How Many of the 20 Largest Cities in Your State Have You Been To?

[Edward_The_Head]

@RTFirefly

Nearly half of these are basically DC burbs. How long does it take to go from Bowie to New Carrollton to Hyattsville to College Park to Takoma Park to Rockville? Depends on traffic. Not long at all at, say, 6am on a Sunday morning. And by the time you get near the bottom of that list, the ones that aren’t burbs are small towns, not cities by any stretch of the imagination. Unlike Virginia, where Staunton is a city - a smallish one, but definitely a city.

Baltimore Yes
Frederick Yes
Rockville Yes
Gaithersburg Yes
Bowie Yes
Hagerstown Yes
Annapolis Yes
College Park Yes
Salisbury Yes
Laurel Yes
Greenbelt Yes
Cumberland Yes
Westminster Yes
Hyattsville Yes
Takoma Park Yes
Aberdeen Yes
Havre de Grace No
Cambridge Yes
New Carrollton No
Frostburg Yes

I can’t remember if I’ve been through New Carrollton or not. I’m also not sure why Frostburg is listed so high. I think that they include the students of the college there because they actually live there during the census. I think the town normally only has around 3000 permanent residents.

A lot of those I’ve not spent much time in, mostly because they are on the other end of the beltway. I’ve spent more time on the Eastern Shore then I have in PG county.

[silenus]

I get down to #60 on the California list before I miss one. I don’t recall ever having been to Fairfield.

[missred]

Tennessee

Memphis yes
Knoxville yes
Nashville used to live there
Chattanooga yes
Clarksville yes
Murfreesboro yes
Jackson yes
Franklin yes
Johnson City yes
Bartlett no
Hendersonville brother’s family lives there
Kingsport yes
Collierville no
Cleveland yes
Smyrna work here
Germantown yes
Brentwood yes
Columbia yes
LaVergne used to work from our office here
Gallatin yes

In my home state of Indiana, I was surprised to find that I had been to all except possibly Lawrence.

[Miss_Mapp]

Since the Maryland list has been done:

Baltimore Yes
Frederick Yes
Rockville Yes
Gaithersburg Yes
Bowie Yes
Hagerstown Yes
Annapolis Yes
College Park Yes
Salisbury No
Laurel Yes
Greenbelt Yes
Cumberland No
Westminster No
Hyattsville Yes
Takoma Park Yes
Aberdeen No
Havre de Grace No
Cambridge No
New Carrollton Yes
Frostburg No

[Ellen_Cherry]

I’ve lived in Kentucky all my life and travel a lot for work. So I’ve been to all these cities, with the possible exception of Madisonville.

Louisville — born here
Lexington — live here now
Bowling Green — numerous times
Owensboro — for work a lot; husband grew up here
Covington — near where I grew up; on the way to Cincinnati
Hopkinsville — home of best friend
Richmond — nearby
Florence — near where I grew up; on the way to Cincinnati
Henderson — several times for work
Elizabethtown — lots
Nicholasville — nearby
Jeffersontown — near Louisville so yes
Frankfort — state capital; lots
Independence — near where I grew up
Radcliff — near Louisville
Ashland — lots for work
Madisonville — can’t say for sure
Winchester — lived here for four years

Most towns in Kentucky are small; I could spend all day listing all the towns I’ve been to.

[Ellen_Cherry]

@epbrown01

Come on. No state has 20 cities worth visiting. Not IL, certainly not my home state of KY (Louisville and Lexington, maybe Bowling Green if you like Corvettes.)

You need to get out more.

