Albuquerque's bigger than Kansas City, Atlanta or Miami!

[shelbyGT]

You really should combine Kansas City KS and Kansas City MO, to be fair to us all in KC. And, I understand that this doesn't take suburbs into account, so anyone got a link to a table that does take the burbs into account? I know that KC (both KS and MO) has somewhere like 2 to 3 million with the burbs included.

That's biased though, only taking KCMO... BAH humbug!!!

[Capmaster]

You really should combine Kansas City KS and Kansas City MO, to be fair to us all in KC. And, I understand that this doesn't take suburbs into account, so anyone got a link to a table that does take the burbs into account? I know that KC (both KS and MO) has somewhere like 2 to 3 million with the burbs included.

That's biased though, only taking KCMO... BAH humbug!!!

Didn't mean to slight KC. I like the area and wish I had a dollar for every night I've spent in Overpriced Park Sitting on Metcalf at rush hour, battling drivers on 435, eating at Stephenson's Apple Farm, KC Masterpiece, Houston's or Jess & Jim's, going to a Royals game I like KC and you're right, with the metro area included it is way bigger than Albuquerque. Maybe that's why Albuquerque is larger in the city limits - because we have no suburbs and anyone who lives in the town probably lives within the city limits. Kansas city has Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, etc. - all very large communities, some over 100,000 like OP and Olathe.

We have close-in towns that some people commute in from, like Los Lunas, Belen, Moriarty, Edgewood, Placitas, Cedar Crest, but they're not really suburbs and are pretty small little piss-ant towns except for Belen maybe.

That's why I was so surprised when I found that census table. I've been to KC and know it's massive. I had to re-read the table a few times, and felt compelled to post it because it goes against intuition.

Same with Atlanta. It's got an enormous metro area when you include Cobb county and the near-outlying towns. Waaayyyyyy bigger than us with those included. But the city proper - a big surprise to me. I would have thought that even within the city limits Atlanta, or Miami for that matter, would have been many multiples of our population.

[Guest]

KC is a good town. Of all of the places I've been, KC is the easiest place to get laid. I had a good two years there.

[shoozleboy]

We have a similar problem with the heat here, but our water supply is getting low because most of it goes out to CA along with most of the power from the Hoover Dam.

Whoa - let's set the record straight here! If your water goes to CA, it's going to Southern CA. Those of us here in the north treat the south (CA, let's not start another Civil War) like they're another state. We don't have a water problem in the north. A lot of our water is sent to the south as well.

That's so Jay Leno can wash all of his cars!