The NEXT Top MEGAREGIONS Of The United States

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You all loved the first megaregions episode so much, I decided to follow it up with the NEXT top megaregions! While the Northern California, Florida, and Cascadia megaregions aren't quite as prominent as the top four, they each still have an eclectic culture and huge contribution to the country.
Next time in this series we'll dive into the final three US based megaregions and, if popular, we'll just keep on going through other global megaregions in the world.
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@AlexPGA 7 месяцев назад

babe wake up Geography By Geoff just dropped.

@maxm611 7 месяцев назад

Babe, it's afternoon here, why are you still asleep

@triaxe-mmb 7 месяцев назад

@@maxm611babe, it's always morning or nighttime somewhere on the globe...such is the nature of a spherical object spiralling thru space spinning around a relatively nondescript star in an average galaxy...

@TheLiamster 7 месяцев назад

I’m not your babe and I’ve already woken up

@musewinter9369 7 месяцев назад

Im up im up

@dustin35713 6 месяцев назад

Geoff’s latest videos has me falling asleep with some grotesque inaccuracies and ignorance to be honest.

@Noremac_the_Negligible 7 месяцев назад

San Francisco and San Jose aren’t separate metro areas, it’s one metro area with 7 million people imo

@shubdotclub 7 месяцев назад

The weird thing is that they’re classified as two in the census; it should be one honestly

@nick8243 7 месяцев назад

Yes they are separate metro areas because not enough people commute between their central counties to qualify as a single metro area. Only less than 25% actually do so.

@laeihbvaljefhbvalejfhbv 7 месяцев назад

@@nick8243 doesnt take away the fact that new jersey is put in with new york! a lot of new yorkers including me never go into new jersey. san jose oakland san francisco is one, if you grew up in the bay youd know this.

@NatureShy 7 месяцев назад

@@laeihbvaljefhbvalejfhbv Agreed, and I am from Oregon not from California. Just looking at maps its plainly obvious they're connected. Seattle and Tacoma are considered together I believe, and Tacoma is a pretty large and distinct city away from Seattle, but they all connect.

@tmghui888 7 месяцев назад

I agree. The Bay Area is one metro region with 9 counties with over 7.5 million people. That is how the Bay Area is defined. I disagree with the census separating SF with SJ as 2 metro areas.

@killercaos123 7 месяцев назад

Random fun fact: inside the lower 48 states Washington contains the total most glaciers.

@tomfields3682 7 месяцев назад

Ok , but how many of the lower 48 have glaciers? 🤔

@tlspud 7 месяцев назад

The "Portland" grain harbor that leads the nation in grain exports is actually across the Columbia in Vancouver, WA (not to be confused with that crazy Canadian city of the same name, eh!) The Port of Vancouver (WA) is a pretty impressive operation. I hope to be able to get a full tour of it next Spring.

@greasher926 7 месяцев назад

Also most of the grain doesn’t come from the Willamette but the Palouse region in SE WA, NE OR and N ID. Those grains are then barged down the Columbia River. Lewiston ID being the most inland river port in western US.

@tlspud 7 месяцев назад

@greasher926 Yes, it's quite fascinating--how river transportation has shaped the region. Years ago, they had an exhibit at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, OR with a graphic showing exactly what you were mentioning.

@Djamonja 7 месяцев назад

And it's a lot more than grain they are shipping out of the PNW, there's a lot of fruit and vegetables, potatoes, etc.

@cloudwatcher608 7 месяцев назад

As a resident of Vancouver, it’s pretty cool to have my city shouted out. We also have a ton of coal that passes through here for better or worse, depending on who you ask. I live right by the train tracks that go from the port heading north so I see it all the time. All in all, Vancouver is a pretty cool city. Just close enough to enjoy the perks of a bigger city like Portland but able to escape some of the issues thereof.

@highway2heaven91 7 месяцев назад

Both Vancouvers were named for George Vancouver

@kenlehigh6363 7 месяцев назад

Great video! I really enjoyed this one being i live in the Cascadia megaregion. I personally love the Pacific North West.

@cloudwatcher608 7 месяцев назад

The PNW is always home for me, no matter where I travel my heart is happy to be home

@timcombs2730 23 дня назад

I lived in the northwest my whole life nobody called it Cascadia until the late 90s

@mbathroom1 7 месяцев назад

Congrats on reaching 300,000 subscribers. Can’t believe how much this channel has grown

@birbluv9595 7 месяцев назад

I’m always so happy when Geoff drops another video! Thank you for providing such interesting content!

@neilwaldock6272 7 месяцев назад

Ben Cartwright would be appalled to know that the Ponderosa was part of a megacity!

