Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line 

Yet, I'm amazed that upstate New York is rual

@@dans9463 Most of it is. Once California kicked off the Berkeley academic revolution during WWII most of the brains which did reside in upstate NY moved there. Now it's an area where there are some underserved populations (whom probably like it and don't care) and estates for the fabulously wealthy especially running up the Hudson river valley among the Appalachian hills. Ever since NY brought in high state taxes, regulation and began focusing on NYC and LI, most of the rural folks took off for Penn and westward or east into CT and Vermont. For example, artisans of fine cabinetry and custom craft still exist in upstate NY solely because the wealthy who buy estates there want that custom sort of thing so the demand for fine craftsmanship keeps them there.

@@miinyoo Thank you I guess Socialist distancing helps that area to maintain its natural characteristic.

Yeah, freaked a long-time friend out when I went to visit him (he lives in Massachusetts, BTW) by driving from Cape Cod to NYC. Worked out to about 125 miles one way. Which, by California standards isn't very much - it's not unusual for me to drive to the Colorado River for a day trip (about 160 miles one way). Bit of a different impression when I realized I'd driven in 4 different states in the 4 1/2 hours it took me to get there. 😳

Then take it a step further and go to western Canada that’s where I’ve always lived the closest city to the city where I grew up was an 11 hour drive

And where the conspiracy theorists- and republican rage grievance hysterics flourish 🦖☄️

Nice. My home

@@starcrib So you must be like a loyal dog to the Democrats, because despite the absolute shitshow that was bidens presidency and the fact that everyone has lost the little faith they had in him you still eat up their propaganda. Sorry I went into my political opinion, I'll delete it if you guys want, it would be hypocritical of me to keep it up.

@@starcrib Also, always bringing up politics in a video that has nothing to do with politics, congrats dude, your an outcast.

I didn’t know the history but leaving Lincoln traveling west really does feel like your entering something different entirely. East of Lincoln along I-80 your rarely a few hours from a major population center yet once you leave Lincoln heading west along I80 the next population center is Salt Lake City followed by Reno then Sacramento. It’s truly desolate.

Please leave our "flyover country" uninhabited. We do not need city slickers from NYC and San Francisco ruining it.

How long did it take you? What car did you drive in?, and how many miles did you drive?

@@mohit_zala_ It probably also depends on how much sight seeing you stop to do on the trip. 2-3 days if you only stop for pit stops and to sleep at hotels.

Yes, if potholes impress you then yes, it's very impressive! LOL

@@Play-dohMan Pubic comment section bud

I was born and raised in NYC but I’ve never been to California before. I hope one day I get to experience what it’s like to live in California because I have never traveled to the West Coast ever in my life. I only have been to East Coast states.

​@@mattr2626This is a very hairy comment section

​@@imreallyagoatBe sure to know how to drive. Public transportation is terrible here compared to NYC

@@DylanJo123Something interesting is that New Jersey is closer to New Hampshire and Vermont than the distance from New Jersey to North Carolina. NYC, Philly, are closer to Nunavut (Akimiski Island) than to Miami Florida.

I live in Indiana. Do you regret leaving or is life better?

@@Soldierboytrey life is IMMEASURABLY better since I left Indiana. The weather is better out West, the people are more diverse and easy going, there is less religious bigotry, I make more money, and there are endless free things to do in Las Vegas, where i spend the winter, and Montana, where I spend the summer. To boot, I am what most people would call poor. I make about 20 dollars an hour as a Chef. I was on the verge of suicide living in Indiana. I feel as though I have been born again out here. I will never go back to Indiana and I rarely talk to anybody from Indiana because I have already heard their piece. Everything... I mean EVERYTHING is better out West.

@@coryphillips7945 Indyanimal for life!

@@coryphillips7945, one of the best things I did after being fired from my electronics job in 1991 was to go to truck driving school. Eleven weeks after I started I had my Commercial Drivers License. Things only looked up from there. The guy I was working for before going to driving school even tried to get me to come back to work for him. I was enjoying myself too much going to new places and meeting new faces. Over the years some became friends.

