Population milestone

[CookieMonster]

Geez I live in a small town. Only about 65,000. There's only about 3 million total in Oregon (97,000 sq miles).

you think you live in a small town....

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

I'm right in the heart of the LA Basin. I think I have more people between me and my office than all of Tasmania.

 

[Michael Chris]

Well I'm in the Albuquerque metro (though technically in the separate city of Rio Rancho, but still very much connected with the city) which is over 500,000. The actual city of Albuquerque has about 530,000 or so according to recent estimates. The metro is more like 840,000 (but that's somewhat of an exaggeration). The city is about 300 years old.

Awesomely wonderful place to live.

Rio Rancho itself is about 80,000 or so this year.

 

[AdAstra]

Just under 500K.

According to the latest info, Antwerp has 472,071 inhabitants. If you include the urban area surrounding it, you'd get about 1.1 million (or a tenth of the population of Belgium). With a history going back to about 250 AD. We're slow growers.

 

[Hermiod]

Greater London has a population of 7.3m.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Huntington Beach has 201,993 people.
Orange County has 3,121,251 people.
California has 38,049,462 people.

 

[Squiggy]

Centreville, VA: 48,000
Fairfax County, Virginia: 1,077,000
Washington DC Metropolitan Area: 5,306,565

 

[RJDiogenes]

Just under 100,000 here.

 

[MIB]

About 192,000 where I live and dropping every year.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

Toronto has a population of 2.5 million, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is about 5.5 million. The GTA is contiguous city with pretty much artificial borders, people live in one area and work in another and play somewhere else.

The experience of living here is, it's a heck of a trip to see some countryside (exagerating slightly, but a lot longer than living in a small town with a cow in the fields down the street) and the politicians are always at each other's throats, from one linked region to the other, from one level of government to the other. Developers have free reign because local neighbourhoods have no clout, they're like .1% of the voting population.

Other than that, I don't feel differently about where I live, compared to living in a small town. I know my neighbours, I live, work, shop and play within a few blocks, my world is compact. You could lift it up and move it to an empty space 50 kilometers away and it wouldn't change my life.

 

[Holdfast]

I think we're about 150k here. I don't like big cities all that much. This size is small enough to feel like you have the city's central layout in your head and be able to walk around it fairly easily of an evening after a few drinks. But it's also big enough to be relatively anonymous when you want and to have enough local amenities for comfort. Wouldn't move anywhere else, actually!

 

[Canadave]

Yes.

The City of Ottawa has a population of about 1.1 million, but that includes a lot of rural areas and small towns. The actual urban area has a population around 800 000. Neither of those includes a good chunk of urbanization on the other side of the river, which would bring the total to 1.4 million.

So, between 800 000 and 1.4 million, depending on how you measure.

Actually, the 1.1 million figure is for Ottawa-Gatineau. To get 1.4 million, you'd really have to start reaching and pull in places like Renfrew and Kingston. You're right about the City of Ottawa itself, though, it was a shade over 800,000 in the 2006 census.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

If I remember correctly, Hull has around 250,000 people in the city itself, and another 150,000 - 250,000 in the towns and villages surrounding it. I think that's plenty big enough, I don't think I'd want to live anywhere bigger.

 

[Miss Chicken]

said by me
In my state a town becomes a city when it is still quite small. We have 5 cities in Tasmania - Hobart, Glenorchy and Clarence make up Greater Hobart, Launceston (population about 70,000) and Burnie (population about 18,000).

I have to correct myself here. There are actually 6 cities in Tasmania. The other is Devonport with a population of about 21,000. I think that my fellow Tasmania Unimatrix7 would agree with me (if he pops into this thread) that Burnie and Devonport are both dumps.

 

[Captain Ice]

1,552,259 in the city itself
4,579,427 in the metropolitan area.

We are the largest city in the Mountain Time Zone, as well as the largest state capitol by population in the US. We are also the second largest city in the Western United States.

 

[Squiggy]

Suck it Boulder!

 

[Emher]

Nope, but Swedish city of Gothenburg (or Gööttthhheebooorrrrrrggg as its pronounced locally) reached that very same limit a few weeks ago. The countries biggest city is Stockholm, that with suburbs and all house about 1.3 million people.

 

[Rii]

When you crack seven digits we'll build a bridge, promise!

 

[ria 75]

Oh yes and 90% Caucasian. My friend at the grocery store calls himself the pepper flake in the glass of milk.

Ha ha, that's cute.

 

[Cayla]

The metropolitian area here has a population of 2,096,471. The small suburb where I live has a population of 11,500.