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Originally Posted by iheartthed
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.
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Yes I noticed this the first time I visited LA and drove to Palm Springs. While Chicago feels "city" longer than it did during my drive from LA to the desert, the suburbs of LA lasted for hours.
Chicago is city-suburb-country in no more than 2 hours during traffic.
LA was city-suburb for like 3 hours before it started to feel like countryside, and traffic was relatively light at the time. Even NYC seems like you hit the hinterlands sooner than LA.