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Largest US city/metro area you have not been in

Started by hotdogPi, May 26, 2017, 10:35:42 AM

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hotdogPi

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 02, 2018, 08:06:18 PM
Quote from: 1 on January 02, 2018, 08:05:34 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 02, 2018, 08:04:15 PM
Quote from: ce929wax on January 02, 2018, 06:37:26 PM
New York City.  I hope to fix that in the next few years when I visit Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.
Yankee stadium sucks. Don't go within 20 miles of it.

Do you realize how large 20 miles is?
Still well within NYC metro.

I reverted my modification of a previous post, but I didn't realize that you misinterpreted me.

I meant that avoiding everything within 20 miles of Yankee Stadium means avoiding the entirety of Manhattan plus more. The Empire State Building, which has absolutely nothing to do with Yankee Stadium, is only 6 miles away.
Clinched, plus MA 286

Traveled, plus
US 13, 44, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 107, 109, 117, 119, 126, 141, 159
NH 27, 111A(E); CA 133; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 25


Hurricane Rex

NYC for me. Unlike ce, that won't be fixed the next few years.
ODOT, raise the speed limit and fix our traffic problems.

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Running till I die.

TBKS1

I'm missing a lot. I'll say that.

Here's what I haven't been to yet (Out of the top 25):

1. New York City.
2. Los Angeles.
3. Chicago.
5. Houston.
6. Washington DC.
7. Philadelphia
8. Miami/Fort Lauderdale
9. Atlanta (as much as I really wanna go here...)
10. Boston (I haven't mentioned that I've never been anywhere in New England yet...)
11. San Francisco Bay Area
12. Phoenix (I also really wanna go here too...)
13. Inland Empire
14. Detroit
15. Seattle
16. Minneapolis
17. San Diego (I should also mention I've never been to the west coast either.)
18. Tampa Bay Area (I haven't been to any part of Florida yet.)
19. Denver
21. Baltimore
22. Charlotte
23. Orlando
24. San Antonio
25. Portland/Vancouver.

I go to many smaller Metro Areas and Micropolitan Areas a lot more often. It's pretty easy to tell.

Smallest Metropolitan Area I've visited was Pine Bluff, Arkansas. (Population: ~91,000)

Largest Micropolitan Area I've visited was Russellville, Arkansas. (Population: ~85,000)
I take pictures of road signs, that's about it.

General rule of thumb: Just stay in the "Traffic Control" section of the forum and you'll be fine.

silverback1065

I went to LA last year, wasn't impressed.  SF Bay Area is so much better. 

Buck87

The largest MSA I have not to been to is Los Angeles, however, the largest CSA I have not been to is SF-OAK-SJ.

This is because I have passed through the Riverside-San Bernardino MSA on I-15 to I-215 back to I-15 during the San Diego to Las Vegas leg of a family vacation when I was a kid.

StogieGuy7

Seattle is a glaring hole in my travel resume (although I have been to southern WA).  I'd follow that up with New Orleans, Honolulu and Anchorage.  Can't think of any other significant metros in the US that I have not visited at least once.

cbeach40

Houston and Atlanta just the airports, Phoenix never visited at all.

Atlanta will at least change next month. :)
and waterrrrrrr!

freebrickproductions

Los Angeles. Probably would've been New York City prior to September of last year as well.
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

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webny99

NOT BEEN TO:
Dallas/Fort Worth
Houston
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Atlanta

BEEN TO:
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington, DC
Chicago
Twin Cities
Denver (airport only)
San Antonio
San Francisco

LM117

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silverback1065

Quote from: webny99 on January 04, 2018, 12:30:30 PM
NOT BEEN TO:
Dallas/Fort Worth
Houston
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Atlanta

BEEN TO:
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington, DC
Chicago
Twin Cities
Denver (airport only)
San Antonio
San Francisco

denver is the shit.  you need to go back and leave the airport and explore the city, it's one of my favorite cities i've been to!

inkyatari

Quote from: kphoger on January 02, 2018, 04:01:17 PM
We lived in New Lenox in the 1980s, and I never thought of Joliet as anything but a suburb.  Besides, Bill and Ted confirmed that Aurora is a suburb of Chicago.

