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Old Posted Feb 4, 2023, 2:00 PM
Crawford Crawford is offline
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Fairfield is really an inner suburb. Yes, it's geographically more distant, but was settled earlier than the other outer suburbs, and has the fastest and most frequent train service. The coast was pretty fully developed by WW2.

As in most metros, the spatial expansion patterns weren't even, and this is especially true in older areas like the Northeast, with established pre-metropolitan towns and networks. Sprawl filled the existing gaps, moreso than pushing out from a central core. Greenwich, Stamford and other towns through New Haven are older than Philly, and were significant cities long before there was a Northeast Corridor.
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