@@coryphillips7945 People who abandon their past and have no family/friends to speak with usually indicates YOU were the problem.

Lmao true

It's like he discovered adjectives and now cannot stop filling the script with them... while narrating in the most over the top way possible.

@@soundscape26 Yeah it is hard to not hear now that it's noticed. I do hope he continues though, gives him fun character amongst some of the other similar channels...

@@DoodleDangWang I mean, only if he wants to be the Jar Jar Binks of the geopolitical channels.

😂🙏

Thankyou my friend for sharing that. It sounds amazing. Im from the UK but if i lived in America id love to be way out west with open space all around me.

Loved Wyoming driving through!

Very interesting what year did you head west?

@@timhorrocks3515 come Tim. I'm headed west to the Rockies myself soon. NYC metro area is not what it once was. 👍

@@nyy1960 This happened in 2013. I moved to Portland, OR for a 1 year contract job. I've since moved back to the east coast though!

Irrigation is the only reason that desert cities can exist.

I'm not sure about Phoenix, but Vegas is mostly a product of the Mob from California who ran gambling rings getting outlawed, and thus moving in to Nevada in a part of the state where there was no regulation due to being unincorporated territory.

I live in Phoenix. We often joke the only reason it exists was because air conditioning was invented. It would be absolutely inhospitable otherwise. Arizona actually gets the majority of its water from underground reservoirs, not so much from the Colorado.

I know someone else also answered, but vegas is also there because of Hoover dam as well, since it gave a more consistent source of water

I once drove from Fargo, ND, to Seattle Washington. And even up north, where there is absolutely no "desert" anywhere on the map, that vast stretch of region is so sparsely populated that, for a while, as I was driving across North Dakota/Montana at night, you could not see ANY city lights, on the horizon, and the sky was so clear from light pollution that you could see the milky way band CLEARLY! It was literally like driving across the surface of the MOON, in some locations! All you had was the interstate, and even then, you rarely passed any other vehicles going either way! It was so eerie, I remember actually getting to Boise, Idaho, and finally feeling relief at the sight of significant human population! lol

Canada is the same way. It's like the Outback but not as extreme. Gotta stay networked to the coast.

@@Nyder I know about Canada, I just didn't know about the states.

@@ludicrousmodel3173 And in Canada I would imagine the vast majority of the population lives within less than an hour and half drive of the the border. Once you get too north the areas become a lot colder and less inhabitable.

Philly, NYC, are closer to Nunavut (via Akimiski Island) than to Miami.

​@@joemckim1183yes it's true, but we also have the same lack of moisture drying out our interior, plus it's cold north of the Great Lakes in the east, so once you start going west of Toronto, population gets very sparse. The line shows up going to Winnipeg here in terms of precipitation, but it begins earlier in Canada due to temperature, even though Winnipeg is far more wet than anything west of it (until BC) Western Canada is extremely sparse. Vancouver is nice, I grew up here, but I am jealous of the many other places in the world where there are places to go within easy distance by road or rail. It takes 4 hours by train (if you're lucky) just to get to Seattle from here, and as much as I like Seattle it isn't too terribly different. And forget going anywhere else in Canada - the Canadian only runs twice a week, costs a lot, and won't get you anywhere quickly. Though it is a nice journey in itself - I enjoyed it - but not super practical to actually get somewhere.

I completely get it! I live in Colorado Springs at 7000 ft and found it amusing the tallest mountains in east coast are lower then where I live hahaha😊

@@alvaroperez7879are you from South Park?

which town

@@BlueLeaf01I live in Seattle and he didn’t ignore it

Wow. I didn't even know that. And I'm so glad I don't live in NYC anymore! Never again.

@@msjannd4 And I miss it every day. It is definitely not for everybody.

