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lazidetoday at 8:03 AM1 replyview on HN

‘Smaller cities’ in the US are what most of the world calls ‘rural’.

Rural in the US is truly remote, not just ‘has farmland’.


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smt88today at 9:01 AM

> ‘Smaller cities’ in the US are what most of the world calls ‘rural’.

What? No it's not. In the study I linked and also for most people's purposes, "smaller city" is something like Milwaukee or Pittsburgh, a place with an urban center, a real downtown, some skyscrapers, and probably a few corporate headquarters.

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