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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Norfolk has 1.7 million people?
I don't think this is a real valid comparison, as, you'd pick Nashville over Norfolk for a variety of other reasons as well.
Also, which city is better off, the one that spend 500 million dollars to and attracts several tens of thousands more residents, or the city that doesn't spend that money and doesn't swell their tax base by 10-50k? That's the real question.
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Wikipedia has three population listings for them, usually you only see two.
Independent City: 248k
Urban: 1.047m
Metro: 1.67m
Looks like a beautiful city from the Wikipedia pics. Either way, it looks like that typical American thing where there's a bunch of small cities close together and they call it a "metro area" and give it some huge population. Actual Norfolk appears to be about 248k.
I get taking in smaller outlying communities and calling it metro like we do here in Canada quite often, but they seem to take that to the extreme in lots of places in the States.