Re: [MLUG] most wired local markets...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jonathan King wrote:

> But I still don't know what Mike has against metro areas; the suburbs
> aren't going away. :-)

Nothing against them, it's just that....

> Seriously, St. Louis the city is down to 348,000 people (never did
> clear 750K, though), but over 2,000,000 people have close enough
> connections with the place to make it a useful unit of analysis.  I
> mean, sure, Clayton is over on the other side of some line in the
> sand, but that's partly because St. Louis never got to annex its
> suburbs to the degree that even KC did (and much less lots of places
> out west like San Diego).

The reason is probably that St. Louis is very different from its suburbs.
That's why it's important to be clear about what we mean when we say that
58% (or whatever) of people in St. Louis are on the net.  It's probably
more like 30% in St. Louis and 65% in its suburbs.

I'm not accusing you, Jon, of being unclear.  It wasn't anything you
wrote.  The statistics are very interesting but they would be more
informative if they gave us details about sampling methods and how regions
are defined.

Mike

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