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> Not in the suburbs...

Which, as a reminder for urbanists, really translates to "Not in the only place 90% of the nation's population is allowed to live"

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Basically any city that isn't one of the biggest four or five, and even then just the core. Lots of mid-size cities, like Portland, are nearly 100% suburb.

I understand drawing that line there, but the "suburb" of a good portion (half?) of Portland is the urban, neighborly sort that isn't the post-WWII culdesac sprawl. I mean, I guess suburban sprawl is the [awful] norm in the U.S., but then there's the non-sprawl suburb stuff like Portland's walkable grid with narrow streets…

It's more like 27% rural, 43% suburb, 29% city.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/18/americans...

~80% of the people in the Census Bureau's "29% urban" figure are actually in a suburban neighborhood, that happens to lie within the legal boundary of a urban-designated "city".

It's like saying "Manhattan and Long Island are both in NYC, so they're basically the same".

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