Indianapolis is the 16th largest US city by population. Nearly a million people live in the city proper, and 2.2 million living in the city and surrounding metro area. What do you mean it is tiny? More people live there than San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and Nashville.
And regardless most of the country is tiny, and none of it is irrelevant. Without those “tiny” “irrelevant” places the big port cities that make so much money shipping goods wouldn’t have anywhere to ship them to. If the only people you care about are the ones living in cities the size of LA and up, I’m afraid you care about very few people.
Indianapolis has a population density of 2500 people per square mile. SF has about 19,000 in the same space. Seattle is about 10,000. Denver and Nashville are around 5k and 1.5k respectively, so you’re getting closer. LA is way back up about about 9k. You see why these things aren’t the same?
Chicago has the density, but its glory days are long past. Its just not able to compete with better placed city centers. Not with the state of rail.
So you’re not a real city unless a 500 sqft apartment is a luxury? Stupid take. Throw it on the pile of other stupid takes.
Edit: Also, I love how your defense of calling it tiny is “yeah, sure, it has a lot of people. But it also has a lot of land too, so… ergo… it’s tiny and irrelevant.”
Indianapolis is the 16th largest US city by population. Nearly a million people live in the city proper, and 2.2 million living in the city and surrounding metro area. What do you mean it is tiny? More people live there than San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and Nashville.
And regardless most of the country is tiny, and none of it is irrelevant. Without those “tiny” “irrelevant” places the big port cities that make so much money shipping goods wouldn’t have anywhere to ship them to. If the only people you care about are the ones living in cities the size of LA and up, I’m afraid you care about very few people.
Indianapolis has a population density of 2500 people per square mile. SF has about 19,000 in the same space. Seattle is about 10,000. Denver and Nashville are around 5k and 1.5k respectively, so you’re getting closer. LA is way back up about about 9k. You see why these things aren’t the same?
Chicago has the density, but its glory days are long past. Its just not able to compete with better placed city centers. Not with the state of rail.
So you’re not a real city unless a 500 sqft apartment is a luxury? Stupid take. Throw it on the pile of other stupid takes.
Edit: Also, I love how your defense of calling it tiny is “yeah, sure, it has a lot of people. But it also has a lot of land too, so… ergo… it’s tiny and irrelevant.”