One thing they got as exact as you can conceive: "Population is the primary consideration. Currently 12.6 million, it's expected to reach 18.3 million in the

One thing they got as exact as you can conceive: "Population is the primary consideration. Currently 12.6 million, it's expected to reach 18.3 million in the Los Angeles area by 2010." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles "The city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world[6] and the second largest in the United States."