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I moved to Minneapolis in the '80s when its MSA population was a little under 2.5 million. Watching it grow since then it feels like something happened at around or a bit above the 3 million mark where it started to feel much more like a big city. It definitely has gone up a level in its urbanism, its amenities and its big city feel over the time I have lived here.
With that in mind I would put the threshold for major city at 3 million.
I never considered Las Vegas to really be a major city. Sure, it's a big city, but when you think about it, other than gambling, what really is the major industry there?
If you think gambling is the only major industry in Las Vegas then you know even less about Las Vegas than the average American.
Jacksonville is thrown on here a lot. It's the biggest city that gets thrown under the radar by most Americans. It's city population makes it big but it's metro population is pretty small given how most people in Jacksonville area live in Jax proper.
I'm going to go by the standard of most (or least) "impactful" in relation to size and population.
Under that standard, the "most impactful" might be Cincinnati; it has a relatively small population, but a large impact (and a long one over time) due to its location.
At the opposite pole, I'd suggest Indianapolis (a/k/a "Indy-no-place").
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With major-league representation in two of the four big U.S. sports, it's pretty hard to argue against Buffalo as a major city.
Irrelevant. Those are legacy teams from a time when Buffalo was much larger and had greater influence. If the 4 leagues were all handing out franchises from scratch today, Buffalo wouldn't sniff one team. Leagues don't like moving legacy teams. That is the only reason Buffalo still has teams. It's actually kind of ridiculous that a metro as small as Buffalo still has two teams, when there are much larger cities with one or zero franchises.
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