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re: Five Independent US Cities with Surprising Populations
Posted on 4/10/18 at 10:42 am to StringedInstruments
Posted on 4/10/18 at 10:42 am to StringedInstruments
Omaha is a very underrated place. Very cool city.
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Posted on 4/10/18 at 10:42 am to athenslife101
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In the Midwest, it’s no surprise Rockford is big. It’s also a shithole. It has a higher crime rate than Chicago. People in Chicago look down on people from Rockford due to the crime rate
Rockford is quite rough and is getting rougher.
Actually, a lot of Illinois outside of Chicagoland is pretty damn rough. Peoria, East St. Louis, Kankakee, Effingham, Moline, Danville, Litchfield, and many more are all pretty rough. Champaign is fine because of the university, and Springfield is perfectly OK, but other than that...
Posted on 4/10/18 at 10:45 am to Y.A. Tittle
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It's like there's this one little neighborhood, in Omaha that just happens to be part of Iowa. What the frick is that?
I flew into Omaha for a business meeting once and I saw the address for the meeting was in Council Bluffs, IA. I was thinking holy shite I flew into the wrong city. It ended up being about a 15 minute drive
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:07 am to fallguy_1978
Sioux Falls, SD
City Population 2000 - 123,000
City Population 2010 - 153,000
City Population 2018 - 183,000
Metro Population 2000 - 187,000
Metro Population 2010 - 228,000
Metro Population 2018 - 251,000
Sioux Falls is growing rapidly. Seems like a very nice place to live. Good schools and nice people.
City Population 2000 - 123,000
City Population 2010 - 153,000
City Population 2018 - 183,000
Metro Population 2000 - 187,000
Metro Population 2010 - 228,000
Metro Population 2018 - 251,000
Sioux Falls is growing rapidly. Seems like a very nice place to live. Good schools and nice people.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:08 am to 50_Tiger
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Was literally just in Omaha Easter weekend
Could’ve been you on this list
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:10 am to StringedInstruments
Peyton Manning ran his entire offense off of Omaha. You didn't think it was a major city?
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:12 am to Buckeye Backer
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Good schools and nice people
Places like Sioux Falls, Omaha, Boise, etc. are going to become more and more attractive as our society continues to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:13 am to StringedInstruments
Toledo is the dirty armpit of America.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:14 am to okietiger
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Omaha is a very underrated place. Very cool city.
Yup. I did several assignments there back in the early 2000s. It was a very nice city, minus all the crazed Nebraska fans.
Do not know about now, but they had huge interstates and no traffic.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:24 am to DarthRebel
San Angelo is a dump. The "River Walk" is a bike path w/ some picnic spots along the river and its nice for jogging but to call it a river walk is ridiculous.They have a nice art museum but that's about it.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:27 am to slackster
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I knew Augusta was pretty big because the font is bigger than most on Google Maps.
For a "surprisingly big" city, the Augusta Airport (AGS) has not kept pace. It's dinky.
Would not want to fly in/out of there during Master's Week.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:30 am to StringedInstruments
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San Angelo
Great town. Only problem is it’s completely surrounded by Texas.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:34 am to StringedInstruments
Presuming that these are populations of the cities themselves as opposed to their metro areas. Louisville has over 750,000 people in its city, which is double the size of St. Louis' city population. But at 1.4M in its metro, Louisville is about half the size of St. Louis' metro population.
Interesting all the same.
Interesting all the same.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:36 am to Paul Allen
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No Corpus Christi skyline pic? I thought they were resoundingly and surprisingly large?
Other way around. Corpus is surprisingly small.
The metro area population is roughly half the size of the Baton Rouge metro area.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:37 am to LoveThatMoney
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Presuming that these are populations of the cities themselves as opposed to their metro areas. Louisville has over 750,000 people in its city, which is double the size of St. Louis' city population. But at 1.4M in its metro, Louisville is about half the size of St. Louis' metro population.
Interesting all the same.
Columbus, OH is like that.
The city itself is 2-3 times the size of Cleveland. The Cleveland metro area is almost double the size of the Columbus metro area.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 3:56 pm to StringedInstruments
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I meant not part of a metropolitan area. Is there a better term for it?
Maybe individual municipality or incorporated city. Independent just seemed strange when I first read it.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 4:13 pm to 50_Tiger
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And yet has a lower crime rate than all those cities. How is this even possible? I’ll hang up and listen.
Well in three days I don't think I saw any person with a difference in complexion.
You didn't get too far out of downtown then. I lived in the vicinity of Omaha for the first 24 years of my life. It is a very nice, crime free city for the most part. However, if you go to North Omaha, it's like I imagine North Baton Rouge based on comments on this board. South Omaha will make you think you crossed the border into Mexico. As you head westward, it just gets richer and richer going from middle class to the top earners. If you go East and cross the river just a little past that waterfront of Con Agra in OP... you'll be in Council Bluffs, IA, which is a mix of white trash and middle class mostly. It's very segregated to sum it up.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 4:20 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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just looked this up on Google Maps. It's like there's this one little neighborhood, in Omaha that just happens to be part of Iowa. What the frick is that?
I mean, you can see it is around this oxbow lake that was, I guess, part of Iowa at one point until the river changed course, but you'd think they would have ceded it to Nebraska at some point thereafter.
That's Carter lake. I always wondered that too...it's kind of a crappy run down area too, tucked in between an industrial area with junk yards and north Omaha which has the much more darker skin complexion as mentioned in an earlier post.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 4:21 pm to 50_Tiger
Malcolm X was from Omaha. it's more diverse than it seems.
Posted on 4/10/18 at 4:22 pm to CrimsonTideMD
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Most people watch the Masters and think Augusta is something like Savannah or Charleston.
It's not. The rest of the town is more like Cleveland, a run down shithole.
Most of Augusta reminds me of Montgomery.
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