American geography wasn't his strong point I guess 🙂

@@rossco76tait48 Or he just lives in New York and never leaves. He could’ve been British they can go from one part of the country to another in the span of 5 to 6 hours. They think a 45 minute drive is an eternity. Too funny. Meanwhile I routinely drive 13 hours to go visit my family when I don’t feel like dealing with flying around.

just moved, learned this the hard way😭

Salt Lake City is interesting. Basically one seemingly endless collection of cities and suburbs for over 100 miles from north to south, all tied together by a busy 10-18 lane freeway (Interstate 15). However, you can travel east-to-west in 10-15 miles and be completely surrounded by either forests and mountains to the east, or desert to the west. Nothing else like it in the US. Puget Sound sprawls for well over 100 miles north-to-south as well, but east-to-west sprawl isn't quite as narrow as it is in Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front region.

Yeah I live in a small town in western Maryland and it’s nice living in a small community. I could never live in a big city but i would like to Live on the outskirts of one. I would love to visit the west coast though

Meanwhile I'm sick of NYC and want to live in a small town or a less populated area

@@NicotineRosberg I have a cousin who lives in nyc and I could never do it, for me personally the politics and the people are the worst along with the liberal mayor. Since I’ve always lived in a smaller community I’m definitely more conservative than liberal and especially with all the Covid shit and booster shots I couldn’t deal with that bullshit, but that’s just my opinion. Although I think you would be much happier in a smaller community you can really take in the sights and sounds of nature and just the world around you so much more. You won’t wanna live in a big city again

You should really visit NYC. It's truly magical. Lived in Hells Kitchen for 3 years.

Did you see SLC or St. George?

@@SamuelSamuelSamuel1 SLC is amazing to see when you breach the mountains in the middle of the night. It's like a city came out of literally nowhere.

Highly recommend east / west road trip. Don't go with a set plan if you can. Take two weeks to do it. There's a lot to discover, little nooks and crannies of food and culture all along the way. Every 200 miles is different. Goes to show that America with all it's claims of unity is very much a diverse place. (unless you're in the cities which are much more homogeneous culturally)

It's a good thing you specified that Vermont is in the northeast.

I’m straight

@@benrobinson1544 I’ve been to Washington as well, and I watched the same video with the same rainfall data as you did. I know the entire west isn’t a desert, but that experience of heading due west in the southern US is really something.

Rain? Dense forests? What are these foreign concepts? -someone born and raised in the LA region

@@bluesbest1 Griffith Park in January; its an approximation, but should help you get there.

@@bluesbest1 angeles national forest is nice when its super foggy.

@@YourLoyalDeserter you forgot thunder and lightning and wind. we have newcomers to the state who wondered if our spring weather was normal.

48 states? I guess the 2 states you haven't visited are Alaska and Hawaii?

Agreed, I've lived back East and thought it humorous when my cousims went Camping and put on lumberjack attire and kitted out with every conceivable gadget. There are no mountains compared to the Rockies or Sierras and certainly none that match the sheer beauty of the grand tetons.

I drove from LA to Portland Oregon along the coast and in Washington and Oregon there were stretches where it was just forest and trees for 2 hours without anything. Forest so dense it blocks out the sun and makes the road look dark. Then one time i flew from from Houston to Anchorage Alaska and when you're over the border between Canada and US you look down and see nothing but endless trees

It's gorgeous

It is lovely.

@@ari_california8873 I want to do that drive someday.

You should come, I'll show you around. America is really weird because there are so many different cultures and attitudes. Think you understand America by visiting NYC, drive 50 miles north, and it's completely different

@@CharlieKellyEsq ...or 50 miles south of DC.

@@CharlieKellyEsq Yep even within a single state it can be crazy. Here in SC and the lowcountry region differs a good bit from the upstate.

@E Van visit India and you would find the same every state different language and culture

@E Van Last thing I would do is take them to New England or Utah, best to go to NYC and actually experience what the city has. Of course, most people from outside the city only pay attention to everything down town.

Utah is a state that I wish every state looked like

Oregon is even more extreme. The southeastern quarter of the state is almost completely empty and isn't really used for anything except ranching and mining. The land south of US 20 and east of US 395 (almost 18,000 sq. miles) has literally just 2 incorporated towns, both close to the Idaho border.

Until you get to Spokane. Then the trees lakes reappear.

@@DDBurnett1 I've seen maps that place that part of Oregon in the Great Basin, so that makes sense.