@cgpxae2119 7 месяцев назад

Do a vid on the NC-SC-GA mega region

@aveleda84 Месяц назад

I would agree. I am shocked how Cascadia and Florida were included over Piedmont Atlantic (PAM). The population of PAM is right up there with Cascadia and Florida and it's GDP is possibly higher. I am surprised at how it's been skipped.

@delta01protoman 7 месяцев назад

Hi from RU-vid Recommendations. Never saw your channel, yet I am here within an hour from upload. Great job, Geoff, and thanks RU-vid!

@thestach7729 7 месяцев назад

i’m glad you touched on the bay area, it’s so much more than just san francisco and a lot goes on here that has huge influences on the world, my COUNTY has a bigger gdp than Denmark and the UAE

@ViperTempest7274 7 месяцев назад

I agree I live in the Bay Area and everybody think it’s just San Francisco but reality is much more and has a booming economy than just San Francisco. Such as Sacramento snd San Jose so I’m also glad he touched on the parts of the Bay Area and other parts of the mega region besides just San Francisco.

@thestach7729 7 месяцев назад

@@ViperTempest7274 yeah people dont realize that san jose is larger by almost 200,000 residents, thats like entire populations of "big cities" here in the states, the true heart of the bay in my opinion but the east bay is also significant in terms of culture, just like SF

@ViperTempest7274 7 месяцев назад

Agree

@eastpark4864 7 месяцев назад

Your county got bigger GDP because they count flipping burgers into it. UAE don't flip burgers, so they're undeveloped third world country.

@AR-tj1no 7 месяцев назад

@@ViperTempest7274 Sacramento is definitely not part of the Bay Area.

@lk29392 7 месяцев назад

Congrats on 300K subscribers!

@rodrigomurrugarra3688 7 месяцев назад

Love your videos!

@tanmaygupta5504 7 месяцев назад

if the great lakes is a mega region than savannah ga needs to be added to the florida megaregion. There are some rural parts between savannah and the georgia border but the distance from Jacksonville downtown to savannah is around 130-140 miles. This is similar to the distance between Cleveland and detroit. Yeah, there is toledo but does that count as a major city?

@user-uo4rf4ez8c 7 месяцев назад

Yep! Their port is the 2nd busiest in the US.

@matthewlarson738 7 месяцев назад

As a few other people have said the grain mostly comes from the eastern Wa and eastern OR farms and is shipped down the Columbia river where it is shipped to other places from Vancouver

@glencurtis2761 6 месяцев назад

Really should just include the entire states of Washington and Oregon. Eastern Washington has 1.6 million people and is a huge ag region that provides economic diversity for the region.

@txcmno 7 месяцев назад

i love your videos bro. greetings from a geography student from Chile :D

@alexmcintyre8229 6 месяцев назад

For Cascadia I would include Vancouver Island Victoria to Nanaimo.

@un852 7 месяцев назад

9:50 You meant to say, 'cannot be overstated'.

@iboKirby 7 месяцев назад

I’m just curious why Victoria wouldn’t be considered part of the Cascadia megaregion. I could maybe understand why it wouldn’t be mentioned, but it wasn’t even included in the highlighted borders.

@AUniqueHandleName444 7 месяцев назад

His borders are VERY fuzzy for both Cascadia and Norcal.

@kathygann7632 7 месяцев назад

Victoria, Canada is south of Bellingham, WA.

@timcombs2730 23 дня назад

Nobody called the northwest Cascadia until those hippie soccer teams

@Dominodude55 7 месяцев назад

I'd like to see you do a video on the Windsor-Quebec City Corridor some day, the area that makes up half of Canada's population and is poised for huge future potential.

@E4439Qv5 7 месяцев назад

If they can figure out the housing situation, sure.

@Dominodude55 7 месяцев назад

@@E4439Qv5 Realistically people are coming here already, that's *why* there's a housing problem. Toronto has five times more construction cranes tan any other North American city, and with global warming on the rise, people from the south in the United States will be choosing to move here anyway. It's the economic powerhouse of the country

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

⁠@@Dominodude55No they won’t lol, they’ll just move back to the midwest and northeast. There’s no money to be made in canada, the salaries when adjusting for CAD is 0.73x of the dollar, Canadians earn 25K less per year while houses cost far more. The best megaregion to make money right now is the midwest great lakes running from Minneapolis-Chicago-Indianapolis-Cincinnati-Columbus-Cleveland and StLouis, and no i’m not including detroit.

