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Originally Posted by ue
Toronto and Hamilton are not Minneapolis and St Paul or San Francisco and San Jose. A metropolitan area is a geographic region with a primary city and nearby cities (suburbs) that are an extension of the city or form a polycentric, but single, region, due to interconnectivity. By your argument New York and Philly, Chicago and Milwaukee, and Los Angeles and San Diego are one of the same.
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SF and San Jose is actually a very good comparison to Toronto and Hamilton.
San Jose has its own MSA separate from the SF MSA, and the two cities are a similar distance from one another (Hamilton is slightly closer to Toronto).