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An old comic still relevant (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/

Wrong. Individually Urban neighborhoods were about 100M. See what you have done is combined urban and suburban populations like it's a political map. But the suburban population of the US is 175M with rural adding 46M.

So no, most of the US, does not experience this nor do they live in a city. They probably live near a city.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Suburbs are a part of a city.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look even expanding your scope here, only 40% of them live in early suburbs vs late and exurb. And only the early suburbs from the top 6 metropolis. The vast majority of small metropolis early suburbs look nothing like this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/built-environment/us-cities-factsheet

It is estimated that 83% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas, up from 64% in 1950

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-majority-of-people-in-the-world-now-live-in-cities

cities with more than 50,000 people have become the most popular living areas worldwide, as shown in the chart.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270860/urbanization-by-continent/

North America as well as Latin America and the Caribbean were the regions with the highest level of urbanization, with over four fifths of the population residing in urban areas.

Looking at counties instead of actual cities is your problem.