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Originally Posted by polak
We're a city of 1.4 million people. That's tiny. Our crazy skyline for a city of our size really masks how small we actually are. We would be just outside of the Top 40 for largest cities in the US. Somewhere around Hartford and Grand Rapids.
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Yeah, that's only partially true. Based on urban population figures Calgary comes in top 10, just a head of San Jose and just about the size of Dallas. Where American cities get the edge is metro population based on urban sprawl. Unfortunately that also works against the big cities. For example, even though I'm a hockey junkie I get to maybe one or two games a year,, because I live 1 1/2 hours from the arena. In Calgary I could easily live in the burbs and attend games. Can't do that in the metro areas.