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thfuran · 2023-10-22 05:53:20

They can. That doesn't mean any specific small city is likely to.

NikkiA | karma 1999 | avg karma 1.21 · | 2024-01-20 20:13:49

Not unless your city has a catchment area population of about 87.6 million they don't.

ipaddr | karma 6901 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2022-03-18 14:04:54

Everyone can with smaller cities. Living in a megacity and expecting it is the problem.

bombcar | karma 42761 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2023-05-19 00:04:55

I would say that you'd be hard pressed to find a city of any moderate size where it was not possible. Some would be better than others, but it's possible nearly everywhere.

pmorici | karma 12372 | avg karma 3.51 · | 2018-06-28 08:45:40

A small to medium sized city is not the suburbs.

OneFamousGrouse | karma 32 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2019-05-16 13:53:12+00:00

This is unfortunately not yet true everywhere, especially outside the big cities.

hueving | karma 14605 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2016-10-04 11:24:33+00:00

No, not in smaller cities (i.e. The one with a 50k pop I lived in).

TheCoelacanth | karma 7988 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2018-04-17 16:05:39+00:00

Many states have populations smaller than a single medium-sized city, so that shouldn't be that surprising.

stonogo | karma 5871 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2022-04-26 10:39:05

No, it's affecting smaller cities too, as the article explicitly addresses.

websap | karma 748 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2022-11-30 00:15:00

Nope, not if you live in any major city.

TheCleric | karma 1266 | avg karma 2.11 · | 2023-08-20 10:24:25

Sure they can. US cities are not uniform. For example Helsinki has roughly the population and metro density of Providence, Rhode Island. Finland may not have a New York or San Francisco, but that doesn't mean there's not good comparisons anywhere in the US.

djrogers | karma 14701 | avg karma 4.27 · | 2016-04-28 23:41:00+00:00

We are talking about cities - not the entire country.

fwefwwfe | karma 59 | avg karma 0.97 · | 2017-03-28 20:08:28

Does that not apply to all major metropolitan areas?

nightski | karma 6955 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2023-10-11 11:14:24

Is there any evidence this works in anything but the largest cities? Because America is built on small towns/cities [1].

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/05/america-a-nat...

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yeukhon | karma 4894 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2016-08-08 16:04:19+00:00

I am not saying it can't, but I am saying many could turn out to be cultural towns rather than big cities like NYC or London.

And to the person who downvoted me: just so you know, I rarely care about this, but if you downvote on a wild guess, you need to double check your interpretation of "wild guess."

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pyb | karma 3098 | avg karma 3.6 · | 2022-12-04 08:25:32

We're not talking about cities here.

Semiapies | karma 5867 | avg karma 1.94 · | 2010-03-31 12:28:03

They certainly can include multiple municipalities.

tptacek | karma 394296 | avg karma 6.04 · | 2014-12-07 20:25:11

Sure. It's just that very few of them are between the 10 largest US cities:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713324

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twblalock | karma 18047 | avg karma 4.2 · | 2015-08-22 18:02:24

This isn't a convincing argument because not every city is like yours.

so33 | karma 393 | avg karma 3.42 · | 2018-03-09 00:29:32

This is not a problem innate to cities, and it’s not even endemic within cities that have these problems.