True I live near seattle and near there there is a lot of things so its not that different from the east coast, but once you get out of that little bubble around seattle its basically like a desert cause I had to drive all the way across washington for a game in Spokane once it was pretty crazy

Yeah, you got that right. I learned this from going to Seattle, WA back in the summer of 2009, and then going to Twisp, WA back in the Winter of 2018. It's like 2 totally different worlds.

And the latest referendum, and to avoid this getting too political I won't say what it was about, proved sort of like all Kansas elections prove. If you want a Republican ballot initiative or candidate to win you have to hope for mass turnout west of Wichita and average to below average turnout in Johnson, Shawnee, Riley, Douglas, Wyandotte, and Sedgwick counties. If you want a democratic initiative or candidate to win you are going to want massive turnouts in those counties and average to below average turnout in the west. In future, there may well be an Illinois effect in Kansas where Kansas is largely rural and Republican while the KC metro turns the state -at least in the senate- more purple or even light blue.

I live on the western border, its a night and day difference. I love where I live but its dry as fuck, and the farmers needing to irrigate only makes getting water harder as our watershed gets abused slightly it seems like with larger areas daming up the tributaries and stuff. Tho idk how much of that is true.

As a Minnesotan I am always so shocked when I go to one of the Dakota's. It's truly mind boggling how different everything is. The terrain, the vegetation, the amount of water, and thus the people. To anyone that lives near this line their is no mystery as to why it exists.

Oregon is like this too

@@naddarr1 I'm currently living in Minnesota, and you're absolutely right about this one! I've spent my whole life around The Line and it's crazy how rain changes everything.

That’s really neat thanks for that tidbit

Aspen and Birch there?

Funny how being from Cali it doesn’t seem like we’re isolated. But then again I’m in the LA area so it’s just always busy and slammed everywhere. But we are surrounded by deserts if we want to go anywhere.

@Buck Rothschild I grew up in Utah, and you'd hear the same things there. Now I live in California.... and I gotta say most Californians are friendlier than most Utahns I've met. But you're right, the same problem effects Wyoming, Utah, and even California. Water. And it's so frustrating that at least when it comes to my family back home, they don't see the connection to pollution, climate change, and drought. A lot of us out on this side of the country are literally shooting ourselves in the foot.

@@Evil_Chronic I live in the Bay Area, and it feels like that here too, but it's crazy how you just go a little ways out of from San Francisco and it's immediately desolate. Was the same when I used to live in Phoenix. But I went to school in Nashville, and going out there you really see the difference. You leave the city, but you still see signs of human life everywhere.

@@anthonydelfino6171 I used to live by sac till I was bout 10, but now I live in Reno. Over here, if you just cross into a neighboring valley, it's completely devoid of civilization.

@@Evil_Chronic It definitely doesn't feel like we're isolated since we're in the middle of a fully developed island, but once you drive north on the Interstate 15 up to Barstow and Baker or travel east to like Anza-Borrego it truly does feel desolate out there. People in Perth, Australia probably feel the same way since they're surrounded by the Outback.

And then, there's NEVADA. What made them the hooker state?

Gen Xer I presume ?

@@jason9035 u should join me detective

A romantic idea with an enormous carbon footprint

@@lifeonahilltop fair enough.

When traveling out west, always take extra gas. I learned the hard way, in my old 94 suburban SMH

Those of us who have driven the Alaska Highway can sympathize. There are one or two areas where if you get to the gas station and it's closed for the night, everybody just sleeps in their car in the parking lot because going forward is not an option.

Sounds like your kid isn't a math major

@@dustinkymalainen8756 Dustin, you've got style.

Not getting gas was a gamble with no odds of winning. I guess hindsight is 20/20 though.

@Joshua Stein As a railfan, I find this interesting. I often use Google Maps to discover long abandoned railroad right of ways. You can often see paths of coal dust that still show up on the map's despite the fields having been plowed over many times by the farmers. Plus tree lines often follow former right of ways. 🙂

If you ignore those signs once, even if you have a little more than a half of tank of gas, you will never do it again.