I think you're confusing Bill & Ted with Wayne and Garth of Wayne's World
I'm never wrong, just wildly inaccurate.

webny99

Quote from: silverback1065 on January 04, 2018, 02:14:48 PM
denver is the shit.  you need to go back and leave the airport and explore the city, it's one of my favorite cities i've been to!

It's in the long term plans. We walked (outside) from the plane to the terminal, which is the main reason I counted it.

kphoger

Quote from: inkyatari on January 04, 2018, 02:55:30 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 02, 2018, 04:01:17 PM
We lived in New Lenox in the 1980s, and I never thought of Joliet as anything but a suburb.  Besides, Bill and Ted confirmed that Aurora is a suburb of Chicago.

I think you're confusing Bill & Ted with Wayne and Garth of Wayne's World

Absolutely.  Crazy brain fart.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

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CNGL-Leudimin

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 02, 2018, 08:04:15 PM
Yankee stadium sucks. Don't go within 20 miles of it.

Get lost. I hate FC Barcelona, yet I wouldn't mind to visit its stadium.
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Eth

Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on January 04, 2018, 05:13:15 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 02, 2018, 08:04:15 PM
Yankee stadium sucks. Don't go within 20 miles of it.

Get lost. I hate FC Barcelona, yet I wouldn't mind to visit its stadium.

There's nothing better than walking into your arch-rival's stadium and watching your team beat them. Only good reason to go to Athens, GA (#216 on the list — see, this is on topic!), really.

Skye


KEVIN_224

The largest ones I haven't been in? Los Angeles and Houston. I have been in:

Boston
New York City (#1)
Philadelphia (#5)
Baltimore
Washington DC
Tampa
Orlando (MCO - airport only)
Nashville
Columbus, OH
Indianapolis
Chicago (#3)

DandyDan

Quote from: pianocello on May 26, 2017, 12:50:34 PM
Largest I haven't been to: NYC. In fact, the only ones in the top 10 I've been to are Chicago and Washington.

Smallest I have been to: Danville, IL, driving through on I-74
Smallest I've spent a considerable amount of time in: Dubuque, IA
Oddly enough, I come very close to matching you on all scores. I have, in addition to Chicago and Washington, a trip through DFW on the way to El Paso. I drove through Danville, IL on I-74 twice, stopping for gas there once. Never spent a considerable amount of time in Dubuque, although I did spend one night there in my teen years. OTOH, Grand Island NE is smaller than Dubuque.
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kphoger

I saw this and thought some of you might be interested.

Largest Cities in the United States Over Time

Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

inkyatari

Quote from: DandyDan on January 06, 2018, 05:31:28 AM
Never spent a considerable amount of time in Dubuque, although I did spend one night there in my teen years. OTOH, Grand Island NE is smaller than Dubuque.

Been to Dubuque a few times.  It's a nice smaller city.

Grand Island, NE is a must stop on the way to Wyoming or Colorado, especially if driving from Chicago, for no other reason than to break up the monotony of the trip.
I'm never wrong, just wildly inaccurate.

OrangeLantern

This one's easy for me. I have literally never been to NYC, not even the airports

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: kphoger on January 08, 2018, 01:23:44 PM
I saw this and thought some of you might be interested.

Largest Cities in the United States Over Time


Lol rip Cleveland and Detroit.
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webny99

#99
Quote from: silverback1065 on January 02, 2018, 12:09:09 PM
now it's NYC for me

What could it possibly have been before?  :hmmm:
Did you un-visit NYC? (not an altogether bad idea)

ETA that I see now that empirestate asked as well. Still legit because no answer yet.



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