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Originally Posted by LA21st
The only thing preventing it is the marine base.
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I believe it takes more than some ribbons of continuously built up areas to be regarded as a single metropolitan area, otherwise New York and Philadelphia would be one for decades.
If there were like 30 million people there, with upgraded transit and freeways, maybe LA and SD could be functioning as one. But with the current growth rates, this target is far away.
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Originally Posted by bossabreezes
I already consider them pretty much to already be combined, not sure what's hard to imagine about this. Even if Camp Pendleton stays forever untouched (it should, in my opinion)- the area is already solidly developed.
A similar weird one that people ask about is the DC-Baltimore region. This is already totally intertwined but people still seem to not accept that for whatever reason. A few miles of sparse development between the two places does not mean they are different regions.
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New York and Philadelphia are a better analogy. They are closer to each other than Los Angeles and San Diego, and are more populated.