@@GMAMEC Yeah. I was a company driver, so they always made sure I had enough gas to get through those areas. Twice I stopped to top off while above half tanks and it didn't take much to understand why after seeing the signs.

@@GMAMEC When I drive to or from L.A. and Maine, I trip plan all my fuel stops. I make sure my fuel stops are 330 miles or less, which leaves me with an ¼ tank of fuel. I only stop at Costco, Sam's Club, or large travel centers. I set Google Maps from fuel stop to fuel stop as I cross the country.

@@GMAMEC I had a little over 3/4 tank and branched off of 80 for the non-trucker hiways and barely made it out of the mountains in Oregon. Told my experience of great anxiety to the nice mountain gal working at the restaurant/gas-station and she said she's seen people show up in tears. Once I even get near that that no-man's line... I'll top off at every gas station I see. Prolly gonna take a 5 gallon gas can too for me and any stranded poor souls.

Wow. 😳 The West is wateted via snowmelt. Of which, is dwindling. I can't imagine just nothing. I cross WA, and at least there are farms and incredible geological/geographical featuresto keep you company.

I was born in AZ and I live here now! I wanna move east so bad

I am born and raised in AZ and just moved to FL and to say the least I'm shocked! The landscape and cities are a lot different than I expected.

@@emmyrose333 do you like it ? or no

LMAO that's what Muricans count as culture? No wonder you're so dumb and fat

@@shinyy160 Yes I love it. I love the ocean, the water and rivers, more people means more things to do, and everything is within walking distance or a short drive. Although one thing I already miss about AZ are the mountains and vast land of the Southwest. You can camp basically anywhere in AZ and drive for hours down old two track roads and not see a soul, you can truly get lost in the woods there.

Good point. This may explain the difference between how I get gas and my husband gets gas. He's from the east coast and is always fine with whatever, but I'm always wanting to fill up before I get too close to 1/4 tank....sometimes 1/2. He would low-key mock me on road trips.

So true! I remember freaking out thinking I was going to run out of gas on a cross country trip.

maybe back in the day, now they have those trucking stops at least every 50 miles or so

@@hames100 yeah it’s been awhile back since I’ve been out west so that’s good to hear.

Can confirm, I'm a trucker that goes to all 48 states. There's no interstate where you will be driving 4 to 5 hours without fuel.

It's interesting you mention Lake Tahoe as that's a special place we visited often as a family in my youth especially. Always felt like a magical escape from the city life. To take the trip all the way from TN to Tahoe would be like a moving psychedelic experience! I'm actually ready to leave the west for various reasons with TN as a primary location in mind. I'll be going the opposite direction from coast to desert to mid-continent and east of the 98th parallel. God bless you and yours.

For real! I've done a west coast road trip and an east cost, and going along the eastern coastline you just got town after town, there's so much to see and do constantly. VS the west coast where you can spend 6 hours driving and just see trees & desert

And some says earth is overpopulated when in fact there are plenty of land to live

​@@majkbajk8411 Whether land is overpopulated depends more upon available resources per person than upon available land per person.

I have the opposite feeling. I’m from that dark zone. Going where people live so close to each other gives me anxiety.

Sounds like a stressful place to live with no privacy 😜

Lived in Eastern WA most of my life and I love it here.

Spokane is so dry next to Seattle

I’m an Oregonian (Hey neighbor!) 😀👋 and yes, it’s the same here. People only ever think of “rainy Portland” (Oregon, not Maine) and they never think about the vast diversity in landscape and climate/weather throughout the state. The Pacific Northwest truly is a natural wonder to behold 💎

Spokane is the best for militias

I love the diversity tho. Great state for hiking a variety of terrain if you're willing to drive a few hours.

I got my BS in geology at ISU. Turns out that he kicked off his expedition to the Grand Canyon from the building most of my courses were in. Really cool dude!

He was a badass... He must have been an interesting teacher.

I’m from the Grand Canyon and John Wesley Powell is an icon there. First to navigate through it. Powell point on the west rim and Lake Powell on the east.

I first heard of him watching this video. He was brilliant and his advice should have been followed. State lines should have been drawn based on the availability of water instead of doing something as stupid as drawing straight lines through the landscape.