@Dominodude55 6 месяцев назад

@@aimxdy8680 Perhaps, but I'm not talking about right now, I'm talking about the next few decades. The future, Toronto is primed to be the next big megacity, following in New York's footsteps, but with the added bonus of being in a country more friendly to the international community. With all fallout of roe v wade and generally the republican decline towards manhunts and systematically outlawing everyone they don't like, moving across the border will be an appealing alternative to more and more people. the temperature is climbing and there's a lot of economic opportunity on the horizon, with a political climate that's a touch less intense in similar issues. Southwestern Ontario is in a promising position

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

@@Dominodude55 Instead you have crazy trudeau and liberal party banning everything, your liberal party cant even fix roads. When I drive in north dakota the road goes from smooth asphalt to once im in manitoba, canada all of a sudden the roads become uneven concrete and potholes

@jakebaumgart388 5 месяцев назад

More mega region videos!!

@WineSippingCowboy 7 месяцев назад

I am happy 😊 to be a San Francisco native 🌁. Steve Miller even sings "Northern California" in Rocking Me. So does Huey Lewis in Heart of Rock and Roll, "... San Francisco too", 40 years ago 🎂. Add Vietnam 🇻🇳 and Philippines 🇵🇭 for Asians who move to Northern California.

@jasonknight5863 7 месяцев назад

Yes I can attest to that I lived in a hotel for months on end and it was literally filled with pregnant Asians mostly from China and the Philippines. Funny that… you’d think they are all here to have United States citizenship? 😂 too much of a scam artist place for me to live though.

@kyckrox1 7 месяцев назад

Sacramento is better

@TerryHaleMizagorn 6 месяцев назад

Just stumbled across these amazing videos. Subscribed and will certainly be watching more. At one point (about Cascadia) you say "its beauty can't be understated". Pretty sure you mean it can't be OVERstated. 😊

@thebrownguy79 7 месяцев назад

Northern California has a HUGE Filipino population and you should have had them listed as part your graphic with the arrows crossing the Pacific.

@anthonypearce9652 7 месяцев назад

Great Video overall! As a Seattle Area resident, I guess I should point out a couple of things though: 1. When you mentioned the Columbia River, you could have mentioned that it is actually a very large trade corridor. It is a big part of the grain shipments you were talking about too! 2. Rail Connections to Seattle and Portland also bring a lot of trade in bulk goods like grain and minerals from the interior of the country. (And I assume in Vancouver too.)

@kathygann7632 7 месяцев назад

You have beautiful photos of Cascadia, but only one of them is common from September through June. It’s the one with dark clouds. It rains here- A LOT!

@Jjjaaahhnn 2 месяца назад

Much of the southeast and northeast U.S. gets much more rain overall. You guys just have lots of cloudy days with drizzle. It could be worse though Upstate NY and Michigan get lots of cloudy days with lots of snow. I like cloudy days though. It's relaxing and I don't feel bad sitting on my ass in the house.

@kathygann7632 2 месяца назад

@@Jjjaaahhnn At my house at Lake Samish, we get about 62 inches of rain a year, but rain never made us miss a family Christmas. Last year I was finally able to get on the freeway at about noon on the 24th after being snowed in for almost a week, and one year we never did get down.

@johnl5316 7 месяцев назад

Fla is the 2nd largest cattle state and has the largest cattle ranch by head of cattle

@jhhwild 7 месяцев назад

As a person who lives in the north part of California I consider that region Central California or The Bay Area.

@Trapezius_God 6 месяцев назад

Agreed - I never thought the Bay Area was NorCal

@jorgegonzalez-realestatein8558 6 месяцев назад

You should do a video of the southeast consisting of Atlanta GA, Nashville TN, Charlotte/Raleigh NC

@tankwipe 7 месяцев назад

Hi I enjoy your videos. You mentioned the danger of natural disasters in the Cascadia region but when talking about Florida no mention of the fact that large portions of the state will be submerged in the next 100 years due to sea level change. Also many insurance companies have already stopped doing business in the state.

@matthewlarson738 7 месяцев назад

It's funny that he talked about natural disasters in the PNW when Florida gets hurricanes pretty regularly. Despite having many stratovolcanoes the northern Cascades doesn't have eruptions very frequently. From somewhat recent geological study it was discovered the cascadia earthquake is set to operate on a 500 year cycle instead of 300 years. A smaller portion of the fault at southern Oregon has earthquakes every 2-300 years however.

@Qwert-abcdqwert 7 месяцев назад

Please make a video on North American Water and Power Alliance and Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal

@BlaBoy17 7 месяцев назад

Looking at the Cascadia map, it seems Yakima, WA is included, which is a big hop producer for the Cascadian range, and also the US and many parts of the world. It’s kind of sad to see that my city doesn’t get recognized for that, but it’s fine!

