Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors

@BRuddTweets

Appalachia/Philly/Cincy. Ohio U/U of Delaware Biden School of Public Policy Opinions are my own.

Northside, Cincinnati, OH Katılım Nisan 2009

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·28 Şub

If you take the 30 largest metros in the US and draw a 100 mile radius around their downtown, which has the largest population? (thread) 1. Philadelphia - 30 million 2. NYC - 29.6 mil 3. Riverside - 20.9 mil 4. LA - 19.4 mil 5. Baltimore - 16.5 mil

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·4d

@camhardy513 @U_arctos Not sure. Don't know the details of any agreement. Out of my wheelhouse.

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Cam Hardy🚍🚍🚌🚏@camhardy513·4d

@BRuddTweets @U_arctos I saw them and got confused. Furthermore shouldn't that sign have a city decal on it? I know its different from the rest of our city

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bear 🚲@U_arctos·5d

saw two guys on bikes/working out of a tesla hanging these up on wasson way today. not sure they're legit lol

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·4d

@photoconceptart @camhardy513 @U_arctos Yea, it's legit

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Christopher Wyatt@photoconceptart·4d

@BRuddTweets @camhardy513 @U_arctos Sounds legit?

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·5d

@kaefair There might be cultural influence, but they aren't in Appalachia. There's a big difference there. And Middletown has an industrial influence and history but most people there live a fundamentally suburban existence. It's a suburb. Not a wealthy or privileged one. But a suburb.

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·5d

@kaefair Ok, but as someone who actually grew up in Appalachia, there are A LOT of places that are a part of the diaspora. Baltimore, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Detroit, Cincinnati, Akron, Harrisburg, Reading, Richmond, Buffalo, Rochester, Atlanta, Raleigh, Lexington, Nashville.

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Kaeleigh@kaefair·5d

*taps the mic* Middletown is a 45 min drive from downtown Cincinnati and also a part of the Appalachian diaspora JD Vance is walking toe fungus but that doesn’t invalidate the important cultural influence of the diaspora in these towns

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·5d

@aaronzhangxyz @Eric_Erins Philly was literally the second largest city in the British empire at one point. It would be bigger if it wasn't competing regionally with so many other large cities.

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Aaron Zhang 🚅🚃🚎@aaronzhangxyz·5d

@Eric_Erins Milwaukee is nice (except for their sports teams) but Philly is only big because it's between NYC and Washington DC. Milwaukee is 2 hours in the wrong direction.

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Midwest Antiquarian@Eric_Erins·5d

Idg why internet urbanists aren’t more into Milwaukee. You’d think being so close to Chicago would win it points in the way Philadelphia does with its proximity to NYC

Nate Vomhof@natevomhof

The density of Milwaukee’s Eastside and downtown is rather impressive from this angle.

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·5d

@camhardy513 @U_arctos I saw them today too. They were wearing Wasson Way polos. wassonway.org/wasson-way-saf…

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Cam Hardy🚍🚍🚌🚏@camhardy513·5d

@U_arctos Need to be taken down thats not city signage lol

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·6d

@nickythegood @Lily628 Weird to ignore that there are tons of us who live in the city and have kids.

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Nicky The Good@nickythegood·6d

@Lily628 If you’re in the burbs, you probably have kids. That’s the context here. You are doing none of those things

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Nicky The Good@nickythegood·6d

Weekends don’t exist once you’re in the burbs because kids dominate. It’s just time. Days don’t matter. However, 35 year olds who still live in the city, getting hammered at bars are just as confusing. Not that it doesn’t sound like fun, but your friends aren’t at the bar with you, they’re in the burbs at soccer practice, with me. So who are you getting hammered with?

Murray Hill Guy@MurrayHillGuy1

How do people in the suburbs genuinely look forward to Friday night on the couch, Saturday morning at Costco, and call that a weekend? Like you really moved out of the city just to LARP as your parents at 34?

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·18 Mar

@Flyingclameleon @BruneElections Ohio has 14 four year public main campuses vs 16 in NC. But many Ohio universities have branch campuses. Adding those raises the count to 37. NC doesn't have a comparable branch campus system.

