Quote Originally Posted by 313WX View Post
The US Census Bureau determines MSAs based on commuting patterns in / out of the core city of the region. Since so few people in the region commute into the city proper for work, we get short changed in how our metro area is defined. They also dont account for people who live in close proximity to the core city but are outside the US.

Thus, to my point, it's an extremely flawed way to look at Metro Detroit. The wikipedia page below is more accurate...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%E2%80%93Windsor
You feel it's "extremely flawed" to rigorously apply the same standards to all metros to derive a common metric.

Rather, you prefer the "metric" of an editable Wikipedia narrative article, Yeah, that makes sense...