Which cities feel bigger than they are or smaller? (metro area, areas)

[bennyboo<3seattle<3]

bigger:seattle, san fransisco, denver, Minneapolis, Boston, Bellevue, Miami

smaller:LA, phoenix, San Antonio, fort worth, Portland(or), washington

[mattpresley]

[quote=desert sun;8606400]

Does Phoenix metro feel as large as Clevelands metro?
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I would hope so considering it in way bigger with a population of almost 4.3 Million and a land area of over 4000 square miles

[case44]

Originally Posted by shoe01

Lubbock, TX feels like it should be 500,000--it's about 260k.

That might be because there's a freeway loop around it. It automatically gives a small city the feel of a bigger one.

[bballniket]

I'd say that Seattle and San Francisco distinctly feel bigger than they are within city limits.

[sacramento916]

San Francisco's importance and it's urban feel is far disproportionate to its actual size in population or physical boundaries.

[west336]

Cleveland feels very big, especially if you are in the inner city or inner-ring suburbs. It was CLEARLY meant to be a huge city, before the downfall of the Rust Belt. It has quite an impressive "urban core" and it resembles much of Chicago and Detroit.

[imperialmog]

With St. Louis it varies depending on what direction you look at. Since there are some areas with continuous suburban development 40 miles away from downtown St. Louis while in another direction it can be rural 5 miles from downtown. A lot of that has to do with a state boundary and large floodplains that are mostly undeveloped. (I said mostly since one has the worlds largest stripmall in them)

[SeattleWANative]

I'm going to agree with Western Flavor L.A. feels huge, I drove around in L.A. for years and I still felt like I've only been in a small part of the whole city. San Francisco feels way smaller than it actually is because you go a few blocks and you keep seeing the same Victorian architecture and not really much else so it feels like all the same.

[CaliSon]

Originally Posted by SeattleWANative

I'm going to agree with Western Flavor L.A. feels huge, I drove around in L.A. for years and I still felt like I've only been in a small part of the whole city. San Francisco feels way smaller than it actually is because you go a few blocks and you keep seeing the same Victorian architecture and not really much else so it feels like all the same.

LOL what the heck does this have to do with anything when talking about a city feeling bigger or smaller?

[CaliSon]

To me Boston felt smaller because it only took like 20 mins to drive from one end of the city to another, LA feels large to me because wherever I go I always compare it and so far only NYC and Chicago (mainly the loop) have given me a bigger city feel, with that said metro wise LA feels the biggest however I have never really experienced the whole NY metro to judge it, I'm sure if I lived there for a while I would feel the NYC metro feels larger.