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Old 10-06-2012, 11:21 PM
 
Location: Savannah, GA
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How about Williston, ND?

The newly discovered oil fields out there are making that town boom like crazy.
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Old 10-07-2012, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Middletown, CT
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How about Williston, ND?

The newly discovered oil fields out there are making that town boom like crazy.
I agree. It's amazing how many people know about such a small town. Also, call me crazy, but Des Moines seems a lot bigger than it is to me.
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Old 10-07-2012, 07:24 PM
 
Location: NYC/D.C.
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I agree. It's amazing how many people know about such a small town. Also, call me crazy, but Des Moines seems a lot bigger than it is to me.
LOL. Its weird that i hear more about Des Moines than most major cities.
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Old 10-07-2012, 07:32 PM
 
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Rosemont IL. A suburb of OHare, more hotel rooms than people, a convention center, arena, theater. Many visitors probably unaware of its name.
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Old 10-07-2012, 08:27 PM
 
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Rosemont IL. A suburb of OHare, more hotel rooms than people, a convention center, arena, theater. Many visitors probably unaware of its name.
Unless you know about DePaul Basketball and their games at the Rosemont Horizon(now Allstate Arena).
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Old 10-09-2012, 03:07 AM
 
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I agree. It's amazing how many people know about such a small town. Also, call me crazy, but Des Moines seems a lot bigger than it is to me.
I second that. It's downtown is like as big as Portland's!
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Old 10-09-2012, 03:51 AM
 
Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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The college towns of Madison and Ann Arbor
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Old 10-10-2012, 02:04 AM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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Nashville has to be on this list. Music City, home to 24 institutions of higher education, headquarters to several denominations (some call it the Protestant Vatican), state capitol, home to 2 major league sports teams and all in a metro area that did not top 1 million until the 1990s, still only 1.5 million as of the last census.
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Old 10-10-2012, 09:18 AM
 
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Boulder, Colorado

-Major research university
-Several federal research labs
-Many high tech start ups
-Many outdoor recreational companies
-Outdoor publications and writers
-Leader in health food market
-Very early adoptor/innovator of: open space, smoking bans, solar energy etc
-Population 100,000
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Old 11-23-2012, 01:37 PM
 
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Id say Grand Rapids Michigan acts much more like a bigger metro than its actual population. Metro GR- Wyoming 775,000 CSA 1,325,000.
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