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Fallout is based of real life locations, the old fallout could get away with this NY just giving us a slice of the areas via points of interest, but as Bethesda made it 1 continous walkable area they could not feasible add every single house, street, detail, person, ect of a multi thousand square foot area, by lore these places are equivalently populated and large as cities IRL but in game they effectively have to make everything 1/50th scale.
Take vegas for example IRL vegas is not a total of 8 blocks and traversable in 5 minutes, IRL vegas is a big fucking city, and in lore it is big, example this picture that has several businesses that exist but aren't shown in game in the strip