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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely Leesburg.  Maybe even Stafford.

In MD, it's tougher because Frederick Co. residents tend to associate more with Frederick Co.; although that's changed and is still changing.  In the next 5-10 years, it will probably considered a solid exurb.[/quote]

Frederick's a satellite city of DC and Baltimore. It's got its own media base (daily paper, active radio station), an active downtown, its own employment base (Ft. Detrick, downtown, along Rt. 85, and some business parks off of Monocacy Boulevard). It has a historic downtown, existed before  the growth of the Greater DC Blob, and has farmland/undeveloped land between it and DC/Baltimore. It also has its own suburbs such as Dearbought, Wormans Mill, and Discovery along 26/193, Ballenger Creek this and that to the south of the city, and places like Whittier and Tuscarora Crossing to the west of town (they're in the city but more suburban in nature.) There is traffic from the outside heading INTO Frederick from Thurmont/Gettysbrg/Hagerstown as well as OUT OF Frederick heading to DC and Baltimore.

And yes, there is a MUCH stronger FredCo identity than there was a separate Loudoun identity (except in western Loudoun).

Leesburg was smaller before the DC area began booming in population.

DC/Baltimore are multipolar cities along the lines of Dallas/Fort Worth or Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Edge cities are like Tysons, Reston, and Columbia -- they have employment bases and cultural offerings, but aren't separate municipalities and aren't as historic as places like Leesburg, Frederick, Annapolis, etc.

Commuter towns/bedroom communities are suburbs where there's little to no employment base within the city. The term exurb was initially defined in 1955 to describe bedroom communities.

As for exurbs -- the distinction between that and a suburb is harder to grade. Ashburn is clearly a suburb of say Reston but it is an exurb to Tysons/Arlington/DC.

I think Urbana will become suburban in nature to Rockville (and exurban to DC/Bethesda) but Frederick will retain its satellite city status. [/quote]

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