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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
How can they be "undersized" if the same methodology is used for every city? It's just that these more distant areas (like Providence for Boston) simply have too little commuting relationship to the core area to enter the metro area. If Boston is "undersized", then the people of Brussels could say that Brussels is "undersized" by not including Antwerp, the people of Amsterdam could say Amsterdam is "undersized" by not including Utrecht, etc. It's never ending.
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Well, the list brought Washington-Baltimore which is analogous to Boston-Providence. In any case, I was not talking about Providence, but Worcester MSA and Nashua MSA which are clearly "Boston metro area" (a 6 million people region). Detroit and Ann Arbor are fully merged, as Cleveland and Akron.
And the problem here is the consistency. You can work with strict or broader definitions. I like both. You cannot mix broad and strict definitions (and even city proper) on a same list though. And here we're not even discussing differences between different continents: you have inconsistencies inside the same country.