Quote Originally Posted by iheartthed View Post
Philadelphia is just as "hemmed in" by other MSAs as Detroit but managed to maintain 6th place when at one point not long ago it was roughly the same size as Metro Detroit. Boston, another similarly "hemmed in" metro, was smaller than Detroit in 1950 and today is larger than Metro Detroit.
That's because everyone in Philadelphia and Boston actually commute into Philadelphia and Boston proper for work, versus the commuting clusterfuck we have in Detroit.