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Walnut2001 t1_j2syvyn wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Burlington had 5 murders in 2022, the most since 1960 by BoringAccountName78

I don’t think you have ever been to a real city if you think Burlington is a “major city” most towns have higher population than our “city”

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[deleted] t1_j2t4a3r wrote

I lived in Manhattan for 10 years but tell me more about cities.

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Walnut2001 t1_j2t5h1p wrote

Then why tf would u call Burlington a major city 😂

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j2ucy8p wrote

I got downvoted a bunch a while back for pointing this out. The UN and a bunch of other international organizations got together to define what a “city” was. The general consensus was at least 50k people. Burlington doesn’t even qualify.

>The degree of urbanization is a modern metric to help define what comprises a city: "a population of at least 50,000 inhabitants in contiguous dense grid cells (>1,500 inhabitants per square kilometer)".[19] This metric was "devised over years by the European Commission, OECD, World Bank and others, and endorsed in March [2021] by the United Nations... largely for the purpose of international statistical comparison".[20]

https://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/how-do-we-define-cities-towns-and-rural-areas

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[deleted] t1_j2t868n wrote

Is it not a major city of Vermont?

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Walnut2001 t1_j2t8mlx wrote

Yeah but that’s not the point. You were trying to compare the “5 murders this year” statistic to actually major cities. NYC has a population of 8.468 million, Burlington’s population is 44,781...

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[deleted] t1_j2tb9ui wrote

There were only 5 people killed there.

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