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View Poll Results: Which Atlanta area city will become Atlanta's "-" city?
Marietta 5 7.81%
Decatur 1 1.56%
Duluth 0 0%
Sandy Springs 23 35.94%
Smyrna 0 0%
Dunwoody 1 1.56%
Norcross 0 0%
Athens 4 6.25%
Roswell 0 0%
Alpharetta 3 4.69%
Other: WHO? 0 0%
None will EVER have enough influence to hyphenate the Metro area 27 42.19%
Voters: 64. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-09-2014, 12:09 AM
 
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There are some cities that have a significant influence from another city in the area so greatly that they can sometimes either be known as (insert city) area OR (insert city-insert city) area...

Here are a few examples of what I mean...


Seattle...
can also be the Seattle-Tacoma Area, aka SeaTac

Dallas...
also the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, aka DFW

Minneapolis...
also the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, aka Twin Cities

San Francisco...
also the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area, also the San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland Area, aka the Bay area

Miami...
sometimes the Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area, aka South Florida

Washington...
sometimes the Washington-Baltimore Area, aka the DMV

Los Angeles...
sometimes the Los Angeles-Orange County Area, or Los Angeles-Long Beach Area, and so on...

New York City...
seldomly, but possibly the New York City-Newark Area, aka The Tri State Area


Kansas City/Kansas City
Philadelphia/Camden



Is there any chance that Atlanta would ever have competition for influence from another nearby city like the cities listed above? The competition doesn't have to be, and most likely won't be equal competition, but neither are those cities above... Tacoma isn't fair competition for Seattle, yet it's large enough to stand alone, have it's own downtown and have enough of an influence to be considered so they call it the SeaTac area... Same with Ft. Worth, Ft. Lauderdale, Oakland, San Jose, St. Paul, Newark, Jersey City, Long Beach, Anaheim, etc.........


Will that ever be the case in Atlanta? IF possible, which nearby city stands the best chance of being that Metro area sharing influential city?
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Old 02-09-2014, 12:26 AM
 
Location: The Greatest city on Earth: City of Atlanta Proper
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Never in 1 million years...exactly.

Atlanta and it's environs will always be "Atlanta". Period.
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Old 02-09-2014, 03:28 AM
 
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Let separate 2 things

Seattle-Tacoma
LA - Long Beach
Miami-Fort Lauderdale


The top group is a major city with a significant suburb, another example Phoenix - Mesa This happens when a suburb grew too big.

From

Dallas - Fort Worth
Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
San Francisco-Oakland


The bottom group are two major cities in one metro area. another example Tampa - St Petersburg This happens with two major city grew into each other.

...........

When Sandy Spring hit a 100,000 it going to have similar relation as the first group with Atlanta. So I voted Sandy Spring,

The second group relation is not possible. There would already have to be a Charlotte, or Birmingham level city with in 35 miles or less. That grew up with Atlanta and not because of Atlanta.
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Old 02-09-2014, 08:42 AM
 
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if buckhead wasn't in the city limits, i'd say atlanta-buckhead. that being said, there are a lot of medium sized cities directly around metro atlanta but none are as large or important as atlanta... we aren't dallas-fort worth and we won't ever have that dual moniker.
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Old 02-09-2014, 12:15 PM
 
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Originally Posted by chiatldal View Post
Let separate 2 things

Seattle-Tacoma
LA - Long Beach
Miami-Fort Lauderdale


The top group is a major city with a significant suburb, another example Phoenix - Mesa This happens when a suburb grew too big..
I see your point and agree...

However, this isn't true of Sea-Tac. Tacoma is not a suburb of Seattle that grew because of Seattle. Tacoma is a separate major city that grew WITH Seattle. From Seattle's beginnings, Tacoma was the competition. Just Seattle outdid Tacoma, but if it were the other way around, we would know the area as Tac-Sea, Tacoma-Seattle area...
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Old 02-09-2014, 12:43 PM
 
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Decatur has pretty good name recognition outside of the region, but the area is so fractured, there are too many similar suburbs of the same size for any of them to stand out. We saw it during the snowstorm; 10+ counties, 50+ cities, everybody calls it "Atlanta."
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Old 02-09-2014, 01:58 PM
 
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Decatur has pretty good name recognition outside of the region, but the area is so fractured, there are too many similar suburbs of the same size for any of them to stand out. We saw it during the snowstorm; 10+ counties, 50+ cities, everybody calls it "Atlanta."
POINT
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Old 02-09-2014, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Well Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is already the actual name of the Atlanta MSA, so I'd say those two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta...atistical_Area
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Old 02-09-2014, 02:08 PM
 
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Well Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is already the actual name of the Atlanta MSA, so I'd say those two.

Atlanta metropolitan area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

LOL... Cheater
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Old 02-09-2014, 04:52 PM
 
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Originally Posted by chiatldal View Post
Let separate 2 things

Seattle-Tacoma
LA - Long Beach
Miami-Fort Lauderdale


The top group is a major city with a significant suburb, another example Phoenix - Mesa This happens when a suburb grew too big.

From

Dallas - Fort Worth
Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
San Francisco-Oakland


The bottom group are two major cities in one metro area. another example Tampa - St Petersburg This happens with two major city grew into each other.

...........

When Sandy Spring hit a 100,000 it going to have similar relation as the first group with Atlanta. So I voted Sandy Spring,

The second group relation is not possible. There would already have to be a Charlotte, or Birmingham level city with in 35 miles or less. That grew up with Atlanta and not because of Atlanta.

I would say that Ft Lauderdale is a bit more than an overgrown suburb and would better fit into the second group. Ft Lauderdale metro already had a population of over 1 million by the time it was merged with Miami and West Palm Beach to form a single metro. South Florida is more of a conurbation where a number of significant urban areas merge, than it is the typical central city-suburb model.


Other than that, I agree that the top list is just census metro designations (principal city/second largest municipality) and noone really thinks of those areas as LA-Long beach or Seattle-Tacoma any more than anyone would think of this as the Atlanta-Sandy Springs area.
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