Hmm... It could be random coincidence, but could the university (Illinois ...WESLEYan... University) be named for him and/ or family of John Wesley Powell?

Not so accurate tho atleast when it comes to Finaland, like sure most live on the south but for me 90% of people I know are from white area :D

@@leevikaunismaa9652 I have no idea what you're talking about lmao, but imagine that race, gender and wealth (?) was also factored in on this study and a clear inclination came out 😱 there might be... in each country... omg if only I were an anthropologist or smth 😩🤌✨

Agreed!

You need to get out more!

@@uncensored5104 I mean I don't wanna drive 400km to the "zone" where people live😁

There's a sign next to my house that says 'Next Services 100 miles'

Ahhh gotta love I-80 haha. Yeah from Grand Island Nebraska to Salt Lake is pretty much nothing. Then again from Salt Lake to Reno

Driving west of Grand Island really does have a “Here be dragons” vibe.

I live in Reno, a city in Nevada maybe 40 mins away. Anytime I go up to Tahoe I still am in awe of how beautiful it is

I know what you mean. I was just In awe of the beauty and grandeur.

Also in some places in Wyoming you can still see the milkyway. It's really faint from my experience though. The best place I've ever seen the milkyway was on an island the boyscouts bought in the Florida Keys. Being 3 miles out from the Keys and Miami being over 130 miles away was pretty effective. Though I could see a glare in the sky looking in that direction, the side we slept on was facing the ocean.

@@Skylancer727 Remote parts of Vermont and Maine also do well with showing the night sky. On the road trip, we were camping near the Grand Canyon, far from town, and so we were able to see the Milky Way and thousands of stars that we don’t normally see at all.

I love upstate New York for many reasons and visited the Adirondacks a lot over several years. But I am a child of the Nebraska--the Great Plains--and am always happy to return.

​​@@Skylancer727 , was the Master Scout of the island happened to be named Jeffrey Epstein ?

Guests from Ireland were shocked s well. We went from coastal Oregon to the SE corner of the state where it is a very dry desert. One remarked that it was hard to believe that it was the same country.

As someone who has lived in Washington State my whole life I can confirm you are not alone in your discovery. Even people who live in the middle and eastern part of the US are shocked to find that we have a desert in Washington State. But like most areas- the most populated are the areas that the media covers. I didn't know that New York state has some very rural and scenic backcountry in the middle of it. Same with Pennsylvania. On the west coast almost all we hear about regarding the northeastern US is New York City, Boston, Washington DC.

@@paulsmith5611 You make a good point. When I was 18 and moved to south-central Pennsylvania - I was expecting suburbs. Instead what I got was the Appalachians and country music!

WA has ocean, rivers, lakes, mountains, volcano, forests swamps, and desert. It's pretty diverse, but the state too is split in two vertical halves.

I was born in upstate New York and moved to Washington state lol. I lived in Canada too. Enormous empty countries

@Buck Rothschild why did you respond to my comment with a whole story about how you hate Wyoming?

@@nomaderic I kind of enjoyed his story

@Buck Rothschild That took a lot of effort to read wall of text and I disagree, if you look anywhere in the nation, cities have generally democrat politics and the surrounding countryside have generally republican politics. The assumptions you make are based on your familiarity and political bias. In reality, it's a cultural thing. Cities are generally more homogeneous and necessarily dependent but are commerce nexuses with the rest of the world while the countryside just wants to be left alone for the most part.

@Buck Rothschild your family must be part of the 1%

@@miinyoo exactly thank you! what a wasted monologue and long ass boring diatribe and espoused garbage that buck rothchild typed up. keep crying Buck! its ok! stay where your at! wyoming doesn't need you! stay in your little metropolitan tik tok colorful culture "open-minded, diverse secular, athiest, marxist" bullshit bubble. the big cities are usually the ones to go first in a war anyways. nuked, bio-hazard crisis, marshall law instituted etc. while the small grassroot outskirt towns will still be around and able to fend for themselves and come together as a small tribal community. whereas in a big ass city... its every man and family for themselves and everyone devolves into animals... absolute total break down of society in a big city. freeways exiting the city would be totally shut down jam packed due to everyone wanting to leave the city all at once. hahahahah. no thank you! ill stay in my little mountainous town high up in elevation surrounded by mountains on all four sides. keep your big city unelected beaucratic policies out of my life! As the Great Tommy Lee Jones once said as Kay in Men in Black 1: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.

