I don’t know why you are saying this. I know areas that are officially part of NYC that are less developed than areas around the city. The line of where a city ends and begins is a government thing not a reflection of where people really live. Just compare say Jersey City to anyone on Staten Island.
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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 months agoMaybe, but people want to live in Paris. Not in the urban area.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t compare how a random us city works with Paris. Different cities work in different ways and the people who live there don’t necessarily see things the same way.
Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The urban area is what people refer to as Paris. A good comparison is Los Angeles. Lots of people say they “live in LA” but in fact live in Santa Monica or Long Beach or Pasadena or any of a million other suburbs that together form the Los Angeles urban area.
When people say they live in Paris, 99% of the time they’re not talking about the arbitrary municipal boundaries; they’re talking about the urban area.
When people say they live in LA, 99% of the time they’re talking about the urban area.
When people say they live in Buenos Aires, 99% of the time they’re talking about the urban area.
When people say they live in Tokyo, 99% of the time they’re talking about the urban area.
“Urban area” is simply a term meant to capture what people mean when they refer to a city, unrestricted by the arbitrariness of municipal boundaries.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Those aren’t good comparisons though. You cannot compare cities between them because that’s not how cities work.