[Bridget_Burke]

Out of the Texas Top Twenty, I’ve missed Laredo, Lubbock & Brownsville. However, I’m sort of assuming I’ve been through some of those towns in the Metroplex. Probably looking for a place to buy beer…

[magnusblitz]

Another CA here:

1. Los Angeles - yes, lived there for 3 years
2. San Diego - yes, visited while looking at colleges
3. San Jose - yes, live in the Bay Area
4. San Francisco - yes, live in the Bay Area
5. Fresno - yes, go there on business
6. Sacramento - yes, go there on business
7. Long Beach - yes, went there once for graduation party
8. Oakland - yes, live in the Bay Area
9. Bakersfield - yes, went there once for an interview (it was terrible)
10. Anaheim - yes, Disneyland
11. Santa Ana - yes, once for an interview
12. Riverside - no
13. Stockton - yes, for work
14. Chula Vista - no
15. Fremont - yes, for work
16. Irvine - once, to visit friends
17. San Bernardino - yes, once for an interview
18. Modesto - yes, for work
19. Oxnard - no
20. Fontana - no

Had this been before law school, likely would’ve crossed most of the southern California cities off my yes list. And a lot of those places are county seats, so I’ve been there to visit their courthouses for work.

[LSLGuy]

@kunilou

Heh, nine of the largest cities in Missouri are what everyone considers “St. Louis,” and six are “Kansas City.” That leaves five outstate, and I’ve been to them, too.

That link does not go where you think it goes.

At least it’s work-safe and not *too *embarrassing. :rolleyes:

[somepumpkin]

I’ve been to all of them in North Carolina. And i’ve actually spent at least one night in all except High Point and Wilson. But really… who *wants *to spend a night in those 2 cities, anyway?

1. Charlotte - 687,650
2. Raleigh - 368,944
3. Greensboro - 243,012
4. Durham - 218,994
5. Winston Salem - 204,074
6. Fayetteville - 134,827
7. Cary - 126,497
8. Wilmington - 108,053
9. High Point - 95,340
10. Jacksonville - 75,929
11. Asheville - 75,004
12. Greenville - 72,295
13. Gastonia - 71,901
14. Concord - 66,803
15. Rocky Mount - 56,426
16. Chapel Hill - 55,310
17. Wilson - 49,288
18. Burlington - 48,298
19. Kannapolis - 41,536
20. Hickory - 39,767

Almost all visits/stays were for personal reasons. In fact, i can’t specifically nail-down anything that was work-dictated. Some of it was university-related (>20 years ago), however.

[LSLGuy]

I agree with kunilou’s point that cities which are simply municipal subdivisions of current large conurbations should not count. A “city” is an island surrounded on all sides by some combination of water, rural land, or uninhabited land.

And by that definition, not very many US states even have 20 significant cities. 2 or 3 cities and a bunch of 50-100K population county seats is more like it.

[Little_Nemo]

I’ve lived in NY all my life and I’ve moved around a lot within the state (I worked for the state before retiring).

So the cities I’ve been to: Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn, Batavia, Beacon, Binghamton, Buffalo, Canandaigua, Cohoes, Corning, Cortland, Dunkirk, Elmira, Fulton, Geneva, Glens Falls, Hornell, Hudson, Ithaca, Jamestown, Kingston, Lackawana, Lockport, Middletown, New York City (all five boroughs), Newburgh, Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Norwich, Ogdensburg, Olean, Oneida, Oneonta, Oswego, Peekskill, Plattsburgh, Port Jervis, Poughkeepsie, Rensselaer, Rochester, Rome, Salamanca, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Sherrill, Syracuse, Tonawanda, Troy, Utica, Watertown, Watervliet, White Plains, Yonkers

The cities I’m not sure about: Glen Cove, Gloversville, Johnstown, Little Falls, Long Beach, Mechanicville, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Rye

And as a bonus, I’ve been to all nine cities in Vermont as well (thanks to BrotherCadfael for the list).

[bump]

1. Houston - Yes
   2 San Antonio - Yes
2. Dallas - Yes
3. Austin - Yes
   5 Fort Worth - Yes
4. El Paso - No
5. Arlington - Yes
6. Corpus Christi - Yes
   9 Plano - Yes
7. Laredo - No
8. Lubbock - No
9. Garland - Yes
10. Irving - Yes
11. Amarillo - No
12. Grand Prairie - Yes
13. Brownsville - Yes
14. Pasadena - Yes
15. McKinney - Yes
16. Mesquite - Yes
17. Killeen - Yes

16/20. Not too bad.