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Flyingclam@Flyingclameleon·17 Mar

@BruneElections Am I crazy or doesn't Ohio not have a lot of universities. It's not like here in North Carolina where we have an insane amount of them Seems like a non-issue

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Ryan Brune@BruneElections·17 Mar

Microtarget this as an ad in the 6 counties with a town solely dependent on a university to exist.

Justin Barasky@JustinBarasky

VIDEO: Vivek Ramaswamy says we have too many universities in Ohio and he wants to get rid of some.

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·28 Şub

@RayBarbieri @JoshJunker2 Not sad. Great! Cities grow and change and that's a good thing!

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Raybeez@RayBarbieri·28 Şub

@BRuddTweets @JoshJunker2 I stand corrected....when I visited the Carew Tower(?) was the tallest. They said that tidbit on the tour. Sad to hear it has been surpassed

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Joshua Junker@JoshJunker2·27 Şub

One thing to keep in mind about Downtown Cincinnati is according to many sources, it was one of the few Midwest Downtowns to remain healthy post 1965... until 1991. Downtown Toledo and Downtown Cincinnati both had 45k-ish workers in 1970. In 1990 Toledo had 25k, Cinti had 90k!!

Joshua Junker@JoshJunker2

Downtown Cincinnati. April 1986. Note the parking lots and garages filled to the seams with cars parked. Kenton County Library Collection

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·28 Şub

@RayBarbieri @JoshJunker2 The tallest building in Buffalo was built in 1970. The tallest building in Minneapolis was built in 1973, same for Milwaukee. 1986 for Birmingham, AL.

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·28 Şub

@RayBarbieri @JoshJunker2 Huh? Great American Tower was finished in 2011.

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·26 Şub

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Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板@BaldingsWorld

There is one major reason the US has no trains and then a number of smaller reasons. The big reason is pure economic geography. Trains and high speed trains work best at "mid range journeys" between dense population centers. Think roughly 150-400 miles. Anything shorter or longer and there are better options for travelers. What doesn't the US have much of? Dense networks of large cities 150-400 miles apart. A little on the eastern seaboard but beyond that you just don't have the economic geography. The second layer to this question is that building new trains are just prohibitively expensive. There are many reasons it is prohibitively expensive but leave that aside for the moment, it is absurdly expensive. For the amount of money California plans to spend just to build the Los Angeles to San Francisco rail link (NOT ongoing operations or upkeep), you could make air travel between the two cities free in perpetuity just from the interest of what you would spend to build rail. It just doesn't make any sense and I love trains but there is a reason.

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·22 Şub

@JonahA59 Amazing. You did pretty well I'd say. Curious how you decided which Cincinnati area municipalities should be grouped?

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Jonah Maps@JonahA59·22 Şub

@BRuddTweets I have less experience with Ohio myself so open to suggestions.

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Jonah Maps@JonahA59·21 Şub

I’ve made Municipal Consolidation maps of all 50 states where all land is incorporated into municipalities and all must be >50K people & contiguous. No existing ones are split, only merged and grown. Counties are eliminated. My IL now has 13 over 100K.

Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore

How many cities with a population of 100k+ does each state have?

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·22 Şub

Metro areas with 500k+ in population are even more concentrated.

Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets

Comparing "cities" across states is useless because they have different definitions. The MSA map looks different.

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Max@maxtmcc·21 Şub

real Censusheads know that US city populations are basically fake. Is the number of people who live within the boundaries seen below the same as the number of people who live in “Houston”? Obviously not.

Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore

How many cities with a population of 100k+ does each state have?

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·22 Şub

@rsomething But that's why Combined Statistical areas exist. The Bay Area actually has 8 distinct MSAs in its CSA and extends from Sonoma to Santa Clara.

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Brandon wants 1 million more neighbors@BRuddTweets·22 Şub

@rsomething Well, arbitrary is the wrong word. They are all based on the same, very exact criteria and they are created specifically for statistical comparison. It's not arbitrary at all. But it's not perfect, and your example is illustrative of its limitations.

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