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Originally Posted by dave8721
Also interesting that SF + SJ > Chicago for 3rd place in the US.
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not that surprising to me.
bay area suburbia is an order of magnitude more hemmed in by water, geography and topography, than chicagoland is, which is surrounded on 3 of its 4 sides by the world's largest cornfield.
in chicagoland, i'd wager that >95% of the metro area's 10K+ ppsm tracts are in the city proper, evanston, and the inner ring bungalow belt burbs on the west side (oak park, cicero, berwyn, elmwood park), with a
VERY light and sporadic sprinkling of such tracts out in greater suburbia (often times just clusters of crap-tacular suburban-style apartment complexes), where density generally drops off considerably.
however, in the bay area, you have a sizeable amount 10K+ ppsm tracts reaching way out into deep surburbia because so much of the bay are has so little developable flat land to begin with. you end up with a lot of dense-ish strips of suburbia squeezed in between water and mountains.
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