I cant imagine driving 5 hours straight, thats such a waste of time

@@williamwoolf8072 I had no choice, I was moving up north. I have to drive a Uhaul 14hrs with all my belongings

What kind of vehicle did you drive i'm curious not many can go past 300 miles without needing to refuel

I'm not in the US, but driving from Baja California to Baja California Sur is basically a 7hr long drive full of nothing after Ensenada. Maybe a very small town every now and then but its basically empty desert until you get to the state border with BCS, after that thats another 6-8 hours of nothingness until Mulege and even a few more hours until Cabo. People say Nevada is empty, but heck, they have never seen this old empty peninsula below California.

Nevada is so strange. I'm on the coats and it's only about a 6 hrs drive, ye such a massive change

As an E. WA native myself, I love the insane variety of our state. The only place I found to be about as geographically diverse was Afghanistan. Where you have the vast deserts of Kandahar, and then high peaks surrounding Kabul. There were days where it would be 90-100 degrees in Kandahar and just 200 miles NE in Kabul it would be snowing. Such an incredible planet we have.

I was shocked to see Mattawa on one of these videos. Lived there for a few years. Now I’m on the wet side.

I'm from Minnesota and we took a road trip to Seattle. South Dakota and Montana were pretty much the same throughout each state. Washington was different. Spokane and Seattle seemed like they were in two totally different states it was pretty unbelievable.

Dude I do the drive from Spokane to Gig Harbor and back once a month. It is literally mind boggling how the environment changes. We once took a friend from Japan on the road with us and she was completely astonished to see how it changed from one part of the state to another

Washington has pretty much every type of land form. From desert to rain forest. Washington also has the most glaciers of any state besides Alaska and has the largest ferry system in the U.S. The drive between Spokane and Seattle is pretty varied.

From San Diego to Oregon border is a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG drive.

Fun Fact: If you travel from El Paso to the Eastern border of Texas on I-10 it will take more than 12 hours (approx 866 miles)

I'm Canadian and drove across from Ontario to B.C in 3 days.... most of the country

@@treetopjones737 yeah fr man even sleeping through it dont work

@@dnholmestyle3772 don't sound like fun to me

Too much smog nowadays for me. LA just infects so much of the west with its smog and way too many people

I agree. I live in L.A., and I fly and drive to and from Maine a few times a year. Yes, everything is lush and green in the East, but it's boring. Farms, trees, and maybe a few rolling hills for hours and hours along with oppressive humidity. The West is so diverse and the scenery always changes. And the weather is dry too.

WOW. That's pretty neat.

Haha I'm in the west right now but I really miss the South. I find the culture to be more friendly (though most people out west are very kind as well) and the biodiversity is much more vast and fascinating. There just aren't as many types of birds out here. I miss lots of rain too like this video talks about.

@@jerradwilson There's cool geology in Maine, New York and elsewhere, but you have to look harder. Or, maybe, take a step back and let the subtle differences start to sink in.

Great info!

Does it rain less at higher altitudes or something? That wouldn't make sense to me because any mountains I've been to are always 10x greener than the land next to them

Also the eastern pacific ( west coast of us) is cooler and brings in much less moisture than the warm Atlantic does in the east. Why we don’t have hurricanes out west.

@@negativenarwhals mountain ranges force air up where it cools. Cold air holds much less water so it rains and leaves the area after the mountain range very dry

Pacific moisture is what waters the West. The Gulf of Mexico provides moisture for the Midwest. The Atlantic only affects the East Coast.

Come to Great Falls MT. Tons of flat prairie that’ll never run out. Plus you have huge mountain view’s like Denver CO. Tons of water

@@montanaman2439 the best area is flathead valley.

