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This is misleading to most people. The US census counts the suburbs as urban. I don't believe most people referring to urban areas are referring to people in th
by ConceitedCode 7y ago
This is misleading to most people. The US census counts the suburbs as urban. I don't believe most people referring to urban areas are referring to people in the suburbs.
"To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,500 people, at least 1,500 of which reside outside institutional group quarters."
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/about/faq/2010-urban-area-faq.html#par_textimage_1 https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/about/faq/...
- ghaff 7y agoAs I tell people, together with my two neighbors I live in the middle of about 100 acres on a road with no sidewalks. This counts as urban as far as the census is concerned. The US is big. That the above is urban makes sense in the context that I'm only about a 15 minute drive from a small city and am only about an hour drive from a large city. There are lots of places in the US that are 100+ miles from the nearest Walmart.
- bitwize 7y agoBan suburbs, too. They basically mainly exist to give white people a place to move to, to get away from pesky minorities.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoFirst, not everything is about race. Some people may move to the suburbs to get away from minorities, but not everyone does. Second, you want to force us to live the way you think we should? Feel free to get lost.