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In the US almost all residential areas count as cities. For example there are tens of cities in just the Bay Area alone.
by chrisseaton 5y ago
In the US almost all residential areas count as cities. For example there are tens of cities in just the Bay Area alone.
- noduerme 5y agoRight... we call these little suburbs "cities". City of Palo Alto. City of Berkeley. But we also pretty much consider the Bay Area as one big city, or maybe 3 if we're old school. If you say "Bay Area" anywhere, everyone knows you mean that giant beard that runs all over the bay.
- jeffbee 5y agoLol Berkeley is a suburb? It contains 120k people in only 10 square miles. It is twice as densely settled as San Jose.
- refurb 5y agoAgreed, but that’s more a legal definition of a city. What most people think of as “living in a city” they don’t think of places like Belmont.
- perl4ever 5y agoThe US is not California. Have you ever been to New Jersey or New York?
- chrisseaton 5y agoFor example the New Jersey has 52 cities - in a state with a population of just 8.8 million, so each 'city' only has on average 170k people - and that's if they all lived in a city! Many have populations in the low four-figures.
- perl4ever 5y agoI'm not an expert on New Jersey, but there are signs everywhere for "Twps" which I guess are "townships". I'm guessing probably a lot of people live in them. In New York State, a "town" seems to be not exactly a town, like a stereotypical "small town". I've lived here most of my life and never really realized, but according to Wikipedia, a "town" in NY is more or less the equivalent to a "township" and within it are "villages". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York_(state) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Ne... "every piece of land in the State is part of a city or town, which, with the exception of the city of Geneva, is part of one and only one county. Not every piece is in a village or city. A village is part of a town; cities are not part of towns, but have the powers of towns. A village can be a part of more than one town. A village cannot be part of a city." So more like a division of a county that's not part of a city than an actual town. And where this is going, is that I think this is where a lot of people live, rather than cities per se. An administrative division, where a lot of people live, that's neither a city nor a village, but has water and sewer and so on, sounds to me like almost a definition of suburbs.