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Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor
Yeah I guess it would be CSA.
Either way, when measuring CSA's it makes Vancouver seem puny even compared with portland.
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I don't know about puny...
Metro Vancouver is larger than Portland's MSA (2.2 million), and if Vancouver were measured using CSA methodology, they would pretty well be the same size (Portland CSA is about 2.9 million).
Makes sense because both Portland and Vancouver city proper are about 600k, and their metro areas are similar in size.
Despite similar sizes, Vancouver IMO feels quite a bit bigger due to being somewhat more dense and having a number of large urban centres (Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, etc) whereas Portland seems more centralized around the CBD.
edit: I have no idea why people fret about the numbers... it doesn't matter whether a city is measured as 1 million or 1.4 million or whatever, the methodology doesn't change reality. There are plenty of cities around a million in Europe that feel much larger than a comparable city in North America.