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Originally Posted by Crawford
No, they don't. The business rules are posted on the Census website. It's county-based commuter flows.
Silicon Valley is a separate MSA from SF bc it has a huge job base and housing affordability issues. Fairfield County is basically a less extreme version of the same issue. A geography with an imbalance between jobs and housing will be more likely to be a separate MSA.
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county-based is arbitrary separation.. They should really used urbanized connectivity patterns to come up metropolitan statistics.