@bluepapaya77 7 месяцев назад

Going all the way to Yakima yet not including the Tri Cities seems like a weird choice. It should both or neither. It kind of stung when he only credited the Willamette Valley for the port of Vancouver's output, given that most of it comes from up the Columbia and Snake rivers.

@BuddyIsGarbage 7 месяцев назад

Looking at Northern California map, Fresno would be in it and the bottom of the Central Valley of it. But was never mentioned. He only talked about the Bay and briefly talked about Sacramento. As a Central Valley native, I can tell you no one here would ever think of us being in the same region with the Bay.

@BuddyIsGarbage 7 месяцев назад

Also, the Central Valley is huge on agriculture. But that was also never mentioned.

@tomrobertson3236 7 месяцев назад

He isn't a native to these regions He is just going by stats Don't worry

@BlaBoy17 5 месяцев назад

@@BuddyIsGarbageI feel like agriculture is just as important (if not more important) as economics and other things, as it keeps civilization alive.

@johndunkelburg9495 7 месяцев назад

Interesting that you extend Cascadia east across the Cascades to Yakima, which is one of the hubs of the Yakima Valley which has its own verdant agricultural production including a majority of hops used in the brewing of beer.

@mjrtensepian1727 7 месяцев назад

I thought so too. As a Seattleite, who lived in Eastern WA for many years, I *would not* include it; just seems too far removed. But maybe there's economic factors

@tredeep 7 месяцев назад

Just gotta say as a Nevadan calling Reno area part on NorCal is a bit of a stretch, not to mention an insult 😅.

@highway2heaven91 7 месяцев назад

It is the gambling destination for NorCal, afaik. I don't know how many people for NorCal choose to go to Vegas instead though.

@michael7054 Месяц назад

lol

@SagaciousSilence 7 месяцев назад

Cascadia is awesome. I think it’ll continue to be the region with the highest quality of life in the next 50 years.

@Orlando_Steve 7 месяцев назад

Absolutely. Anyone thinking of moving to Florida should move there instead!

@AUniqueHandleName444 7 месяцев назад

Sure, if you love crime, junkies, and general dysfunction. I was born in WA and spend the first ~30 years of my life in Cascadia -- I love it, it's my homeland, but it has some serious flaws and keeps getting worse.

@JJM_PNW 7 месяцев назад

No! Move to Florida instead. Please!!!

@mjrtensepian1727 7 месяцев назад

@@AUniqueHandleName444 I'm a Cascadia baby myself. Having traveled the rest of the country extensively, there's nowhere better in the US. Everywhere else is dumpier, more crime-infested, uglier, has less to offer. I spent years wanting to get out...until I did.

@AUniqueHandleName444 7 месяцев назад

@@mjrtensepian1727 Are you serious? Everywhere else is more crime infested and dumpier? That’s so hilariously out of touch with reality…did you just visit NYC and California? Utah and Idaho right next door are much cleaner, better built, and have dramatically lower crime. Colorado is less dumpy but has similar crime issues. The entire northeast outside of the megacities has much lower crime and is built to similar quality (albeit with generally larger home sizes and worse road layout) The upper midwest is better built and many parts of it have much better crime situations Lmao I can’t even

@Nardiumms 7 месяцев назад

What future do you see for the Front Range? Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, & Cheyenne, WY?

@kosjeyr 7 месяцев назад

What do you think would happen first?: A) A New Madrid Earthquake B) An Earthquake in Cascadia

@revinhatol 7 месяцев назад

4:35 And don't forget Gainesville!

@LE64SAM-IAM 7 месяцев назад

Ahh... Gator fan, are we? It DOES fall at #13 for largest cities in Florida, and, obviously, the largest for its region.

@revinhatol 7 месяцев назад

@@LE64SAM-IAM Eeyup!

@thesharinganknight9859 7 месяцев назад

GO DAWGS ⚫️🔴⚫️🔴

@paulbadics3500 7 месяцев назад

Great videos..very interesting..i do think however these 3 regions not quite as large & populous 1/ Cascadia..Vancouver being in Canada results in it not being nearly as "integrated" into rest of the region in terms of labour, commercial & industry 2/ North Cali-extending a bit far into rural central valley..SOCAL (SBar,LA,SB,SD) larger in population 3/Florida-dont think can combine SE coast with Tampa-Orlanda..completely seperate regions & Jacksonville too far away..so Miami SE coast while a major metro is a smaller "mega" region

@revinhatol 7 месяцев назад

FUN FACT: Jacksonville used to be the Film Capital of the world before Hollywood took over.

@thesharinganknight9859 7 месяцев назад

Now Atlanta is on the rise to take over that title now. I wonder what city next century is gonna take the title.

