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LittleLight85 t1_j496iug wrote

>it's always annoyed me that the south east is usually what outsiders think of when they think PA.

As a SEPA resident, it’s what I think of too. Sorry but the rest of the state might as well be a completely different state to me lol.

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cvfdrghhhhhhhh t1_j49m67w wrote

Yep. People think of Philly and Pittsburgh because the cities and inner-ring suburbs are where the vast majority of the people in PA live. You can be annoyed at it all you want, but that’s reality.

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GraffitiTavern t1_j4d4xlh wrote

Gonna respond to this one because I see this repeated a lot, but that is not in fact reality.

Philly: 1.576 million

Bucks: 646k

Montco: 860k

Delco: 576k

Chester: 534k

Allegheny(Pittsburgh): 1.250 million

Total: 5.442 million / 13 million total state population = less than half

(even if you threw in the Lehigh Valley with 700k people it'd still be less than half)

I don't even care that people assume PA is like SEPA btw, I like Philly, it is still the most populated region of the state and has by far our largest city as well as largest media presence and economy. The rest of the state isn't just unpopulated tho, and that's a claim I see repeated quite often. The other subregions aren't especially similar to one another either, even the ARC parts, which is one place I will disagree with the OP.

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TwoMuchIsJustEnough t1_j4l8uoi wrote

Pittsburgh MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) is 2.37 million which brings the total Pittsburgh and Philadelphia pop to approximately half that of the state.

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