[arreyder]

Not sure your data source on this, but according to the latest census the Des Moines metro is more than three times that number and the most rapid growing metro in the US. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/03/23/des-...

[dragonwriter]

A 600,000 metro area population is not a big metropolitan city.

[PhasmaFelis]

You're just nitpicking now.