> Forge wrote:

>> In article , jedi@nomad.mishnet
>> says...

>>>> Either way, that's an inaccurate description of the "Winter" cities.

>>> They're suburbs. It's painfully obvious just looking at a map.
>>>
>>> They may not have started that way but that's not uncommon.

>>
>> Uh-uh. A "suburb" is an area still governed by that city. Winter Park
>> and Winter Haven (which is MILES AND MILES from the edges of Orlando)
>> each have their own city council and their own distinct borders. Winter
>> Park was founded only a decade or two after Orlando was officially
>> called Orlando. And of course, at that time they were MILES apart, but
>> both grew until their borders touch in the vicinity of the old Naval
>> Training Center (which is now a giganto development of condos and
>> townhomes, naturally).
>>
>> Orlando's "suburbs" include Colonialtown and an unofficially-declared
>> "Little Saigon" near downtown, College Park to the north of downtown,
>> and yeah, Pine Hills to the west. A tick further west and you're in
>> Apopka, and that too is a separate municipality.
>>
>> Please note that saying something is so, over and over again, does not
>> make it so. Thanks.
>>

>
> Sorry, but it's not the way the term is used in these precincts. All the
> smaller cities around Seattle are considered suburbs by one and all
> here. Possibly Bellevue is the exception, since it's grown up into
> something like a stand-alone city and has an important business
> district, industries, and entertainment resources. But the major role of
> cities like Kent, Auburn, Renton, Burien (near where I live in
> unincorporated King County), SeaTac, and Tukwila, all south of Seattle
> proper, is to provide a place for people to live when they're not
> working in Seattle.