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Old Posted Feb 8, 2019, 5:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Crawford View Post
Yeah I get that SJ is technically a "big city" but my point is that it isn't, really. It's part of the larger Bay Area, and the local "big city" is 50 miles north.

It would be like if you combined all of Long Island into a municpality, and then wondered why this "big city" of nearly 3 million doesn't have a "big downtown skyline". Because it isn't really a "big city".
Long Island (even sans Brooklyn/ Queens) is huge in area compared to San Jose. The population of Chicago in an area 2x the size of Houston. Now if Hempstead were an actual city as opposed to a town, that too would be considered a 'big city'; the second largest in NYS after NYC itself.
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