re: Is Corpus Christi the biggest city that nobody thinks of as a big city?

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but always thought it was like the size of Monroe or something

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Me too

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really had no idea it had 400,000 people and had a skyline that looked like this:

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Me neither

Thats nuts

I'm not surprised I knew was around the size of Baton Rouge maybe even bigger.

That's just how Texas is. The Valley and West Texas are a "whole 'nother country" compared to the Dallas/Houston/San Antonio triangle.

But five (now six) pages and no mention that Corpus is the home of the original Whataburger? I think it was across the street from the Del Mar College campus. They moved corporate to San Antonio a few years ago; I think Corpus people with money (and the Valley) aspire to move to San Antonio.

We had to fight the Mexicans more than once to keep the border from being the Nueces River instead of the Rio Grande, in that area.

Pretty sure that's Reno

My gf is from there and even she says it's a giant shithole. But not as big of a giant shithole as New Orleans tho.

I did not know this

400k you say? Bigger than NOLA. Whats the mayoral term limit? Any confederate statues? Asking for a soon to be unemployable friend.

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Is Corpus Christi the biggest city that nobody thinks of as a big city?

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I'm way late to this but Youngstown, OH

500,000 metro. Yet. No commercial airport because it's sandwiched between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

The only reason I know it is because we used to camp the coast and hold unofficial 4x4 races in the 4x4 only section.

Nobody thinks of Corpus Christi.