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Old Posted Nov 19, 2019, 4:44 PM
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Originally Posted by tdawg View Post
My husband is from Wilmington, Delaware and it's the first place that came to mind. It's definitely close to and in the orbit of Philadelphia but is a largish city on its own with a sizable skyline, important history, and sense of place independent from Philadelphia.
Yep. It has its own metropolitan division (which is kinda like an MSA within an MSA but only for certain MSAs of at least 2.5M that meet the criteria) of around 725K and pretty much anchors the whole state of Delaware.
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