Up until 10 years ago, the largest city I had lived in had 50-60k people. It wasn't really worth it to count a metro area: That was the hub for the small towns

Up until 10 years ago, the largest city I had lived in had 50-60k people. It wasn't really worth it to count a metro area: That was the hub for the small towns of the area, and honestly pretty normal where I was in the Midwest. Some had no taxis (and pre-uber) and in others, you couldn't count on a taxi to get you to work on time. Only 1 had busses outside of school busses (but all had school busses). Now, "big city" is 180-200k. I wouldn't know about where it ranks in the US, as the reason I went to a "big city" was because I moved out of the US.