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Even then its hard to compare to europe because US metros are so much larger in population and size. Oslo has a smaller population than Columbus, Ohio which isn
by kjkjadksj 3y ago
Even then its hard to compare to europe because US metros are so much larger in population and size. Oslo has a smaller population than Columbus, Ohio which isn’t even a large or very significant city. It ends up being an apples to oranges comparison unless you subset an area of the US that has a similar population density and demography as a similarly sized area in Europe, and no one does that because that means splitting metros into weird pieces that people find harder to think about than “city x vs city y.”
- bluejekyll 3y agoThe reason I think Metros is more important than either city v city, or State v State, is that many metros can cross state lines, and may include multiple cities. The Bay Area is a good example of the latter with Oakland and San Francisco being in the same metro area. It’s the metro where things like public transit become valuable options, or charging infrastructure for commutes is important, etc.
- audunw 3y agoYou can definitely find a similar metropolitan areas to Oslo in the US. I find Portland to be quite similar. So why don’t they have a similar adoption rate? I don’t see how the “but USA is bigger” means that ALL of USA is completely off the hook.