Americans: do you live in a top ten metro area or not

Apparently not.

I hope Will Smith comes and starts repping for Miami!

Boston-Worcester-Manchester

isn't Woo-stah like an hour outside of Boston??????????

Manchester is in a completely different state!

yeah WTF?????

where is the bay?

this poll doesn't even factor in pizza

hey i am not the measuring the metro area guy ok youll hav to talk to wikipedia

I love that they include Rhode Island in there but neglect to mention Providence, lolololol.

bay is 13th btw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas

I'm scared that I'll eventually live in the DFW metroplex, even though it's six hours away.

i don't know why DFW is even there, no one lives there

lol @ PP

It's totally arbitrary to exclude San Jose from the Bay Area as a metropolitan area and were it included, we'd be in the top ten, Alex. In any case, seing as this originally stems from movie releases, I'd say we're better off than areas even more populated than us, anyway, so who cares?

which of these cities do u think will be the 1st to be inhabited entirely by robots???? my guess is boston

having just spent the weekend in "dc" i have a really hard time thinking of alexandria as part of dc. it's its own city...

agreed that san jose should be included w/the bay

i have never heard of "sugar land" but it sounds fun

these are not cities tho t - theyre metro areas - just groupings of people

otm, I was about to post that. considering how many people work in the south bay and live elsewhere in the bay area, it's ridiculous to define it as a separate metro area.

xpost to mw

neither member of metro area is from a metro area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Area

i have never heard of "sugar land" but it sounds fun

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lol

which of these cities do u think will be the 1st to be inhabited entirely by robots???? my guess is boston

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i think probably philadelphia

There were some ruffled feathers when it happened, but some time ago San Francisco was determined by the US Post Service to be part of the greater San Jose metro area or something to that effect.

the only reason some of us have heard of sugarland is tom delay

http://i44.tinypic.com/2v0zepv.jpg

http://extractsfromthenoise.blogspot.com/2008/11/american-cities-populationarea-graph.html

that list is based on city boundaries, not MSAs or core cities, either of which would make more sense

also ftr i live in square-pattern aura easily one of the TOP 10 metro areas

lol bnw

OH MY GOSH MY WISH CAME TRUE

also clearly all the 'people' in that video are robots

hmm... apparently I've spent the past 20 years in either the 1 or 2 DMA for either pop size or pop density

isn't a lot of current population of southern NH basically.. former massholes who don't want to pay taxes?

a lot of them even commute to boston for work

meaning they pay taxes on wages earned in MA and get slammed with high property taxes on their homes in NH

ownd by taxsachusetts

Hells yeah (unless Coral Gables isn't technically "Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL MSA South Florida").

according to my primitive calculations, about a quarter of the american population lives in the top 10 MSAs.

That list of city densities is horrifying. You shouldn't even be able to claim you're a city w/out a density of like 2,000 pop per mile.

according to my primitive calculations, about a quarter of the american population lives in the top 10 MSAs.

the MSAs of the cities on my film lists represent about 40% of the population

Far from the majority still.

xp Hi Dere: I think Providence is excluded by the same logic that separates SF and San Jose into separate areas.

Providence and San Jose are considered separate MSAs because they have separate cores, but both are included in the larger CMSAs

ur mom has a separate core.

I assumed they were just counting Providence as part of the Boston metro area. I mean...it's on the commuter rail, right?

Metro Area number 5 includes Salem County, NJ with a whopping population density of 189 people per sq mile

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kind of weird to me that Philly fits into that list twice, in some weird way...

anyway, i live in the bay now, but i ain't no tony bennett, my heart is in ny.

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I live in #1 metro area Austin-Pflugerville-Round Rock, TX. Suck it, lesser metro areas. I find you bucolic!