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Columbia is not on par with Hartford or new haven and many other places like someone. New haven has a metro line. Public transportation is very good with buses that run frequently people walking everywhere . I know being close to nyc had alot to do with it because they pick up on that but I lived there and lived in Columbia for a short time so know the difference
Wilmington is a geographically small city (only 17 square miles, 7 of which are water). About a third of unincorporated New Castle County carries Wilmington zip codes, however, making it confusing to those unfamiliar with the area. As Delaware's only real city, Wilmington, the city, has a population of just over 70,000. This is deceiving, however, because Wilmington anchors New Castle County, with a population of over 550,000. The Greater Wilmington-Newark area supports over 300,000 jobs and attracts commuters from nearby Kent County, DE, Cecil County, MD, Chester and Delaware Counties in PA, and Salem County, NJ. As such, the metro serves as the economic engine of a region easily pushing 1 million in population. If Wilmington stood alone as an MSA, it would be comparable to a city the size of Tucson. (Given its proximity to Philadelphia only 30 miles away, Wilmington/New Castle County is part of the Philly MSA.)
Columbia is not on par with Hartford or new haven and many other places like someone. New haven has a metro line. Public transportation is very good with buses that run frequently people walking everywhere . I know being close to nyc had alot to do with it because they pick up on that but I lived there and lived in Columbia for a short time so know the difference
I think that's a bit debatable as it's not quite apples to oranges, but Columbia feels the size that it actually is, more or less.
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Wilmington is a geographically small city (only 17 square miles, 7 of which are water). About a third of unincorporated New Castle County carries Wilmington zip codes, however, making it confusing to those unfamiliar with the area. As Delaware's only real city, Wilmington, the city, has a population of just over 70,000. This is deceiving, however, because Wilmington anchors New Castle County, with a population of over 550,000. The Greater Wilmington-Newark area supports over 300,000 jobs and attracts commuters from nearby Kent County, DE, Cecil County, MD, Chester and Delaware Counties in PA, and Salem County, NJ. As such, the metro serves as the economic engine of a region easily pushing 1 million in population. If Wilmington stood alone as an MSA, it would be comparable to a city the size of Tucson. (Given its proximity to Philadelphia only 30 miles away, Wilmington/New Castle County is part of the Philly MSA.)
And it would certainly have a larger GDP than Tucson, whose metro area has a GDP of $37 billion. The state of Delaware's GDP is $71 billion, of which Wilmington's metro generates a large portion of that.
I think the population figures of Salt Lake City are kind of misleading. The population of the city proper is only around 190,000, which is not a whole lot different from when I was a kid 60 years ago. The metro area (and I'm not talking about the Wasatch Front, which includes Ogden and Provo) is now close to 1.2 million. In many areas, you'll walk across a street and go from being within the actual city limits to being outside of them. For this reason, the city doesn't feel like a 190,000-person city, even though technically it is.
Hartford - 17.4 sq miles
Providence 18 sq miles
Lowell - 14 sq miles
New Haven - 18.7 sq miles
So they'll seem bigger
Yes. The population is cramed into a small area compared to south cities .. only a couple of south cities that have that same layout
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