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My former hometown of Atlantic City has movie by Louis Malle named after it, it must be important.
Sacramento, California is on the large end of this scale--about 500,000 in the city and 2,000,000 in the metro area--but as the capital of California it is perforce important. Davis, which is just down the road from Sacramento is important as the home of the country's leading agricultural-technical universities, and as one of America's most bike friendly communities, with a high percentage of bike commuters.
I would question the Silicon Valley communities--Cupertino, Menlo Park, Palo Alto etc. They're mostly in Santa Clara County which has a population of 1.8 million, which in turn is part of the San Francisco Bay Area, which has over 7 million.
Obviously, places like Pierre SD, Montpelier VT, Frankfort KY, Helena MT, Carson City NV, Jefferson City MO, Olympia WA, which are state capitals, with under 50,000. And even Tallahassee, Springfield and Albany, which are small capitals of major, powerful states
As i've said many times, the city limits population never if ever matters in the United states. Its always about the metro. St.Louis has only 320,000 residents but the metro area is 2.8 million people and has about 15 fortune 500's and a economy of 128 billion dollars.
Not to mention most rust belt cities are like st.louis in this manor (low city population compared to the metro population) examples would be cleveland, cincinnati, minneapolis-st.paul, detroit and Pittsburgh. Most people see cities as the picture when the suburbs are the bigger picture and the city is just the center.
Greenwich Connecticut (home to huge % of investment bankers)
(South/East) Hamptons (where the big boys/gals make their big deals from May to Sept)
Providence RI
Lake George (gateway to Adirondacks)
Portland (Maine)
Sturgis ND (biggest bike rally)
Sarasota Springs? Wrong century
Ithaca
West Point
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