• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Isn’t that mostly because they claim a ridiculously massive metro area? What’s the density like?

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      4 months ago

      Lots of other places do too. That’s why true city size should be counted as the metropolitan population, not just the city borders. In that case, Houston is 5th, beaten by Dallas/Fort Worth at 4th, which surprisingly means Texas has 2 metropolitan areas out of in the top 5 in the country.

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        4 months ago

        This simply isn’t backed by statistics. While Houston is the 4th most populous American city, it’s only ~200th in density. If “Lots of other places [did] too,” then they wouldn’t be half as far down that second list.

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          4 months ago

          I don’t really understand what point you’re trying to make, but I’d be happy to argue for or against it if you could sum it up.