Thanks for backing me up Dave, I knew I wasn't crazy LOL.You can also see like I said that all the population lives pretty much in a straight line from Grand rapids to Saginaw South.
What do these areas have in Common? Most are all within 3 hours or a little over, of either CP or SFGAM. Interesting eh?
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PointMan said:
... Due to the penisular nature of Michigan, no one drives through it on the way to somewhere else Also, most of Michigan is colder than Ohio, so the season is shorter.
Well not completely True, take a drive across the UP on M-28 sometime, every trucker, post NAFTA, and no customs inspection, in Quebec has figured that it is the prefered route vs. around Lake Sup. to get to Winnipeg. And Chicago-Eastern Canada is becoming an ever important route. So on a North American instead of just US Standpoint you are wrong.
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1. nearly all of the metro areas in the midwest are growing. (that means people are moving into the area). While most of the cities pop is shrinking. (which means people are moving into the suburbs)
2 Detroits metro area pop is much bigger than cleveland's (which is clearly the largest metro area in ohio) 5 million to 3 million seems about right
3 Columbus' city population only grew over the past decade because they have been annexing their suburbs to be the largest city in ohio in area and population
4 Ohio is a great place to live. Great schools, museums, entertainment (Cleveland has the largest theater district outside of NY in square footage or some stat), state parks, lakes, rivers and open space. But it really is just an average type of place unlike the big cities of the east coast or west coast. Or the amazing sceanery in the Rockie Mountains or sw desert or even the oceans.
5 Ohio has three great parks because of the population within and located near to it. While i can't give you hard numbers, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Lousville, Wheeling, and Lexington are all within striking distance to one of the big parks. Plus the 10 million+ within the state. There are enough people near by to support it. Plus once a park gains the stature of CP it will have a larger market.
I would think that there is actually more room in the state for more parks. At this point it would only help create a nexsus of coaster bliss. People would travel to Ohio just to sample the rides.
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coo man chu said:
This is astonishing! Considering the biggest city in Canada is little over 2 million, and you Americans have multiple million-population cities!-----------------
For a strange reason that makes me proud to be squashed in here...haha.:)
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Also cities like Indy and Columbus are based on Sprawl. They are just "younger" cities than places like Cleveland,Detroit and Chicago. There was a lot of movement from the center to the suburbs in those older cities, while the newer cities have now just started to grow and never had much of an urban core. Sprawl stinks.
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