Seems plausible that it’d be worth making this change although it does seem complicated.
A lot of people commute from the East Bay into SF. It’s not clear to me whether somebody who lives in Oakland/Berkeley but works in SF should be included as ‘SF’ or ‘East Bay.’ Am I right that this is a lot less common in Loxbridge? If so, that makes the communities feel somewhat more distinct.
I don’t know England well enough to figure out where each city’s suburbs end but when I made a vague attempt to draw an area around Loxbridge, it seemed to be about 5,000 square miles. That’s actually pretty close to the area of the Bay Area, which is 3,000 square miles if you just include the four counties where (I think) the overwhelming majority of EAs live: Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Francisco. (You don’t have to travel through the other five counties to travel between these ones).
Seems plausible that it’d be worth making this change although it does seem complicated.
A lot of people commute from the East Bay into SF. It’s not clear to me whether somebody who lives in Oakland/Berkeley but works in SF should be included as ‘SF’ or ‘East Bay.’ Am I right that this is a lot less common in Loxbridge? If so, that makes the communities feel somewhat more distinct.
I don’t know England well enough to figure out where each city’s suburbs end but when I made a vague attempt to draw an area around Loxbridge, it seemed to be about 5,000 square miles. That’s actually pretty close to the area of the Bay Area, which is 3,000 square miles if you just include the four counties where (I think) the overwhelming majority of EAs live: Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Francisco. (You don’t have to travel through the other five counties to travel between these ones).