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The 17th largest city in the US is mid-sized?
by citizenkeen 2y ago
The 17th largest city in the US is mid-sized?
- jeffbee 2y agoSan Jose has this problem where instead of acting like a top 20 city they act like Lubbock.
- presentation 2y agoFrom my perspective living in Asia I’d place it on par with a small rural village
- rahimnathwani 2y agoAfter I moved to Beijing, my first job was at a company opening a network of village banks. The villages had a population of around 1 million. SF has 850k people.
- lucianbr 2y agoThere's a theoretical limit of 1400 villages in the entire country at that size, and that's assuming zero population in cities. I don't see how it can be true. If a village has 1 mil, then China is probably entirely made up of something like 40 cities and 500 villages, plus some smaller stuff.
- brabel 2y agoWell, there are more than 100 cities in China with over 1 million people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop... From the perspective, I would think a city of 800k is definitely midsized if you compare with China. I'm from Brazil, and we would definitely say 1 million people is a midsized city there (I don't live there anymore). For example, have you ever heard of Campinas? Well, it has a population of over 1.2 million people, and everyone I know around the area call it a midsized city. But no, no one in their right mind would say a 1 million people city is a village :D.
- janalsncm 2y agoThis is a very funny comment. Small rural villages in China do not have 61 story buildings. Non-major cities do, but not “small rural villages”.
- dredmorbius 2y agoChina has over 100 cities with > 1 million population. (113 to be precise). The 100th-ranked US city (Huntsville, AL) has a population of 225k. (The 113th, Fayetville, NC, has just under 210k.) San Francisco, with 808k population, would rank 126th in China. Not "small rural", but definitely a 2nd or 3rd tier city at best. (The comparable Chinese city, Anqing, is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhi Province, and has, to boot, 631 years on SF.) Consider that Wuhan, a city in China you'd likely never have heard of prior to early 2020, has a population of 11 million, more than any US city, and ranks 9th overall in population within China. China: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...> US: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...> Anquing: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anqing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anqing>
- kentlyons 2y agoThe city of San Jose is spread over a huge area (a good fraction of Santa Clara Valley aka Silicon Valley). The downtown area of San Jose which you might think of as a city is rather small.
- jeffbee 2y agoThe convex hull of San Jose also encloses a ton of junk that is not San Jose because of their unincorporated enclaves and incorporated exclaves. San Jose badly fails my test of whether a city is good or bad based on the geometric complexity of their boundary.
- pie420 2y agoyeah, SF is only 800k people, it is pretty small, and the sunset, richmond, parkside, excelcior, and visitation valley neighborhoods are basically single-family subrubs. Realistically, SF is only a city in it's north-east quadrant. the rest are cute, sleepy suburbs. And I say that as someone who lives in one of those neighborhoods.
- ulfw 2y agoIt's not even a million population. Certainly would never call San Jose or San Francisco a metropolis.
- acchow 2y agoBecause the US is so car centric, the largest cities just feel like "mid-size" cities compared it other continents. A town of 100k in Europe will feel livelier than a metro area of 3 million in the US.