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L.A. (metro) has never felt bigger than New York, to me, but I do think it feels bigger than Chicago. And Chicago feels bigger than just about everywhere else. All three feel proportional to their ranking.

Driving from Chicago, it's a pretty quick drive to the hinterlands of Indiana, especially when there is no traffic. It takes a couple of hours to feel like you've hit the hinterlands when driving from downtown L.A. or Manhattan under even light traffic. A normal traffic jam in either city will easily make a trip to the countryside a 4- or 5-hour drive.