@tylerkriesel8590 7 месяцев назад

@@thesharinganknight9859I don’t think there will be a “city” but just wherever they want to film. Hollywood is outdated, you don’t need to hyper-centralize is places like that anymore.

@specialk2514 7 месяцев назад

Moved to FL 20 years ago from NY. We are getting choked out here. Too many people still moving to what is now one of the most unaffordable places to live in the US.

@dsa2591 7 месяцев назад

I've been in FL for more than 20 years, and I'm being economically pushed out. I can't afford for my COL to go up much more. Sadly, I'm hoping this economy will crash so I can afford to stay here.

@specialk2514 7 месяцев назад

@@dsa2591 It's a very serious situation and it's heart breaking for good folks who just want to live simply in the beautiful sunshine state.

@User1player 7 месяцев назад

Home insurance rates are also pretty insane

@ElJosher 7 месяцев назад

That is what happens when uncontrolled free movement and immigration is allowed. It creates a huge pressure in the housing market and job market. Things need to be taken slowly other wise things can go south quick.

@jasonknight5863 7 месяцев назад

@@specialk2514I get what you are saying but at the end of the day Florida is paradise as it has great weather all year around which is why increasingly the wealthy want to live that lifestyle that you’d get in California with the beaches …. only it’s less taxed. Florida is not the place to live if you work at Best Buy only if you live with mommy and daddy and they own their house. Kind of like Hawaii and California. The poor are more suited to live in the mid west as it’s less sought after, homes don’t rise in value because of supply vs. demand that is in Hawaii, Florida and California. 🌴🤷🏼‍♂️ What can I say you have to pay to play. Not everyone can afford Ferrari Maserati and Porsche. If you are on Toyota or Ford income Florida is not the place for you.

@mattr2626 7 месяцев назад

I've lived in Sacramento all my life and have to agree with many of the points made in this video. I'll try to remain as unbiased as possible and just say that San Francisco and the Bay are not somewhere many people are eager to move to in 2024. In fact, many of San Francisco's residents have been moving inward to Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, which is why we've seen a big increase in population here since covid. For all of its obvious flaws, Northern California specifically is worth it because the infrastructure here is simply too good to ignore, the weather is incredible year round, and despite popular belief there's not a whole lot of people unless you go out of your way to the Bay Area.

@TonyLeadholm 4 месяца назад

Grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, and now a 15 year Rosevillian (Sac Metro) - I wholeheartedly agree with the above post. The influx of Bay Area migrants to the Sac Metro Area has been quite considerable.

@iseewood 7 месяцев назад

I would add Bend/Central Oregon to the Cascadia region, too. It’s a rapidly growing region of the Northwest only 3 hours from Portland. Also, I think the biggest natural disaster threat to the Cascadia region is wildfires.

@dylancool8903 7 месяцев назад

No it’s not, we’re literally separated from everyone else. A whole mountain range separates us from Eugene, Salem Portland metro area Plus we have a big conservative influence in central Oregon! Eastern bend, Redmond, Prineville, Madras!!

@iseewood 7 месяцев назад

@@dylancool8903the creator placed Reno with Northern California and Las Vegas with Southern California even though those are 4 hour drives away and on the opposite side of the Sierra Nevadas and Mojave Desert, respectively. The creator also placed the entirety of Yakima Valley in the Cascadia region which is also east of the Cascades. Given that Central Oregon is dominated by the Cascade mountains, and tried economically to cities West of the Cascades, it seems like a logical add.

@brandon9172 7 месяцев назад

@@dylancool8903 What would eastern Oregon (and Washington) being conservative have to do with anything?

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

@@brandon9172I guess he hates cheap housing, maybe that’s why

@timcombs2730 23 дня назад

Nobody called the NW Cascadia until the hippie soccer teams used it. I hate that term it’s like calling the south Dixie

@seanmcdirmid 7 месяцев назад

Why does Cascadia seem to include Yakima? That's just a weird border to me.

@Brambrew 7 месяцев назад

Yet another reason to construct a high speed rail network across the USA. Europe and East Asia have a similar size, geography, and population to the USA and made rail networks work pretty well. In the USA, lawmakers are often just lazy or money grubbing, especially surrounding long-term infrastructure and city planning. In fact, the USA used to have an expansive passenger rail network until the end of WWII. After the construction of mega highways, massive parking lots, and capillary roads which cause congestion, urban sprawl, and loss of land for housing and other amenities, these rails are still in-use but only for cargo.

@zach464 7 месяцев назад

Agreed. Never should have given up on passenger rail here in the US. We'll have to go back to it whether we want to or not because the days of cheap and easy gasoline are over. Have been since about 2005. Maybe buy a few railway stocks and hold onto them for decades just to get ahead of the rush.

