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Originally Posted by Capsicum
What about the West coast? Does something like "suburbs of Oakland" within the Bay Area count?
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I think of the big Bay Area cities as sharing the same suburbs, rather than having suburbs that are exclusively their own, though of course those suburbs that are closer to certain cities send more commuters to those cities.
Emeryville, San Rafael, and Berkeley for example, are suburbs of SF and Oakland, though you could also call them suburbs of SJ and not really be wrong. San Mateo is a suburb of SF, but also of Oakland and SJ technically (and in turn acts as kind of a regional center for San Mateo County). Morgan Hill and Campbell are suburbs of SJ, but just like the others you could call them suburbs of SF/Oakland and technically be correct.
The Bay Area is polycentric area, and I guess you could say it has tiered CBDs. You have SF at the top, with Oakland and SJ also at the top but still lower down the chain in overall importance/influence (you could rank SF as 1a and SJ/Oak as 1b or something). Then you have the secondary suburban centers like San Mateo, Berkeley, Redwood City, Palo Alto, etc. And then you have all of the 100% suburban areas that are sending commuters all over the place to these different CBDs.