[shiroiushi]

Exactly. Most Americans have to commute long distances crossing multiple states. Daily commutes between places as far apart as Texas and Florida are common. Lots of people working in New York commute by car every day from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina, and even Mississippi. There aren't any kind of clusters of people living together in the US, normally called "cities" in other countries, because Americans all live equally spaced apart across the continent, so that's why public transit can't work in the US.

[fragmede]

sarcasm aside, most of those have no business being called cities, as they don't have the density to support city services like buses or light rail, and should only be called big towns or suburban sprawl.