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> I'm pretty sure that I can see more 40+ story buildings from my balcony in Brickell than exist in Northern California.

Uh, yeah, Miami’s a bigger (but poorer) metro than SFBA and doesn't have the seismic issues of the Bay Area, so it would be weird if that wasn’t true.

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The "seismic issue" is a red herring tossed around by SFBA NIMBY's to justify their nonsense. Taipei and Tokyo have nearly an order of magnitude larger seismic activity than the SFBA and have no issues building lots of dense, tall buildings in their urban cores.

Miami metro (6.1m) is bigger than SF-Oakland metro (4.7m) but smaller than the SFBA (7.1m) and much smaller than the greater bay combined statistical area (9.6m), whereas the greater Miami statistical area is similar to Miami metro (6.8m). Comparing the sizes of sprawly megalopolis areas like this is hard, but it's certainly not true that Miami area is more populous than Northern California.

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