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jeufie t1_itqyy7m wrote

Reply to comment by SLUer12 in For those who have left Boston, what do you miss the most? by [deleted]

>Once you leave Boston you realize that cities much smaller

Seattle is larger than Boston and has more people.

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Victor_Korchnoi t1_itrl1e4 wrote

The Seattle metro has 4.0 million people. Greater Boston has 4.9 million people.

For the sake of talking about the size of cities, these are much more relevant numbers than how large the municipalities are. It doesn’t really matter that Cambridge, Somerville, Chelsea, Brookline, and Everett are not technically part of Boston when thinking about how big the city feels.

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SLUer12 t1_itusp1m wrote

Seattle has almost twice the land area as Boston with just slightly larger population. The Seattle metro area is a million people smaller than Boston.

By your logic San Diego or Austin is a bigger city than Boston.

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