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TheOvy t1_j16i6zd wrote

There's actually 900k 100k more people in the DC metro area than the Philly metro. It's sad to see us come up short in ways where we should otherwise be competitive.

edit: misread the wiki, accidentally compared Philly's urban population vs. DC's metro area population. DC metro is still more populous, but by a much smaller number! Thanks to u/lame_grapefruit for the correction.

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lame_grapefruit t1_j16s0px wrote

That’s just not true? It seems like the difference is about 100k

Source: Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_metropolitan_areas

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TheOvy t1_j16tyl0 wrote

I stand corrected. Where the DC Metropolitan Area wiki page lists the metro population first, the Philly Metropolitan Area wiki page lists urban population first, which is a smaller number. My mistake!

Full rankings can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area

Still, DC area population is ranked 6th, Philly is 7th.

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Wonderful-Speaker-32 t1_j17xhsa wrote

If you compare the DC-Baltimore CSA to the Philly-Wilmington CSA, then we're larger by more than 2.5million. And honestly comparing CSAs is probably the move, because all 9.9 million of us were snuffed out of a stadium, not just the DC-area ones. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area

But honestly, I'd be even madder if I was in Chicago. 4th largest CSA and 3rd largest MSA, and there isn't even a good option nearby.

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