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		tomschlick on Sept 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for Y... Also, they eliminated PGH based on the 1 million population without accounting for the city borders being much smaller than normal cities due to how Allegheny county is structured. The metro area is ~2.5 million and is about the same size as most city borders.

_n_b_ on Sept 10, 2017 [–]

It was actually eliminated on "job growth is strong" not on metro area size. The first map is all >1M metro areas, which lists Pgh.

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