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[Publius]

Originally Posted by 7960

have you ever been to atlanta or denver or NY or just about any city in california?

boston is tiny.

Boston is MUCH more compressed than even Dallas, but is still pretty small by comparison. The problem with Dallas is that we don't really have one centralized area with high rise buildings like most other major cities. When I was on campus at University of Dallas (situated atop high ground northwest of downtown Dallas) I could see 4 distinct "downtown" type areas on the horizon: downtown Dallas, uptown Dallas, North Dallas, and Las Colinas..

[WickedLou9]

I actually like the fact that Boston is smaller. It makes it a much better city to walk around. It's much less intimidating. NYC is so huge that it's scary. I hate going there. It's maybe the one thing that Philly has going for it as well. Philly is small and walkable , as long as you aren't walking through the bad areas

[Ardentfrost]

Originally Posted by Publius

Boston is MUCH more compressed than even Dallas, but is still pretty small by comparison. The problem with Dallas is that we don't really have one centralized area with high rise buildings like most other major cities. When I was on campus at University of Dallas (situated atop high ground northwest of downtown Dallas) I could see 4 distinct "downtown" type areas on the horizon: downtown Dallas, uptown Dallas, North Dallas, and Las Colinas..

Atlanta is like that. When I drive into work I can see the main part of the city that everyone thinks about when you say "Atlanta" off to my left, but behind me is another patch of high rise buildings in Buckhead. Then there are various patches of high rises near the perimeter. Metro Atlanta is huge land area-wise. But only a scant 5 million people live here (compared to th 18 million in NYC) and a measly 500k of that actually live in the city limits. Actually, I guess that's similar to Boston's population (5 mil in the metro, 500k in the city) except Atlanta's land area is roughly twice as big.