@paladin677 7 месяцев назад

94% of China's population lives in 36% of the land east of the Heihe-Tengchong Line. It'd be equivalent to a billion people living east of the Mississippi. So it isn't quite apples to apples. However, there is no excuse for these lines not existing in the population regions mentioned in the video. France probably has the right plan. Banning flights where HSR can travel in 2 1/2 hours or less. Air travel would connect the longer distances with each other. At the very least, it would be a much more attainable first step to implement in this country.

@highway2heaven91 7 месяцев назад

@@zach464 With the amount of HSR fans there are on YT, I wonder if the US would have invested heavily in HSR in the 60s and 70s when it was starting to take off if RU-vid had been around back then?

@seanthe100 7 месяцев назад

What?! They do not have similar populations and definitely dont have similar population densities.

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

No we dont, especially not through the rockies USA population is very spread out, chinas population is literally just on the coast, meanwhile we have seperate mega regions from great lakes all the way to florida all the way to los angeles etc. also high speed rail is only good for like a 200-300 mile intercity travel, beyond 500 miles it’s very slow, take a plane instead.

@geoffreygregory7152 7 месяцев назад

As someone from Reno they outta make trains that go from here to San Francisco I’ve had to take a bus down to Roseville and then a train to San Francisco because I didn’t wanna drive it was also $70 for a one way ticket

@highway2heaven91 7 месяцев назад

Agreed. Reno should be a part of the California HSR project. If Vegas gets a connection with Brightline, so should Reno.

@lanxy2398 6 месяцев назад

Cascadia I feel like has a ton of potential and i’m from the Northeast I think it’ll definitely gain leverage in the coming years

@tommunyon2874 7 месяцев назад

I, personally, find Vancouver to be the most beautiful city in North America.

@susancook1448 7 месяцев назад

Not to me! Try getting off a cruise ship and finding no taxis!

@tommunyon2874 7 месяцев назад

@@susancook1448 It is a walkable city, as my wife and I found out. Someone eventually offered us a lift by Stanley Park.

@joyfulgirl91 7 месяцев назад

@@tommunyon2874 also wonderful to explore by bike and motorcycle if you like them. I took a road trip from San Diego to Vancouver on motorcycle and I couldn’t have dreamed up a better destination to stay the weekend and rest up for the ride home.

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

I agree, I love seeing homeless people and drug addicts in Vancouver, scenic views.

@chuckleberrypieceofpie 6 месяцев назад

We need the next next megaregieions

@yaboimosh 7 месяцев назад

Why does the cascadia region not include Eugene I know it was in the empty coast region but what exactly is the criteria for it being in a certain region for another region?

@brianwhite1189 7 месяцев назад

Fully agree with you. It looks to me that he does really include the whole length of the Willamette Valley in his green-shaded map. I don't think he's implying the mega region stops at Corvallis, but it would include Eugene.

@killiemon 7 месяцев назад

Interesting to say Florida has the most coast line of all megaregions, I'd argue the great lakes region beats it (yes not quite the same, but really the only differences are Florida is more developed and the water is salt not fresh)

@jasonknight5863 7 месяцев назад

Lakes be it 12 or 15 thousand of them like in Minnesnowda for example aren’t really scenic and glorious coastlines like you’d have in florida with tremendous views and palm trees 🌴 and cooler ocean breeze. Without the issues of the Canadian wildfires all “summer” long even though it’s only 3 months. 🤷🏼‍♂️ when you’d want to look out at water views you can’t see it you see smoke 💨

@jasonknight5863 7 месяцев назад

But you right though in that Florida is more developed being that 1,150 people move to florida every day all throughout the year, year after year. The reason most lake areas are not is because no one wants to move there unless they are cheap or poor and don’t want to travel. So the uneducated.

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

@@jasonknight5863 "poor" Buddy, we have chicago and Minneapolis, with far higher gdp per capitas than Florida, We have the HIGHEST disposable Incomes IN THE NATION when adjusting for cost of living.

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

@@jasonknight5863and canadian wildfires are in the east, the middle side of canada is literally just plain and wheatfield.

@aimxdy8680 6 месяцев назад

⁠@@jasonknight5863and last time I checked, Most midwestern states has a far higher gdp per capita than Florida and better education.

@beback_ 7 месяцев назад

As a UF alum it was sad that Gainesville didn't get a mention :(

@Idahoguy10157 7 месяцев назад

Whats left of the discussion is Governance. Cascadia and Northern California officials refuses to enforce criminal and public health laws to keep it safe for those not privileged. This seriously adversely affects Quality of Life and safety for families not living in gated communities and affording private education.

