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Originally Posted by JManc
I've been to 500k metro areas in Europe and Asia, they definitely don't feel bigger than an American metro 5x the size. Denser and older, sure.
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Yeah same here. I've been in 500k metros in Europe that felt like a backwater, even if it had a cute picture postcard downtown. In Asia 500k is basically a small town. You could walk across it in an hour. It's a very small and limiting "on the ground" experience, almost claustrophobic.
Definitely feels nothing like a modern American metro in the 2m+ range. Cities like Las Vegas, Austin and Sacramento can all feel huge and expansive in their own way. Totally different scale of city.