UNLIMITED CHART APPRECIATION THREAD!

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

HOLY SHIT! CHARTS!

[Eater of Clowns]

WOO!  GO NEW BEDFORD!

[Iason Ouabache]

Excuse me, but Danville, IL is NOT a major metropolitan area.

[Doktor Howl]

Excuse me, but Danville, IL is NOT a major metropolitan area.

Danville's a fucking hole.

[Eater of Clowns]

With NB being placed so close to Flint, MI and recent talk of harpoons around here, I want to make a Roger & Me parody wherein I try to ask the legislature why they outlawed whaling, thus crushing my city's economy.

[Durivan]

I'm not sure how they count Hickory, NC as a major metropolitan area either.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

I'm not sure how they count anything in West Virginia as a metropolitan area.

[Jenne]

Yup, that's our California alright.    Fuck yuo, Schwarzenegger.  Rotten piece of shit Governator.

[Cain]

El Centro was also the setting for a strange ARG by Discordian trickster Joseph Matheny.  Coincidence?  I think not.

[Jenne]

Poor El Centro.   It has...issues.

[East Coast Hustle]

Yup, that's our California alright.    Fuck yuo, Schwarzenegger.  Rotten piece of shit Governator.

In all fairness, most of the economic problems California is confronting are not of his making, he's just doing a terrible job trying to fix them.

[Jenne]

Yup, that's our California alright.    Fuck yuo, Schwarzenegger.  Rotten piece of shit Governator.

In all fairness, most of the economic problems California is confronting are not of his making, he's just doing a terrible job trying to fix them.

Chicken-egg for the CAn economy, really.  He campaigned on some platforms and made multiple promises he was too fucking weak to work against the GOP establishment to actuate.

So yeah, I'll still blame the fucker, thanks.

[East Coast Hustle]

so, like I said. He's not to blame for causing the problems, he's just been disastrous at fixing them.

[East Coast Hustle]

Also, all of the CA cities except for San Bernardino, Santa Cruz, and Redding have one major thing in common aside from their unemployment rates, and that is an undiversified economy based on a single industry that is highly susceptible to market conditions. Combine that with the resulting housing bubble and this was a statistic that has been a long time in the making.

[East Coast Hustle]

All of that aside, the only place on that chart that is ACTUALLY a major metropolitan area is Detroit. The rest are either under a million people in population or peripheral parts of a larger megalopolis.