@f.rodriguez8852 Месяц назад

I love my home which I call San Francisco Bay Area which includes the City and County of San Francisco, Oakland (OAK) in Alameda county, Southern Marin county (across the Golden Gate Bridge), San Mateo county (where SFO is actually located) and Santa Clara county (where Levi’s Stadium and Stanford University is located) and our largest city San Jose (SJO) is also known as the Capitol of Silicon Valley.

@PNWTruckCamper 7 месяцев назад

Like that Yakima and half of Tri cities is also included in Cascadia footprint

@RossSpeirs 7 месяцев назад

Woohoo Cascadia represent, from Sooke British Columbia west coast of Vancouver Island. Love the channel and the podcast, never miss em.

@LesliePajuelo 7 месяцев назад

It wasn't mentioned but on the map you included Fresno as part of the Northern California. Huh? why? what data did you use for that mega region? It's very sparsely populated between Fresno and Sacramento so it's not a contiguous sprawl-city

@TonyLeadholm 4 месяца назад

As a native Visalian, I was wondering the same thing. 🤨🤨

@roberttorres8477 7 месяцев назад

I live in the Bay Area and it’s crazy how every city is now connected from San Jose/Santa Cruz to Santa Rosa and Sacramento

@plantguy3346 7 месяцев назад

i live in Saceramento we have one of two inland ports the other one would be stockton Ca

@highway2heaven91 7 месяцев назад

Outside of maybe San Francisco and Vancouver (and Portland, Seattle and Miami to a lesser extent), many of these Megaregions might as well be called Megasprawl as almost none of these regions have much in the way of transit or urbanism to speak of. Especially Florida.

@nohlanfisherman5185 7 месяцев назад

And I feel Denver is going to be a new mega-city!

@hokkaidosnow6643 6 месяцев назад

Yep. I live in Tokyo and I'm From Washington. It's easier to go from Tokyo to Osaka, than Seattle to Olympia.

@thevictors6724 Месяц назад

this is really true ,i live in south east florida, and the "megaregion" is really just the miami metro ,swamps and little coastal towns to the next region, then more of such. its not like new york, or la or even Chicago where its miles of urban cities are morphed into one big area. The only real urbanism is within the individual cities themselves, especially the miami metro area

@FaithfulObjectivist Месяц назад

Enjoy the unique take on geopolitics as well as the new top knot.

@brucebanana4486 7 месяцев назад

Why is your map added to certain parts of Central Valley when we aren't part of Sac?

@jwil4286 7 месяцев назад

Nitpick: wouldn’t Eugene also be part of Cascadia?

@brianwhite1189 7 месяцев назад

@Jjames763 7 месяцев назад

Northern California doesn’t have a housing issue, it has a _zoning_ issue. People wanna make that bank on real estate appreciation.

@diegomontoya8889 7 месяцев назад

Extra 10 points for leaving the University of Oregon off the Cascadia institutions of higer learning list.

@matthewlarson738 7 месяцев назад

I thought that was pretty funny

@frankjoseph4273 7 месяцев назад

After Pueblo Colorado, drive south. You'll hit Trinadad, Raton ,Las Vegas NM. Nobody there.

@jakem.8608 7 месяцев назад

I love living in Northern California, It's so worth it. Very cool part of the country.

@cbpylant 6 месяцев назад

LMAO at him naming OSU instead of Oregon. ❤

@Edward135i 7 месяцев назад

Calling the coast of the PNW a MEGAREGION is funny to me, I think the same amount of people live in Oregon and Washington as they do in just LA County.

@keithk8275 7 месяцев назад

You'd be correct if you added Orange County. Also B.C. is included so there's that.

@seanmcdirmid 7 месяцев назад

@@keithk8275 Edit: they include Vancouver BC already.

@pauldavis1943 7 месяцев назад

Yeah....not sure it qualifies

@jaedenbaker4611 7 месяцев назад

I dont think the coastline is the focus of the megaregion although I agree that the region couldve just included the areas along i5 and nearby metros. Our coasts are pretty much just small isolated towns that I would hardly say feel interconnected to Portland or Seattle.

@timcombs2730 23 дня назад

It has a lot to do with the northwest having the same insecurities about California that Canada does with the US

@ekgrulez1 7 месяцев назад

Please be sure to include the Front Range megaregion, which is where I live in Colorado.

@FettiMagazine 7 месяцев назад

You forgot to mention Oakland. Great video nevertheless

@johnl5316 7 месяцев назад

Perhaps Stanford & UC Berkeley are the actual beating heart of that N Ca region

@Light67057 7 месяцев назад

im more confused by why the cascadia region includes a tail out to the east. are yakima and ellensburg really that important?

