Comments by "" (@MarvinPowell1) on "Why Wyoming is VASTLY Emptier Than Colorado" video.

@liamstewart898 You're the most correct here, as a large city has to have at least half a million people to count, and Salt Lake City only has 200,000 people in the city itself. "Greater metropolitan area" is just a BS way to artificially inflate city size and get more federal government funding, and it doesn't count as the actual city, as different laws and governing bodies apply. So yeah, Albuquerque counts as a large city, but Salt Lake City is largely irrelevant and very tiny. In fact, there's only 37 large cities in the US (500k people or more), and only about 10 major cities in the US (a million people or more; San Jose is in-flux and may not count anymore), even if some small cities like San Francisco or Las Vegas, have the notoriety of a major city and are more famous than large-but-irrelevant places like San Antonio, San Jose, or San Diego, which are huge but aren't really known for anything, unlike Vegas. TL;DR: People's opinions about the cities they grew up in, doesn't change the facts. Salt Lake City is a small city.
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Salt Lake City isn't a large city. It's a small city, at best. A large city has to have a population of half a million people or more, and Salt Lake City only has 200k people in it, which is very small. Also, the "greater metropolitan areas" don't count as the city itself.
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Those blinking glitches at the 7 minute mark had me confused for a bit.
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Salt Lake City isn't a large city. A large city has to have a population of half a million people or more, and "greater metropolitan areas" don't count as the city itself. If "greater metropolitan areas" counted as "the city," then the entire upper half of New Jersey would count as "New York City" by that logic, as their combined population would be 20 million and the 9th largest "city" in the world. Just because in your mind, the Wasatch front is "basically one big city kinda" doesn't make it any more factual than all of southern California "basically being one big city." You're actually wrong here going off the logic of "it's close enough," although RLL should've been more specific in their wording.
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@alecerdmann8505 As I already stated, just because you feel like the suburbs and nearby cities "should count," doesn't mean they do. I used another analogy in another comment; if "the greater metropolitan area" counted as "the city," then the entire northern half of New Jersey would "count" as New York City as well, and all of southern California would be one big, Judge Dredd-style mega-city. But they aren't. "Greater metropolitan area" means nothing and is only used to get more federal funding based on artificially inflating population size. If it actual meant something, it'd be the actual city.
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