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Originally Posted by eschaton
The Trenton, NJ area is really kinda betwixt Philly and NYC. The Census defines it as part of the NYC CSA, but it's closer to Philly (around 30 miles, as opposed to 70-ish for NYC).
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that sounds similar to kenosha's situation.
kenosha lies 50 miles north of downtown chicago, but only 30 miles south of downtown milwaukee, yet it apparently sends (or at least sent) more commuters into chicagoland (it does have a metra commuter rail connection into chicago) than it sends into metro milwaukee, so the OMB gives it to chicagoland, much to the consternation of some cheeseheads who believe that kenosha county rightfully belongs to metro milwaukee due to its location just north of the cheddar curtain.
in both these cases, the much greater gravity of the larger city of the pair is able to overcome the distance imbalance by pulling in more commuters.
but as i've wondered out loud many times now on this forum, i'll be quite curious to see what impact WFH will have on commuter percentages (particularly those of far outlying counties >50 miles away) and how that might reshuffle the deck a bit of our current MSA/CSA definitions, and even if we might need to find some new metrics by which to define them.