Shouldn't Nashville, Tennessee be bigger than Chicago, Illinois?

Question

Nashville is way bigger in land area than Chicago, But yet Chicago is considered the third largest city in the United States.

Go look up Nashville stats it is way, way bigger than Chicago. Way more land. But everyone talks about Chicago. Nashville should at least be the third biggest city.

Shouldn't Nashville, TN be one of top three 3 cities in the United States. Or at least ahead of Chicago.

I know, I know. Population. But don't you get it, with all that land. Nashville's population should 3 times bigger than Chicago's. Nashville is HUGE.

Something is not right.

Answer 1

Maybe it's because people like Chicago more than Nashvillle? Don't get me wrong, Nashville is nice. I was there about a month ago. But you can't expect people to flock to a city if they basically feature only one type of music. I walked down their main street and every single bar was blasting country music, either recorded or from a live band. Don't get me wrong, I like country sometimes, but if I'm going to move to a city, I like to have options. Yes, there was loud rock music blasting from bars on another street with a bunch of bars (I forget the name of the street but there's a Hooters at one end.) but for the most part it's country, country, country. From the Ernest Tubbs record store to the big store on the main drag that sells cowboy boots and western shirts. That's great if you're a country music fanatic, but Chicago offers so much more. I mean, where are the alternative music bars, the indie bands, the indie rock bars, the jazz clubs, the reggae bars, the punk bars? Sure Nashville might have those places, but if they exist, I never saw them.



Land has nothing to do with it. It has to do with what the city has to offer. And the more a city has to offer, the more people will flock to it.

Answer 2

Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh not at you but at the fact that you think Nashville is so huge. I live in Nashville and used to live in Indiana. I have been to Chicago and New York City. Nashville, to me, is about the size of Indianapolis. It is easy to get around and what you are probably thinking is that the suburban areas and town connecting make it seem a lot larger. In all actuality, Nashville is a small country city. This is nice. However, the traffic is horrific here (I notice someone else mentioned it). I live in Franklin which is 15 minutes South of Nashville.....if it is the middle of the night on a Sunday night. During the week, especially during rush hour (which can last three or four hours), it is a 45 minute to 1.5 hour drive from here to Nashville. And that is whether you are coming in from Ashland City, Dickson, Antioch, Smyrna or Hendersonville.



The traffic is horrible because the economy is better here and a lot of car manufacturer's call this home now. So, people from Michigan, a lot of them, as well as Californian's have moved to the Cool Springs and Nashville area. Seriously, Nashville doesn't even touch Chicago in size. As I said, I lived in Indianapolis most of my life, it took me longer to get from the South side of Indy to the North side than it ever has to get from South Nashville to North Nashville. 25 minutes TOPS if you stay on 65.



When looking at rankings for largest cities, a lot is taken into consideration. In the case of city populations, the resulting distribution in a country, region or the world will be characterized by a largest city, with other cities decreasing in size respective to it, initially at a rapid rate and then more slowly. This results in a few large cities, and a much larger number of cities orders of magnitude smaller. For example, a rank 3 city would have ⅓ the population of a country's largest city, a rank four city would have ¼ the population of the largest city, and so on. (wikepedia-rank-size rule).



Hope this helps :-)

Answer 3

San Francisico is not only for gays. It is quite expensive to live in by any standard you can dream up. There are many things to do there and it is close to many places such as Silicon Valley and the wine growing areas of Napa, Sonoma, Livermore valley etc. Lake Tahoe is a 3 hour drive away for skiing and casinos. Monterey Bay is a little closer. There is no limit to the recreational activities you can take advantage of. Remember that it is a very liberal and civilized city and rigid irrational attitudes are not tolerated. Public transportation is excellent so you can live in the city without a car. As a matter of fact owning a car could be quite a headache as parking is limited and ridculously expensive. As Henny Youngman once said he found a guy lying on the street, Thinking he was in distress he went to help him. The guy told him he was OK. He had just found a parking space so he sent his wife out to buy a car! Seattle is not bad. As far as San Francisco is concerned L. A. is a foreign country, nice to visit but ... Chicago is cold and polarized. You have black neighborhoods, Polish neighborhoods, Italian neighborhodds, Lationo neighborhoods etc. so you can find yourself quite a stranger to be viewed with suspicion if you happen to turn down the wrong street. The Bay Area is a microcosm of the world and yes all ethnic groups get along just fine.

Answer 4

Nashville's population is steady growing every year. As a native of Nashville I love the fact that we have so much open space and land.

Answer 5

Chicago is way bigger than Nashville, but Nashville is growing, I live in Nashville and all im saying get rid of all these foreigners that is populating my city of Nashville

Answer 6

The problem with Nashville is that its government merged with Davidson County, so the land mass is indeed very large but much of that land mass is actually pretty rural. If you ever come here, you'll see that we are nowhere NEAR as packed in as Chicago...

Answer 7

Thank goodness we don't have 3 x's the population we already do.... how bad to you want the rush hours to get? I'll take Nashville exactly the way it is, thank you.... but it IS gaining in population, too, unfortunately.

Answer 8

the amount of people is all that maters.



we bribed the mapmakers / census takers with our deep dish Pizza



Nashville is fine I just love were I live here in Chicago!



Nashville can be the 3rd biggest if we (Chicago) can be 2nd

Answer 9

You said it yourself. Its all about the population. Land mass statistics mean little unless you plan on building.