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Oakland is only a suburb in the sense that Newark, NJ is.
by khuey 14y ago
Oakland is only a suburb in the sense that Newark, NJ is.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoAmericans tend to think of "suburb" as meaning "sprawly low-density area with lots of parking-lots and roads," but really it can mean any sort of outlying secondary community. Kawasaki, and even Yokohama, for instance, are very much suburbs of Tokyo if you look at how people live (a huge proportion of the population commute to Tokyo for work and play), but are also a large cities in their own right, and very densely populated.
- lambdasquirrel 14y agoWell that's even worse because it means that the artists, writers, etc. have simply moved out of the city.