So this just happened in my neighborhood...

[_Kevin Graham]

No creative cartography needed. Schaumberg is 30.7 miles from downtown Chicago. Woodstock is 30.6 miles from downtown Atlanta. Both Schaumberg and Woodstock are universally recognized as being within the metro area of their respective cities. So yes, they're exactly the same.

[_Xenophon]

I hereby propose that we rename the Dallas Cowboys to the Arlington Cowboys.

[_Kevin Graham]

This notion that you can't realistically say you live in the Atlanta area unless your house resides within the city boundaries is pretty damned stupid, especially when the boundaries of Atlanta are really small compared to similar cities. The "city" of Atlanta is only 130 sq miles with fewer than a half million people. That's a quarter the geographical area as Houston. This is why the Atlanta metro area is called what it is and expands as far as it does. Most of the people who live in my neighborhood commute to Atlanta every day. The guy across the street works for the CDC, another neighbor for the Weather Channel, another at Emory University, and two others work at the AT&T building in down town. When they travel abroad and people ask they where they're from, they say Atlanta because that's the area people are more likely to be familiar with.

[_Kevin Graham]

I hereby propose that we rename the Dallas Cowboys to the Arlington Cowboys.

You've never heard of "Dallas-Ft Worth"? Arlington is smack dab in between them, which kinds goes to the same point I was making. They're all part of the same metropolitan area.

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/dallas-f ... etro-area/

[_honorentheos]

Is there a Cliff Note explanation for this inside baseball debate of no consequence? I really don't get why subbie being bent over Kevin living in an Atlanta-adjacent city so he can't say he lives in Atlanta is a debate worth having. I have to assume there is more to it?

[_Kevin Graham]

Is there a Cliff Note explanation for this inside baseball debate of no consequence? I really don't get why subbie being bent over Kevin living in an Atlanta-adjacent city so he can't say he lives in Atlanta is a debate worth having. I have to assume there is more to it?

No, there isn't more to it. It really is this stupid. The funny thing about this thread is that no one has even commented on the story I linked to.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

I can't wait to watch a game between the Inglewood Rams and East Rutherford Jets. When I watch soccer locally I love to watch Real 'Sandy' Lake play FC 'Frisco' among others.

- Doc

[_Kevin Graham]

Folks seem to have missed the point here. The point was that just because you don't live within the city limits of New York, Atlanta, Dallas, etc. It doesn't mean it is a "lie" to say you're from Atlanta. This was subbies initial claim some months ago. The Atlanta Falcon training camp wasn't the best example, but I notice no one has commented on the Atlanta motor Speedway, located in the city of Hampton, which is just as far from the "city" of Atlanta as Woodstock is. What is this, false advertisement?

[_Xenophon]

Folks seem to have missed the point here. The point was that just because you don't live within the city limits of New York, Atlanta, Dallas, etc. It doesn't mean it is a "lie" to say you're from Atlanta. This was subbies initial claim some months ago. The Atlanta Falcon training camp wasn't the best example, but I notice no one has commented on the Atlanta motor Speedway, located in the city of Hampton, which is just as far from the "city" of Atlanta as Woodstock is. What is this, false advertisement?

Kevin, fairly certain everyone but Subs here was posting tongue-in-cheek. Yes... of course I've heard of DFW

[_Xenophon]

Is there a Cliff Note explanation for this inside baseball debate of no consequence? I really don't get why subbie being bent over Kevin living in an Atlanta-adjacent city so he can't say he lives in Atlanta is a debate worth having. I have to assume there is more to it?

To your point honor, I just like memeing. You have to give him credit, subs did successfully derail this one.