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no, because philly is ny's back yard facing a different street and vice versa.
Actually Philly and NYC already meet the CSA requirements with Burlington County to Mercer County commuters at about 17% but that's already been talked about earlier in the thread. The NYC-Philly CSA would about be 30 million people. It still doesn't change the culture of Philly as "Philly will always be Philly" and I think the average person on the street could careless if Philly and New York City combined suburbs.
It would probably improve Philly if it became a suburb of New York.
Sorry, but I like Philly more than NYC and so do many people. NYC is too crowded and expensive. I don't want it to "join" NYC. Look at all the people leaving Manhattan and Brooklyn for here--the crowds and cost of living are much more feasible.
MSA? No. CSA? Maybe. Even if they both become part of a single CSA the cities will still have separate identities
yes agree technically the two already meet census census CSA requirements via burlington county NJ but the census has chosen to keep them seperate, probably always will. They close and overlap today but both are huge and very distinct metros at either ends. The cloest borders of the actual city limits are only 46 miles apart but retain disntictly different aspects
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Metropolitan means belonging to or typical of a large busy city. Does Philly rely on NYC? Philly is its own center with suburbs. Is the whole Boston to DC a mega-Metropolis? Perhaps or close? That also says New Jersey is just one big Suburb?
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