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Originally Posted by dktshb
San Bernardino is 70 miles from Los Angeles and Riverside is 63. It would only make sense that if you want to include the IE now in your comparison of Los Angeles and Houston you would throw in Houston's equally far flung cities and towns and then compare the two keeping in mind all points in between as well. Another thing to keep in mind is that Riverside has a density equal to Houston.
I imagine a drive north up the 45 to Huntsville from Houston (70 miles) or west on the 10 to Bernardo (70 miles) is nothing like the drive east on the 10 from Los Angeles to San Bernardino.
Furthermore, the LA Basin from Downtown to Venice Beach "screams" Los Angeles' unique identity pretty well.
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The IE wouldn't exist as is without being close to LA, who cares how far it is from LA? I used to live in Rialto. Do you think that place would exist as anything but a truck stop/rest stop if it wasn't a place priced out people from LA moved to?
There is continuous/contiguous urban/suburban development from the coast and probably as much as 75-90 miles inland, with only slight dropoffs in population density, so it really doesn't matter how far away they are. It has its fair share of 100,000+ cities, so it's hardly just a minor outlying area. Ontario airport is owned by LA and they get LA media.
And it's not like LA has a Manhattan district or is like Washington DC as the unique center of the region. That's why it's fair to include pretty much everything in SoCal north of San Diego County, West Joshua Tree and south of Kern County as part of Greater LA.