NimbusTO t1_ixocxid wrote on November 25, 2022 at 12:30 AM

Connecticut doesn’t have actual cities.

Money_Whisperer OP t1_ixodbte wrote on November 25, 2022 at 12:33 AM

Detroit isn’t a major city anymore, it’s a dying trash pit in the middle of nowhere and yet they have a bunch of teams. Michigan has way lower population density than us.

NimbusTO t1_ixolcrf wrote on November 25, 2022 at 1:47 AM

I don’t think you understand how population works.

Money_Whisperer OP t1_ixomewk wrote on November 25, 2022 at 1:56 AM

The Detroit metropolitan area is considered to be 3913 square miles. The entire state of Connecticut is 5567 square miles.

Detroits population is 4.3 million people. CT is 3.6 million. These are not dramatic differences. People love to give cities these gigantic metro areas to inflate their populations and never afford the same luxury to Hartford. Any other state in the country would, at a bare minimum, include west hartford and east hartford in Hartford’s metro area population statistics but we don’t for some reason.

NimbusTO t1_ixomkt3 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 1:58 AM

You are literally comparing a state to a city, Jesus Christ.

Money_Whisperer OP t1_ixon030 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:01 AM

Yes. The way we determine metro areas in this country is stupid. Houston has a larger “metro area” than the entire state of CT. We have the 4th largest population density in the US. Somehow you’re gonna argue that the Detroit metro area can be almost the same size as the entire state of CT and have a similar population density and yet we cannot sustain a single major league sports team while they have 4.