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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
We have to draw the line somehwere though.
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I know what you mean, but how? And why do we have to draw a line somewhere, really?
State borders are established, accepted boundaries, but we know that they are only completely arbitrary lines on a map that don't actually exist... and obviously are totally ineffective as a means for determining the bounds of population centers. So how could any other lines drawn in this completely interconnected region be any more accurate?
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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
I meant Philadelphia MSA (at current borders) might gain extra population in the future as New York exurbanites might be living on Bucks County (PA) or Burlington County (NJ) and Baltimore exurbanites on Cecil County (MD), boosting Philadelphia's numbers.
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Sure, I did understand what you were getting at, and I agree. I guess I'm just posing more of a rhetorical question. There's just so much interchange of population and commerce activity in the NYC-DC region that it's impossible to bound individual MSAs (which are among the largest MSAs in the nation) with any form of accuracy.
So if Philadelphia MSA gains population in Bucks County at NYC MSA expense, yet this population still commutes to and works in NYC MSA (even just across the border in NJ... as many do), the Philadelphia MSA gain and NYC MSA loss is rather meaningless, right? Does that really signify that Philadelphia is growing and NYC is shrinking?