LibraryLover Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 This is probably best done through PMs, although I am OK with it being on the board. Until not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm in the NYC metropolitan area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I am. Detroit Metro Area. We live VERY close to the Detroit border. Dh works in Detroit. We are downtown three times a week AT LEAST. What do you wanna' know?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Chicago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allearia Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I am in the East Bay, Dh works in SF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
********* Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I am. Detroit Metro Area. We live VERY close to the Detroit border. Dh works in Detroit. We are downtown three times a week AT LEAST. What do you wanna' know?! We live in Metro Detroit, too. Hi Jennifer! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm in the city in metro area #15. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenneinCA Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We are in the SF Bay Metro area, but not in San Francisco itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm between DC and Baltimore and can get to either one fairly quickly. I live in the suburbs though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabrizia Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm between DC and Baltimore and can get to either one fairly quickly. I live in the suburbs though. :iagree: I am probably living right next to KungFuPanda since this describes where I live exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAmom Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Los Angeles here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoffeeChick Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 In the peninsula area of the bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm in the suburbs, but yes to the original question, not SF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elinor Everywhere Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm in the 5th (or 6th, depending) largest city in the country. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 :iagree: I am probably living right next to KungFuPanda since this describes where I live exactly. Do you have a People Tree in your town? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anabelneri Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We're also in the SF Bay Area. People people everywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtney.byrum Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We're also in the SF Bay Area :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm in the 5th (or 6th, depending) largest city in the country. Why? I'm living/homeschooling within the top 10, too. The 8th, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Anyone in SF? I think Crimson Wife is either in SF or nearest to SF. I am in the SF Bay Area and just sent off hubby's brother at SFO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Yes here too. We live in a population center of 5.5 million people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoareyou Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 YES.... what do you want to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We are in the top 4 in NZ. Oh wait, there are only 4. Ruth in NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anabelneri Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Does anyone have a particular reference to what rank metro area their area is? I decided to look up the SF Bay Area, and Wikipedia has SF-Oakland-Fremont as #11 and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara as #31, but I think of it as all one area. Added together they come out to over 6 million people, and that doesn't include the Santa Rosa, Vallejo, or Napa areas who also are considered part of the SF Bay Area. (I probably only think about this as an issue because I live in the area between Sunnyvale and SF, and find it unnerving to have my immediate area split between two metropolitan areas) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grover Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We are in the top 4 in NZ. Oh wait, there are only 4. Ruth in NZ :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We're just over the bridge from sf (15 min drive). I have a few friends who live in the city. Considering a move? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 What do you want to know? Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 No - I am just about as far away from a city as you can get without being in the middle of nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaNYC Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We started hsing in San Diego, then moved to San Jose. So, yes, major metropolitan. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Does anyone have a particular reference to what rank metro area their area is? I decided to look up the SF Bay Area, and Wikipedia has SF-Oakland-Fremont as #11 and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara as #31, but I think of it as all one area. Added together they come out to over 6 million people, and that doesn't include the Santa Rosa, Vallejo, or Napa areas who also are considered part of the SF Bay Area. (I probably only think about this as an issue because I live in the area between Sunnyvale and SF, and find it unnerving to have my immediate area split between two metropolitan areas) But if you count individual cities and not metropolitan areas, it's Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco. I don't see, really, how you could divide the S.F. Bay area. It's all one big metropolitan area, KWIM? If you start on 101 in San Jose and drive up to the City, well, it's just one big city.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 How do you define that? I have only schooled in Metropolitan Areas, major or not. Washington DC is definitely a major one, as was probably Sacramento and Albuquerque. Other areas I have homeschooled still had over 400K people in the area including here in Huntsville and also in Space Coast FL. The only smaller area I have homeschooled in was when I lived in a little town in Belgium but even there, probably the way the Belgians counted it, I still lived in a larger metropolitan area since we were between two much larger cities which were close by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm in Memphis, which is pretty big. Not NYC or San Francisco big, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durriyyah Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We are in the suburbs of a metro area in the top 20, not sure if that counts. We have a ton of museums and stuff we can explore for homeschooling, so it feels pretty major. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I am probably living right next to KungFuPanda since this describes where I live exactly. And this is where I used to live.:tongue_smilie: But now I live in the DFW area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I live in a small city that is part of one major metropolitan area. I call it the "little town in the big city". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 We are in the 'burbs but DH works in S.F. and I have friends who live and HS in the city. I would consider S.F.-Oakland-San Jose and their surrounding suburbs all one big megalopolis (to use one of the vocab words from DD's world geography textbook ;)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PilotMama Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 We are in Los Angeles (well Santa Monica to be exact). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaelAldrich Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Does Tokyo, Japan count?! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 We are in the L.A. metro area. I do enjoy the resources of a major metro library system and the various museums, even though many of them are quite a drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I'm in Baltimore - the city, not the suburbs. I've had people take issue with whether that counts as a major city, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterflymommy Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Yes, but in my corner of the city HSing is, apparently, unheard of. And we don't take advantage of museums like we should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carolinashore Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 We're in the Suburbs of Washington, DC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Los Angeles for many years, now Charlotte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 That little town? Nope, doesn't count. :D Does Tokyo, Japan count?! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momofkhm Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I live in a small city that is part of one major metropolitan area. I call it the "little town in the big city". :iagree: This can be said for where I live too. Although Jean and I live in different states. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbeym Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Yep. Smallish (35K pop) suburban town within 30 minutes of Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 DC, in the city. I like the urban homeschooling. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 (edited) I'm in metro Atlanta. I'd like some defining of terms, here, too. I'm guessing more people than not are in the metropolitan area of some major city, depending on how we define metropolitan area and major. According to this from the Brookings Institution, "Two-thirds of our population lives in the top 100 metropolitan areas, and 84 percent of Americans live in all 363 metros." Edited October 28, 2012 by kokotg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoVanGogh Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I just looked up major metro areas in the US on Wiki... 1.) New York/Northern New Jersey/Long Island 2.) Los Angeles/Long Beach/Santa Ana 3.) Chicago/Joliet/Naperville 4.) Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington 5.) Houston/Sugarland/Baytown According to that, I live smack-dab in the middle of a major metro area. I love it because I am actually "in the 'burbs" so it has a smaller-town feel, yet I can be to two very large cities within 30 minutes. Cultural events and art museums are plentiful and offer many free/discounted opportunities for homeschoolers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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