Best Twin Cities

[NehemiahNesheim]

1. Minneapolis/St. Paul

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2. Dallas/Fort Worth

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3. St. Petersburg/Tampa

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[JackStraw]

Bullshit, it is Gulfport and Biloxi Mississippi!

Nice pictures by the way.

[NehemiahNesheim]

Then Add them to the list.

[Tom Servo]

chicago and milwaukee!!! hell yeah!

[Dac150]

Manhattan and Jersey City

[FrancoRey]

The well-known Denver-Aurora tag-team of doooom!!!

DENVER-
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AURORA-
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[ColDayMan]

Is this TWIN cities or simply primary-secondary cities?

Minenapolis-St. Paul, Tampa-St. Pete, and Dallas-Fort Worth clearly work off each other.

I do not see the same for New York City/Jersey City, Chicago/Milwaukee, or any of those other combos.

[texcolo]

Loredo and Nuevo Loredo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

D/FW is NUMBER ONE BABY!

[Ch.G, Ch.G]

Originally Posted by Dac150

Manhattan and Jersey City

That's more like separated Siamese twin that got the heart and separated Siamese twin that didn't.

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Is this TWIN cities or simply primary-secondary cities?

Minenapolis-St. Paul, Tampa-St. Pete, and Dallas-Fort Worth clearly work off each other.

I do not see the same for New York City/Jersey City, Chicago/Milwaukee, or any of those other combos.

have you ever been to chicago and milwaukee? milwaukee is like a mini-chicago. the layout of the city is even amazingly similar...

[staff]

Malmö and Copenhagen.

[JackStraw]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Is this TWIN cities or simply primary-secondary cities?

Minenapolis-St. Paul, Tampa-St. Pete, and Dallas-Fort Worth clearly work off each other.

I do not see the same for New York City/Jersey City, Chicago/Milwaukee, or any of those other combos.

Exactly. In the case of Denver and Aurora, Aurora is just a sprawling suburb of Denver. In that case ever city has a twin.

[LivingIn622]

Detroit and Windsor canada. Both skylines face each other divided by a river. Both cities have the same type of importants in their country's. Windsor cars, Detroit cars. Windsor top 15 population for canada, Detroit top 15 population for America.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by Ch.G, Ch.G

That's more like separated Siamese twin that got the heart and separated Siamese twin that didn't.

Well here people consider New York, Jersey City, and Newark all the same. Newark International Airport is considered a 'New York Airport', and New York has 2 sports teams that are housed across the Hudson. They both also have the same Port Authority, and New York Port is in New Jersey.

[FrancoRey]

Originally Posted by JackStraw

Exactly. In the case of Denver and Aurora, Aurora is just a sprawling suburb of Denver. In that case ever city has a twin.

Don't be surprised if Aurora becomes a listed city in a full name like Dallas-Ft Worth or Minneapolis/St Paul. The city has well over 300,000 people now...it will reach 400,000 by 2020. Aurora is not just a suburb. You have to go through it to get to Denver's Airport.

Look at Seattle-Tacoma. Or San Fran-Oakland. There are plently of places that weren't traditionally looked at as Twin-City metros but you see them referred to as such more and more. Washington and Baltimore. El Paso and Juárez. They can be called twins now because the size of both cities are so big and they have grown together. Even Aurora is bigger than St. Paul or Tacoma and almost as big as Oakland.

If someone can make an argument for Chicago and Milwaukee than you can't count out Aurora for Denver. If not, then !

[NehemiahNesheim]

Originally Posted by FrancoRey

Don't be surprised if Aurora becomes a listed city in a full name like Dallas-Ft Worth or Minneapolis/St Paul. The city has well over 300,000 people now...it will reach 400,000 by 2020. Aurora is not just a suburb. You have to go through it to get to Denver's Airport.

Look at Seattle-Tacoma. Or San Fran-Oakland. There are plently of places that weren't traditionally looked at as Twin-City metros but you see them referred to as such more and more. Washington and Baltimore. El Paso and Juárez. They can be called twins now because the size of both cities are so big and they have grown together. Even Aurora is bigger than St. Paul or Tacoma and almost as big as Oakland.

If someone can make an argument for Chicago and Milwaukee than you can't count out Aurora for Denver. If not, then !

But The Metro Area of Minneapolis/St. Paul is bigger than that of Denver/Aurora. Although St. Paul pop:287,000, Aurora:297,000

[JackStraw]

Here is the difference. Chicago and Milwakee are both dense urban areas. They both have the central business districts for the regional area. Such as St. Paul and Minneapolis does. Aurora is a huge sprawling suburb of Denver. It does not hold a central business district for the metro or region. No, Colfax ave does not count. It takes up a large land area of 143 sq miles with a population of 297,000. That is 2076 thousand a square mile. That is still considered urban, but nothing compared to an actual City. Denver's metro consist of suburbs that take up large amount of square milage so that the whole metro's population is largly divided into Denver, Aurora, Westminister, Arvada, Littleton, and the few other smaller towns. The actual central area of the metro is in Denver, with real urban areas like Capitol Hill, Five points, Highlands, Uptown, etc. Aurora is mostly suburban housing feeding of the existance of Denver. The same goes with Pheonix and Glendale. They just both arn't "cities" next to each other. St. Paul and St. Petersburg are both considered cities, not suburbs, next to Minneapolis and Tampa respectivly.

[JackStraw]

From wikipeadia-"A former mayor once expressed the somewhat whimsical notion that eventually the area would be called the "Aurora/Denver Metropolitan Area." However, such efforts are somewhat hampered by the lack of a large, historically important central business district in the city, which is largely suburban in character."

This is kind of what I was trying to say in my long rambling post above.

[Tom Servo]

isn't Aurora what the city of South Park is based on?

also, Aurora is a suburb... get over it.

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by staff

Malmö and Copenhagen.

that's a good one! it's like the scandinavian version of san fran and oakland.