Well, again, it’s larger in the sense that they happened to draw the municipal boundaries wider. It’s not got the concentrated downtown core San Francisco does, though.
Seriously. I’ve honestly been asked, “you’re from Detroit? Have you been shot???” :rolleyes:
When I say Columbus, I usually have to specify which Columbus. That right there is a bad sign.
Thanks to the magic of digital TV, I can now watch the Greensboro news from their local CBS affiliate. And it does indeed appear that very little is happening there. By the way, that general area of the state is known as “the triad”. Still doesn’t ring a bell? I thought as much.
My vote goes to Cleveland. And for good reason.
There’s a metropolitan area of over 500,000 I had no idea existed until the other night. A student where I work who I’ve talked to a few times was telling me about going to gay bars where she’s from, which I knew from previous conversations is Bettendorf, Iowa. I assumed she meant when she and friends visited Indianapolis or Chicago or some other large midwestern city because Bettendorf is a town of about 30,000 people, BUT it’s part of the Quad Cities(which is actuall 5 cities with several little towns thrown in as well) on the Iowa/Illinois border that, as I understand it, are essentially regarded as one metropolitan area and have an aggregate pop of over half a million people.
I suppose I think of the midwest the way a lot of people think of the south: a big city here and there and miles and miles and miles of nothing but farms. You don’t think of Iowa having gay bars and upscale restaurants and New Age shops (which she also mentioned the Quad Cities having).