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Originally Posted by STLtoSA
I never grouped those together that was miaht82.
I do not believe that the Raliegh/Durham Metro and the Greensboro/Winston-Salem Metro should be combined into one area.
However, if one wants to lump Austin and San Antonio together then you might as well lump the NC cities together too. The similarities between the two regions are scary.
Distance:
Greensboro to Raleigh - 82 miles
San Antonio to Austin - 81 miles
Lewisville (far west) to Clayton (far east) - 130 miles
Castroville to Serenada - 132 miles
Population (2012 Estimates):
SA/Austin Area - 4,068,000
Raleigh/Greensboro Area - 3,610,051
The main difference is that the NC area is more fragmented with at least 4 cores where the SA/Austin area has two distinct cores.
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...and I only lumped them together to speak to the point of "regional" pull, which area and population-wise (like you pointed out) is a similar comparison. However, I also said that the two didn't compare due to the fact that alot of the population is spread out
here (I live in Cary).