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Originally Posted by SFBruin
I feel like there are a pretty clear big 2, big 3, and big 11 metro areas in the US.
I don't really include Detroit in these lists, perhaps because I am too young to remember when it was the fourth largest city in the US.
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Well, it's included because it's over 5 million people, and up to 2010 Census Detroit, Atlanta, Washington, Miami and Boston had pretty much the same population, ranging from 5.2 to 5.6 million people.
Now, with the 2020 Census, all of them (plus Philadelphia) are above 6 million people, so maybe now we could talk about the "Big 11" leaving Detroit out, but it would be a bit weird to place the threshold on 6 million mark instead of 5 million. And now, as Seattle is about to join the 5 million club, with a GDP larger than Miami's, it would be even more problematic to move the mark up.