• COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      Houston is too sprawled, even within Texas DFW has the bigger metropolitan population. It’s just that DFW has some lines drawn in it separating the cities while in Houston they’re all considered the same city.

      That being said culturally it’s definitely not DFW or Chicago. I think Miami is the clear 4th from its city size and unique culture, though I also can see the arguments for DC and SF.

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        5 days ago

        Same thing with a lot of ‘large’ cities in the US. The city seems absolutely huge, but in reality it’s just a part of the metro area around it. Makes me wonder how New York and LA got so big without being a collection of a dozen smaller towns, even though they both have lots of surrounding suburbs of course.