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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
Your obsession with Delaware being its own thing is weird. It's a great little state. It's also a suburb of Philadelphia.
As the crow flies, the Delaware state line is what, 15 miles from the Philadelphia city line? Southern Delaware and Chester Counties (PA) are very intertwined with Delaware and Wilmington, specifically. It's one region.
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I think different methodology is needed where cities basically overlap. Wilmington should be in the CSA, but I think it stands apart on a day-to-day level. It has its own corporate and commercial core of companies that bring people into Wilmington and the inner suburbs.
Trenton is about 10 miles from the Philadelphia city line and is in another metro. So there is precedence of cities close to major cities not being connected to that MSA.
I wonder what will happen if transit gets even better, or Pennsylvania becomes a place to commute from more and more, and Bucks County, which touches Philadelphia, switches to the New York City CSA. If it's solely on commuting patterns, then enough people living in Yardley or Levittown or Fairless Hills and driving to Princeton Junction to take the PATH up north could switch the county over.
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