Talk:BosWash
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[edit] Map, please
It would be great to have a map for this entry! --James 19:53, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] BosWashLanta?
Would anyone say it could extend all the way down to Atlanta, via the Research Triangle cities and Charlotte? And my aunt, from Maine, says Portland has practically become a suburb of Boston...
- I'd say "no" on the question of the metropolis extending as far as Atlanta; there're a lot of empty regions between DC and there. A nighttime photo of the Eastern Seaboard will probably show that.
- But your aunt is right; there are a large number of people that commute from Maine to Boston each day and some of them come from at least as far as Portland; there's scheduled commuter bus service that extends at least that far and, reportedly, even some people commuting on the Amtrak Downeaster. Maine's a bit more sparsely populated than the North Shore of Mass and southwards, but it wouldn't be too much of a definitional stretch to include at least some of it in "BosWash". The one thing you notice about Maine, though, is that the populated area is very thin; get just a very few miles from the shore ("shoah" in Maine-speak) and there isn't anybody there ("they ain't no-one they-uh"). This also isn't true once you hit the Mass state line. (And New Hampshire is a "transitional region" with population characteristics of both states.)
- Atlant 23:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
I've driven I95 past Washington DC and Virginia and the Carolinas are very sparsely populated, you can go dozens of miles without a highway exit and the areas around the highway exits are usually populated by a waffle house, a fireworks stand, gas stations, and some farms. There are growing pockets of urbanity in the south, but I think it's definately too few and far between for it to be considered part of the "Megalopolis". Oh, and is anyone else wondering if Albany, among other areas on that list, are outside what is generally considered to be the Megalopolis? I mean, Bangor? Come on... it looks like a bunch of hometown fanboys have been throwing their cities on there even though they are most definately outside of the "Megalopolis".
I think it should extend futher south, atleast down to Virginia.
[edit] That many people???
Does BosWash actually contain "7% of the world population"? I haven't checked the math yet, but that seems improbably large. --Clampton 06:09, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Good catch. If the world pop is approx 6 billion, then 7% of that is 420 million, which is more than the entire US! -- Sholom 21:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
I checked again and it says .7% (point seven percent). Did it say that before? I may need new glasses. Clampton 12:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Richmond/Hampton Roads
I don't think BosWash includes Richmond and the Hampton Roads. Fredericksburg (the southern end of the Washington metro) to Richmond is a rural area, and parts of the land between Richmond and Hampton Roads are also rural. --Schzmo 12:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cambridge
So, Cambridge isn't a major city because it's essentially a suburb of Boston. To be a major city, a city has to be large relative to its surroundings, not just large in an absolute sense. AJD 12:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, but if Cambridge is out, then Nashua and Manchester ought to be out as well. In fact, the list may need a careful reading from top to bottom. I'd rather we just leave Cambridge in, given the Universities that it hosts.
- Atlant 13:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, I'd leave Nashua and Manchester out just because I think they're too far north to be in the BosWash megalopolis.... But why don't they count as major cities? I mean, aren't they centers of population and business for their regions? I don't know much about NH demographics, so I'll take your word for it if they're not. AJD 15:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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- While they're big for NH (first and second in population, IIRC), they're small in terms of population within the BosWash megalopolis.
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- Manchester: 107,007 (all numbers from 2000 census)
- Cambridge: 101,355
- Nashua: 86,605
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- This is obviously an area where our decision must either be absolute (e.g., "No cities below 100,000" or some such criterion) or subjective. Me, I probably lean towards the subjective, and I'd say the presence of two of the mightiest universities in America ought to make Cambridge eligible if we're still including decidedly third-rate cities like Manchester and Nashua. (And I say this as a citizen of one of those two third-raters. ;-) )
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- Atlant 16:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Metropolis
Metropolis, the fictional city in the DC Comics Universe, is essentially equal to the BosWash corridor by the time of the Legion of Super Heroes in the 30th Century (pre-Crisis). I don't have a ready reference, but I do believe the series Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes has a map that shows it as such
[edit] Metropolis
NICE! 69.141.199.227 08:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)KM
[edit] MSAs not included in the CSA
The Norwich-New London-Westerly (CT-RI) MSA is rougly 250,000 yet not including in the "MSAs not included in the CSA" section. This should absolutely be in there. Perhaps someone can do a quick look through that list and piece it together better.
There have to be others besides the one I just mentioned -- Cape Cod comes to mind as a possible area not included (if you're going to include areas that are under 100k, you will need to include a lot more I'm sure..) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.148.25.149 (talk) 03:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
The article neither defines nor links to definitions of the terms "MSA" and "CSA." What do these mean? Korossyl 06:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
