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Originally Posted by iheartthed
If 3% of the NY MSA was traveling to Philadelphia's metro, that would be hundreds of thousands of people. It's definitely not 3% of the NY metro area traveling to Philadelphia, but that wasn't my point. My point is that there is a high degree of inter-metro commuting from the border counties between the NY and Phila. metros. According to this, over 6% of Bucks County, PA commuters, a core Phila. MSA county, went to Mercer County, NJ for work around 2010. Mercer County was, by far, the third most traveled destination for Bucks County commuters (not a surprise since they border each other) after Montgomery County and Philadelphia County.
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Few years ago, Brazilian Statistical Office decided to emulate US Census Bureau and worked with a “scientific” definition. Previously, metro areas were a mere random and symbolic organizations defined by state assemblies.
Anyway, aside the relative cut, they came up with an absolute number criteria (over +10,000 people in both directions). The US Census Bureau, however, doesn’t have this shortcut. And even down here, when Brazilian Office found out Santos, Jundiaí and even Campinas had almost 40,000 people each of commute with São Paulo, they simply ignored on the official publication and decided to keep them separated just because. Otherwise, SP Macrometropole would be simply São Paulo metro area with 33 million inh.