Some looking around Wikipedia says that the only state in the US with a higher population density than the Netherlands is New Jersey (although Rhode Island is close) with the US as a whole at less than a tenth of the population density of the Netherlands.
Oregon even has only a 25th of the population density of the Netherlands... Just how @#%^ing empty is it 'round there?
Edit: Alaska is 41.35 times the size of the Netherlands while the Netherlands has a population about 25 times as large. No wonder they elected Sarah Palin, they must all be so far apart that you can't see the crazy anymore.
Oregon even has only a 25th of the population density of the Netherlands... Just how @#%^ing empty is it 'round there?
Where I am? It's decently full. Not astounding by any means, but there are people around. The problem is most of the eastern part of the state, and really the south east, is basically deserted.
Here's a fun map. Each dot is 100 people, notice how few dots there are in the lower right. Those 2 counties in that corner are over 50,000 sq. km. in size and have fewer than 40,000 people.
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Edit: Alaska is 41.35 times the size of the Netherlands while the Netherlands has a population about 25 times as large. No wonder they elected Sarah Palin, they must all be so far apart that you can't see the crazy anymore.
Pretty much.
Edited, Aug 29th 2013 11:16am by someproteinguy
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Oregon even has only a 25th of the population density of the Netherlands... Just how @#%^ing empty is it 'round there?
Where I am? It's decently full. Not astounding by any means, but there are people around. The problem is most of the eastern part of the state, and really the south east, is basically deserted.
We don't have any truly empty land though, we had to create some new land for a reason.
You guys have always had some good ingenuity there for sure. I'm not sure I'd want to live there though. But maybe that's just me, we don't have such a good track record with protecting areas that are below sea level from flooding.
I bet your land is actually useful though, unlike this kind of thing where there's really no reason to live anywhere near there. At least no economicly viable reason, some people like getting away from stuff, and we usually try to encourage them to do so.
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We don't have any truly empty land though, we had to create some new land for a reason.
You guys have always had some good ingenuity there for sure. I'm not sure I'd want to live there though. But maybe that's just me, we don't have such a good track record with protecting areas that are below sea level from flooding.
That's why you hire Dutch companies after a storm, our last serious disaster was in 1953 after all and the Dutch started getting the water out of lakes for more land in the 1500's, although the first significant and large one was the Beemster.
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I bet your land is actually useful though, unlike this kind of thing where there's really no reason to live anywhere near there. At least no economically viable reason, some people like getting away from stuff, and we usually try to encourage them to do so.
I bet your land is actually useful though, unlike this kind of thing where there's really no reason to live anywhere near there. At least no economically viable reason, some people like getting away from stuff, and we usually try to encourage them to do so.
It looks pretty though.
It is and there's actually some limited tourism and what not. Problem is there are prettier places that are closer, and there's a lot more land than people who want to visit it. Some parts people let cows and stuff walk around on, much of it doesn't even work for that though.
Edited, Aug 29th 2013 12:11pm by someproteinguy
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If I had a three hour commute, I'd spend that whole time singing. But I know not everyone is into that.
I wanna see a porno sometime of a set of male twins together. That'd be hot. Such a thing probably exists, but I don't like **** enough to look it up.
Here you go. Took all of about 20 seconds of googling.
Okay, there is something wrong with my brain. I read that, and when it got to the part where they said "My brother is my boyfriend, and I am his boyfriend. He is my lifeblood, and he is my only love." I was all "Awww, that's so sweet!" Then I remembered my reaction to the whole Cersei and Jaime Lannister thing and realized I have a ****** up double standard.
Also, whoever sent me the anonymous link via pm to those boys' tumbler, shame on you. But thanks for giving me a laugh. I was highly amused that someone would send me a link to **** gifs and pics, even after I said I don't really like **** that much.
Some looking around Wikipedia says that the only state in the US with a higher population density than the Netherlands is New Jersey (although Rhode Island is close) with the US as a whole at less than a tenth of the population density of the Netherlands.
Oregon even has only a 25th of the population density of the Netherlands... Just how @#%^ing empty is it 'round there?
Edit: Alaska is 41.35 times the size of the Netherlands while the Netherlands has a population about 25 times as large. No wonder they elected Sarah Palin, they must all be so far apart that you can't see the crazy anymore.
Edited, Aug 29th 2013 8:03pm by Aethien
You really need to get down in the weeds and look at population density by county if you want a decent idea.
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2000 U.S. population density in persons per sq. mile (contiguous U.S. only). Averaged on a per-county basis. Legend, light to dark (white to dark blue): 0-1 (white) 1-4 (yellow) 5-9 (yellow-green) 10-24 (green) 25-49 (teal) 50-99 (dark teal) 100-249 (blue) 250-66,995 (violet)
Looking at that you can see why we here refer to New Jersey as one long parkway. You can also see that Wyoming has an average of about 7 people per square mile, in my guesstimation. That's less than two families.
EDIT: I think 7 may actually be high.
EDIT: Hold on, teal? Is that really a color?
Edited, Aug 29th 2013 4:37pm by cynyck
Edited, Aug 29th 2013 4:38pm by cynyck
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