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just to throw some figures at you about how big st. louis is or isn't: > As of the 2010 census, the population was 319,294, and a 2012 estimate put the population at 318,172,[6] making it the 58th-largest U.S. city in 2012. The metropolitan St. Louis area, known as Greater St. Louis (CSA), is the 19th-largest metropolitan area in the United States with a population of 2,900,605. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
And I'll be the annoying St. Louisan who feels compelled to put these numbers into some context for what feels like the billionth time. St. Louis City is entirely independent from the surrounding St. Louis County and covers an exceptionally small area by the standards of most big cities (~66 sq/mi). Some similar cities have addressed this by merging with their surrounding county (Indianapolis, for example, which is a…
Re: Why I'm Moving My Business From San Francisco To St. Louis
#211I wasn't trying to say anything bad about st. louis, just trying to give him a scale to compare to, since he said he had no idea about the size of st. louis. Oakland and SF are actually similarly sized geographically; Oakland's only got ~55 sq. miles of land and SF has ~49 sq miles of land. And each is surrounded by smaller separate cities that should probably just merge into the larger city already.