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Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago
Mississauga over Winnipeg?!? I can't even. . .
San Antonio is an interesting case. . . on the one hand it's a very one dimensional city with a handful of finely curated tourist-friendly attractions in the city center - and the local vernacular appears to be more tied to the military establishment, but on the other hand it's probably the most unapologetically "Texas" of Texas cities where it's oddly rivaled against nearby Austin (the most over-hyped and unnecessarily-overtly-liberal city in the US IMO). . .
It reminds me in some ways of San Diego, where on the surface you have a preconceived notion of what you'd expect from a military city with a handful of tourist attractions, but then are surprised by some of the more enjoyable regular parts that you should expect to see in any large city (historic neighborhoods dripping with local flavor, adaptive reuse of industrial areas, excellent dining options far away from the city center). . .
I dunno. . . maybe that doesn't make much sense. . . but whatever. . .
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Yeah, Mississauga isn't really a city, as much as they like to think, they're a suburb of Toronto. It just so happened that different communities amalgamated in the '70s to become Mississauga which is why it has a very large tract of Toronto's sprawl. It's sort of like zooming in on Mesa, Arizona and viewing it as a distinct entity from the Greater Phoenix region.
It's by this logic that Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg are larger than Vancouver, when that really isn't the case when you're on the ground in any of these cities. Vancouver has the heft of its suburbs on the Fraser Delta and into the Fraser Valley that make it busier, have more stuff to do, and just creating a sense of being 'bigger'.
San Antonio, nice as it may be, does not act or feel like the 7th city of the US. It is clear somewhere like Atlanta or Miami is far bigger even if the city proper is not.