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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
You all always love to talk about Toronto as a great city. So add it to every other city in Canada and you still don't have something equivalent to New York.
As for the other complaints about MSAs, the political divisions everywhere vary all over the map with little economic effect. LA is the best example having many, many tiny municiplaities in one great urban area. But the SF Bay Area is also a unified economic region. People live in San Francisco and commute to San Jose every day (or did before COVID had them working from home)--the "Google busses" hauling them are infamous in San Francisco neighborhoods. The whole region is connected by commuter rail (BART) and people move around it for shopping, work and liesure activities constantly. The San Francisco football team plays in the San Jose MSA. It's all one metro area in reality and it's really an economic engine that is more productive than so many countries.
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I've said that on another thread, but in general, CSAs are much less problematic than MSAs.
We have things like San Jose and San Francisco, San Bernardino and Los Angeles, Brigdeport and New York, coming separated while they form a single metro regions for at least 6 decades.
CSA, on the other hand, just have one or two rural counties added onto Atlanta or Dallas or Chicago that makes no difference whatsoever.