't both along the same or similar latitude?

Maybe even NOLA being a little east of Minneapolis?

The Mississippi River is what usually constitutes east and west. (The Hornets are in the Western conference)

[Davy-040]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

Not picking at your choices but how did you come up with these two
Isn't both along the same or similar latitude?

Maybe even NOLA being a little east of Minneapolis?

Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas & Louisiana is the border between West & East US imo.

I just wanted 10 cities on each side and i think Minneapolis looks/feels more East than New Orleans.