... "near Cupertino" in population, not geographically. Okay, that makes much more sense.
It's not really a "suburb of Des Moines" - though eventually, as they grow, it may be considered that. It's 30 miles north of Des Moines, through an awful lot of rural Iowa. I'd consider a "suburb" to be "generally built up when traveling between A and B," though there's some flexibility in that definition. But Ames is its own place from Des Moines.
It's not really a "suburb of Des Moines" - though eventually, as they grow, it may be considered that. It's 30 miles north of Des Moines, through an awful lot of rural Iowa. I'd consider a "suburb" to be "generally built up when traveling between A and B," though there's some flexibility in that definition. But Ames is its own place from Des Moines.