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> I'm from a more metropolitan area i guess.

I would be surprised if you are from somewhere more metropolitan than Kobe Japan [0]. It is much more likely that you are just young.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keihanshin

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Population density is considerably less than that of NYC. Scaling NYC up to 13,000 km² would put the population 90 million

The population density is also much less if we scaled the population of my apartment up to 13,000 km², but that isn't how metropolitan areas are traditionally measured. The NYC metro area includes three states, lots of sprawl - so it is much less dense.

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