| I kind of object on Virginia Beach. Virginia Beach may have been founded in the 1880s, but Norfolk, which is part of the metro, is much older - not sure when its grid was laid out, or whatever, but it was incorporated in 1705. The fact that people decided to take a vast suburban area and incorporate it as a city in 1963, and that the Census Bureau rather inflexibly insists on calling the metro area after this overgrown suburb, rather than the actual central city, doesn't really change that. |