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Originally Posted by urbanlife
No offense, but it is clear by this statement that you know nothing or very little about Norfolk and Hampton Roads. In most cases, you would be correct that beyond local governments, city boundaries are arbitrary to the overall population in the metro...what is different with Norfolk is that it is a small 250K city in the middle of a metro of 7 cities, all with their own downtown and skyline (well not every one of them.)
Virginia Beach has the tallest building in the state...Portsmouth, Hampton, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News...they all have at least one skyline in the metro...a couple of those cities have more than two...while at first glance this might not mean much, but you must understand that this is not a typical metro and there are a number of urban centers and skylines within this city...if they were all together, then it would be seen as a much larger city for its size, but Norfolk is not the center of Hampton Roads anymore...heck it is hard to argue where the center of the region is beyond the military bases.
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my apologies...you are very right, i know nothing about norfolk at all....thats why i was so surprised to hear its CMA size....i didnt realize it is a different case.....sorry for the rant.
it makes me crazy when i read people on here so often claiming that a city is only 300 000 people when it is in the centre of a city 10 times larger....it even happened earlier in this thread....civic boundaries are meaningless, generally, but i didnt realize that this was a different scenario...thanks for the correction.
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