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Originally Posted by Crawford
Skyline has nothing to do with anything. The fact is that Dallas has a tiny core for a metro of 8 million, and LA has a tiny core for a metro of 18-19 million. These are huge metros with relatively unimportant cores.
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There are 9 MSAs in the US with a population north of 5 million. Of those, only 3 (Dallas, Houston and Atlanta) are positioned inland, away from built up, congested coastal areas or otherwise directly boxed in from the north, south, east or west by another major metro.
That said, how big do you realistically expect the core of a city in the middle of Texas or Georgia (or Arizona, Kansas, Montana, etc.) to be when they have endless room to grow? People have many different lifestyle preferences, and not everyone desires to build, live in or spend their recreational time in a large, bustling urban core like those in NYC, Philadelphia, etc. Again - Dallas is in
TEXAS. The metro area is capable of extending west to Abilene (181 miles), south to Waco (95 miles), east to Longview (130 miles) and north to Oklahoma (100 miles).
Do you
honestly expect a major sunbelt city and international transportation hub that is constantly experiencing rapid explosive growth to be focused on building out a large core, the likes of cities in tightly-packed coastal cities? I mean I get that this is the internet, but you might want to come back down to reality.