@jaedenbaker4611 7 месяцев назад

Thats what i thought about Reno. I mean i get that Lake Tahoe is a big resort area but can it really be considered the same area as San Fran and Sacramento.

@WesOEden 7 месяцев назад

So, Eugene isn't part of Cascadia? Seriously? The Eugene/Springfield area has over 230,000 people in it and is home to the University of Oregon.

@brianwhite1189 7 месяцев назад

@ryanmcdonald2117 7 месяцев назад

Do Canada 🇨🇦 Next

@truejacksonveep 5 месяцев назад

Forgot to mention how Florida has the top ranked public institution in the nation but discusses the Oregon schools😂

@Nathan_Lara 7 месяцев назад

Central Valley!! Underrated part of Cali. Born and raised there.

@johnd.2114 7 месяцев назад

I think it would be interesting if you could do a video on plains states, such as Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. While they don't technically form a part of any megaregion, they have a very stark east/west divide, with most of the population being in the former.

@highway2heaven91 7 месяцев назад

That would be interesting, especially when you add the larger states of Texas and Oklahoma to the mix since much of the population of these states also happens to live in the eastern halves as well.

@rickcobos1724 6 месяцев назад

This was largely addressed in the Empty/Underpopulated Belt video.

@paulkreeft2091 7 месяцев назад

When did you become a samurai?

@mjrtensepian1727 7 месяцев назад

I thouhg maybe he was going as a Troll(tm) for Halloween

@mi12no 6 месяцев назад

It’s not just Northern California. It’s the San Joaquin Valley from Tracy to Bakersfield

@paulmezzetta6905 19 дней назад

No mention of the numerous universities in San Francisco Megaregion. More than Cascadia Megaregion.

@jwetzel3141 7 месяцев назад

Also, after a massive disaster or war, the west coast is where you can live year round outside if necessary. Won’t freeze to death, won’t heat stroke out. It’s the best!

@andrewtaylor3167 7 месяцев назад

What happened to the Piedmont?

@rubbishrabble 7 месяцев назад

The map is scrambled. It should have Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville, and that comes out to at worst tied for fourth overall. The official entry on Wikipedia has Piedmont Atlantic way ahead of the Texas Triangle.

@flmcmil 6 месяцев назад

As a central floridian, I have to disagree with what Geoff said at 5:50 - that being Tampa is a place to get away from tourism. Having lived in Clearwater, I can say that spring break is still a crazy time of year and you see people from all over north america and the world. Sure, it's probably not as bad as Miami or Orlando, but I would look at Jacksonville, The Panhandle, and Okeechobee areas to really get away from tourists. That being said, I've heard from our local news station WFLA that Tampa and Orlando's metropolitan areas are predicted to merge within the next 20 years. With Lakeland and Winter Haven also growing, and even my small town of Auburndale right in between all of them, I predict it's true and yes Florida is, without a doubt, a mega-region. Good video!

@GrimmJaw496 7 месяцев назад

Puget sound from Olympia to Bellingham Washington is now suburbs from south to north uncontrolled growth has turned it into a LA with trees......Seattle is a shxt hole!

@Worldaffairslover 7 месяцев назад

I love how you cut off south and southeast Ohio, that’s Kentucky and West Virginia

@jomaka 3 месяца назад

The Great Lakes population megaregion is the largest at 59 million people. It will only expand due to the resources.

@yipmabaruya1148 7 месяцев назад

Good morning from PAPUA NEW GUINEA. I enjoyed watching your contents.

@mrwess1927 7 месяцев назад

@eresgal7802 Месяц назад

See the “cascadia” region in the thumbnail and think: Why are you including Wenatchee and Yakima with Western Washington? We have little in common besides belonging to the same state. It’s probably because they’re the apple and hops capitals of the country and makes the mega-region sound more economically diverse.

@hardyk2010 7 месяцев назад

that hairdo is classic Portland

@boneytiger5650 7 месяцев назад

So ATL showed on the thumbnail but isn't talked about

@punchnazis3498 7 месяцев назад

San Jose and silicon valley are part of the San Francisco Bay Area. This video makes it sound like they're separate, but they aren't.

@michelleb7399 7 месяцев назад

I was surprised to see the southernmost university in Cascadia to be OSU rather than UofO. As a generational Beaver loyalist, I am not complaining. Just surprised.

@JTL1776 6 месяцев назад

What if cascadia became a State.

@pepperonish 6 месяцев назад

Cascadia is mostly just the I5/99 corridor

@youbugginjit 3 месяца назад

Miami metro actually has over 6 million people

@surferdude44444 3 месяца назад

Don’t forget “Cascadia” has lots and lots of trees……..a renewable resource. Wood and paper products are a huge industry here…….it’s not all about Nike and Boeing.