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I think that the difficulty is that the metro areas for most cities in the top 10 extend for over 60 minutes, so we're looking for a decent sized city that hasn't been absorbed into the metro yet.
Columbia Missouri -- halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City. Surprisingly urban downtown and campus area for a city its size and independent from both the bigger cities.
I thought about Harrisburg and York in terms of their proximity to the Baltimore metro(20th in size) and both are a little over the hour and a half limit to Philadelphia(about an hour and 40-50 minutes).
Ann Arbor is another city that comes to mind, as it is in its own metro and Detroit I believe is the 12th or 13th biggest metro in the country. I also thought about Ypsilanti and East Lansing. However, the residential neighborhoods are largely SFH neighborhoods.
I did think of Middletown and Beacon also north of NYC in the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown metro, but again, finding similar residential neighborhoods like that in the OP may be a little tough. That is kind of unfortunate, as both actually have solid and culturally diverse school systems. Both have Metro North commuter rail access to NYC as well. Both are within an hour and a half drive. Pushing it, but would have the residential neighborhoods, Kingston an hour and 45 minutes from NYC may be another one.
I thought about Harrisburg and York in terms of their proximity to the Baltimore metro(20th in size) and both are a little over the hour and a half limit to Philadelphia(about an hour and 40-50 minutes).
Ann Arbor is another city that comes to mind, as it is in its own metro and Detroit I believe is the 12th or 13th biggest metro in the country. I also thought about Ypsilanti and East Lansing. However, the residential neighborhoods are largely SFH neighborhoods.
I did think of Middletown and Beacon also north of NYC in the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown metro, but again, finding similar residential neighborhoods like that in the OP may be a little tough. That is kind of unfortunate, as both actually have solid and culturally diverse school systems. Both have Metro North commuter rail access to NYC as well. Both are within an hour and a half drive. Pushing it, but would have the residential neighborhoods, Kingston an hour and 45 minutes from NYC may be another one.
Ann Arbor is a part of Detroit's CSA though, and definitely has more of a satellite city feel.
In the OP, it was suggested satellite cities and cities in the same CSA be excluded.
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