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Originally Posted by jbermingham123
Looking into the far future, I'd say California also has room for an additional alpha- city with San Diego, a solid beta city with Sac, and several beta- cities in the CV.
I also think CA will eventually produce 2 or 3 more million+ cities on the coast (if they can get their act together with development policy). Santa Maria, Salinas, and Eureka all have quite a bit of room to grow.. particularly Santa Maria. I could see Santa Maria becoming a metro area the size of Salt Lake City or even Portland in this century
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That won't happen, because GaWC is a joke.
According to GaWC, San Diego isn't important enough to surpass juggernauts with 300,000 people like *checks notes* Nicosia, Cyprus.
Also, Santa Maria is growing by 1,000 people per year. At that rate it won't even hit Portland's current population for 2,500 years. Considering California is rapidly losing demographic momentum due to high housing costs, I'd say the chances of Santa Maria becoming a metro of 3 million are extremely low.