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[MadDog73]

All right, just tell me straight up: Which is bigger, San Antonio or Denver?

Aw, crap, never mind. When you look a largest combined Metropolitan areas, SA isn't even in the top 23. But Denver and Seattle are....

http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-CombMetro.html

[IX_Equilibrium]

According to the latest gov't census (yr 2000), San Antonio is ranked 9th with 1,144,646 people.

Denver is ranked 25th with 554,636.

I sure as wouldn't call Denver a small town, either.

[MadDog73]

I guess it depends on your definition of "Largest City." Technically, yes, SA is the 8th Largest City. (1,214,725 pop) But that's misleading, because other smaller cities (like Denver and Seattle) have larger Metropolitan areas.

Question: when looking at the Metropolitan area of say, Dallas, is Arlington and Fort Worth included?

Even still, while San Antonio might not be the Metroplex of Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth, it's not a Small Town either.

[IX_Equilibrium]

Even still, while San Antonio might not be the Metroplex of Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth, it's not a Small Town either.

Yeah that's my point. I could give a how SA ranks to other cities in population. In fact, I would prefer it to not grow too much more.

It just find it amusing when they call SA a "small town".

[Ginofan]

So this should be on newstands today right?

[samikeyp]

We have over a million people but there is a distinct small town feel here. Personally, I like that.

[wildbill2u]

I like to compare San Antonio and Green Bay. Both small-market cities with championship calibre teams, year after year. And with fans that adore the team because they are the only game in town. SA is ' letown USA' too?

[Extra Stout]

Good read.

Funny how SA is the 9th biggest city in the nation, and people refer to it as a small town.

Compared to just about every other metro area that has a pro sports team, SA is tiny, like Salt Lake, Sacramento, and Memphis are tiny. Denver, for example, or Seattle, have metro areas like 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 times as big as SA's, even if the central cities are smaller.

All that SA's being the 8th or 9th largest city indicates is that it aggressively annexes surrounding developments before they have a chance to incorporate, so it never gets "landlocked."

But the media does tend to act like it is just some dusty border crossroads with a general store, a dozen houses, and some chickens as the only backdrop to the SBC Center and the Riverwalk, rather than a city with over a million people.

[jalbre6]

I like to compare San Antonio and Green Bay. Both small-market cities with championship calibre teams, year after year. And with fans that adore the team because they are the only game in town. SA is ' letown USA' too?

SA is a good sized city/metro area with 1.8 million people. Metro Green Bay, 100+ miles from both Milwaukee and Madison, has around 250,000.

[ZStomp]

So is this magazine with the Spurs on the cover out or what?

[gospursgojas]

So was he talking about MaliK Rose when he was talking about the one guy who gave up the middle too much???