Quote Originally Posted by jimsumner View Post
I didn't mention metropolitan areas. Or urban areas. Or cities beside other nearby cities. I said Raleigh had more people than Cincinnati. It does. What part of my sentence was factually incorrect?
I agree with your larger point; ACC areas are growing fast.
But at the same time, I think Mal has a point that it's a little disingenuous to just pull the populations of the cities proper. Boston proper, for example, is smaller than Charlotte proper, but the metropolitan areas are ~4.5 million vs. ~1.7 million, respectively. To claim that Charlotte is a larger, more major city that Boston would be crazy, in my opinion. It also has a lot to do with city histories; Boston proper would be much larger if it had the history of annexing surrounding cities, as some other cities have done (cough*new york*cough).

But, to your point, I'm sure metro Charlotte is growing faster than metro Boston.