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Seemed cool until you look into the details - they gathered the data by asking residents if they lived in a "urban, suburban or rural" area. How many people wh

• wtallis 11y ago
  > "How many people who live within a city's limits are really going to say they live in the suburbs?" Tons: > "Looking only at respondents in the larger principal cities (those with a population greater than 100,000) of larger metropolitan areas (those with a population greater than 500,000), the breakdown was 56 percent urban, 42 percent suburban and 2 percent rural. That means close to half of people who live within city limits describe where they live as suburban." "City limits" is a really poor indicator of "urban".
• nattaggart 11y ago
  Good point. This study seems like it would be biased by a region's perspective on city living. My guess is that people who want to live in the city will self-identify as urban much more often than those who want to live in suburbs.