[Happy_Fun_Ball]

If you go to the List of Cities and Town in Colorado and sort by population rank, the first one I have not been to is #57, La Junta.

[Moonlitherial]

The List of Cities in Ontario only goes to 51 and I’ve been to all of them, and lived in almost a dozen of them. I would question if all 51 entries count as cities though.

[Lsura]

Georgia

Atlanta - Yes
Augusta - Yes
Columbus - Yes
Savannah - Yes
Athens- No
Sandy Springs - Yes
Roswell - Yes
Macon - Yes
Johns Creek - Yes
Albany - I don’t know
Warner Robins - Yes
Alpharetta - Yes
Marietta - Yes
Valdosta - Yes
Smyrna - Yes
Dunwoody - Yes
Rome - Yes
East Point - Yes
Milton- No
Gainesville -No

[standingwave]

@dracoi

19/20 for Washington. Everything in the top 20 but Kennewick.

Of course, that’s not hard. 13 of the top 20 are Seattle and its suburbs, and a trip out to Spokane will get you another 3.

I should mention, though, that some of these cities I’ve only been to in the sense that I waved from the highway on the way by.

Seattle - of course
Spokane - yep
Tacoma - yep
Vancouver - yep, friends live near there
Bellevue - yep
Kent - yep
Everett - yep
Renton - yep
Yakima - relatives live there
Federal Way - friend lives there
Spokane Valley - yep
Kirkland - yep
Bellingham - yep, on the way to Mt. Baker
Kennewick - friend lives there
Auburn - yep
Pasco - yep, on trips to kennewick
Marysville - drive through on way to Mt. Baker
Lakewood - drove through on way to Olympia
Redmond - yep
Shoreline - another drive through on I-5

So 20/20. The most surprising thing from researching this is learning that Olympia (the state capital) is the 24th most populated city in Washington.

List of municipalities in Washington

[Eonwe]

@BrotherCadfael

I have been to all nine cities in Vermont: Burlington (42,417), South Burlington (17,904), Rutland (16,495), Barre (9,052), Montpelier (7,855), Winooksi (7,267), St. Albans (6,918), Newport (4,589), and Vergennes (2,588).

Ditto.

[Voyager]

@Rhiannon8404

Stealing this list - I’ll have two - visited/slept there
Yes/Yes 1 Los Angeles 3,904,657
Yes/Yes 2 San Diego 1,307,402
Yes/Yes 3 San Jose 1,000,536
Yes/Yes 4 San Francisco 805,235
Yes/No 5 Fresno 510,665
Yes/Yes 6 Long Beach 468,257
Yes/Yes 7 Sacramento 466,488
Yes/No 8 Oakland 390,724
Yes/No 9 Bakersfield 347,483
Yes/Yes 10 Anaheim 336,265
No/No 11 Santa Ana 324,528
No /No 12 Riverside 303,871
Yes/No 13 Stockton 291,707
Yes/Yes 14 Chula Vista 243,916
Yes/Yes 15 Fremont 214,089
Yes/Maybe 16 Irvine 212,375 - I visited for work and stayed overnight in Orange County, but maybe not Irvine
No/No 17 San Bernardino 209,924
Yes/No 18 Modesto 201,165
No/No 19 Oxnard 197,899
No /No 20 Fontana 196,069

[Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge]

Memphis yes
Knoxville yes
Nashville yes
Chattanooga yes
Clarksville no
Murfreesboro yes
Jackson yes
Franklin no
Johnson City no
Bartlett yes
Hendersonville no
Kingsport no
Collierville yes
Cleveland no
Smyrna work no
Germantown yes
Brentwood yes
Columbia no
LaVergne no
Gallatin yes