People hate walking uphill. Most need level spaces to function.

Wow.. ok i know idaho.. can you explain lombard street in sanfrancisco? It just doesn make much sense. Also as far as stop signs hills do not seem to matter there.

Yes, I agree 😀

California is bigger than Japan.

I wonder if they subconsciously want to live as fast as possible from Russia….. and North Korea?

Ontario, Canada has left the chat.

True, I droved from Chicago > Texas, LF/SFO, the U.S is so huge i can't barely find houses outside city

I once had to drive from San Diego to north of Sacramento to pick up my sister. I thought I'd never get there.

Big feet require big water.

They like rivers, and BIG fish. Just ask 'em.

It is hard for Bigfoot to hide behind a cactus or tumbleweed.

He needs water to fuel his spaceship so it makes sense he'd be where there's water.

bigfoot can be explained by "people are skittish and gullible. OMG DID YOU HEAR THAT!? BIGFOOT!"

If you grew up with lush vegetation, wetlands, and the bio-diversity of Eastern forests, you might have a different opinion. The sheer dryness of most of the West is off putting to me.

@@ryanjacobson2508 I am currently living in the foothills of the Appalachians right now. It's very beautiful but I feel it lacks the enormous raw and wild feel that the west has.

@@ryanjacobson2508 I moved from Eastern Pennsylvania to South West Idaho. I must say I appreciate the dry because it’s not as suffocating as the humidity I’m used to. I feel as if I can breathe and sit in awe of the marvelous landscapes. It isn’t for everyone .. . I’ll say that. But I much appreciate the low population.. feels safer somehow

Like the old saying, "a hundred miles is a long way in Britain but a hundred years is nothing." Pretty much the opposite in the U.S. I worked for a British company for several years, traveled to London many times and was amazed how Brits were so unaware of how large the U.S. was. I drove across England in about 2 hours once, bizarre how small it was but how crowded it is.

@@MrArtist7777 I am going to use that saying, I have never heard that before

Take this line of thought, and apply it to the lower 48 States and Alaska. Alaska is comparable to 20% of the rest of the states by area yet contains 0.25% of the population. It is incredibly vast and beautiful and empty asf. Even more mind blowing is Hawaii. Alaska by area is 90x the size of Hawaii, yet Hawaii has twice as many people.

so who cares. uk and brits are an insult to the world. One of the worse things that could exist

@@zazzyzzz yah, I mean, only a true degenerate would use just two letters, the first and last one, to disguise illiteracy. How sad. Thankfully we are happy to open the door to a fulfilling life, as I will gladly share my hooked on phonics cassette. You're welcomed!

Right? I visited Phoenix and Prescott a few years back and the environment and landscape were so strange to me as someone who's lived in Indiana their entire life. It was pretty interesting, but not something I got used to.

@@MrFfuckUp Yeah I definitely felt the same way. On my trip we traveled north to Yellowstone national park and it was crazy how much the environment changed just from going in that direction. Still very dry, but less red rocks.

@@MrFfuckUp Prescott is awesome. What about the landscape was strange?

@@NVSC10 Just in general I'm not used to seeing mountains or desert.

I work at the airport in Phoenix. I get a chuckle from all the people taking pictures of the local mountains through the windows. Dull red rock without a spot of green on them. People seem almost shocked how arid the city is. Then they put their hand against the glass and their eyes widen from the heat radiating off (in the summer.)

You said this like the lack of population density is a good thing

due to relations i do hold a united states passport and i would not want to live there because of the helth systim lack of safty net and work life balince but on a cold dark winter day i do fantsize about living in florda

@@forestkane_ you've clearly never been to the United States.

@@joesmith8701 you don't know what you're talking about. I'm an American. I've lived in Brazil, Mexico, Canada, India, and Australia. Despite the expensive healthcare the US is still by far better than those other countries. Free healthcare simply means you get what you pay for. . .which is nothing. I got food poisoning in Brazil once and waited in the most uncomfortable waiting room you can imagine for 10 hours before being treated. It was free but it was miserable. From that point forward I've always taken advantage of the private healthcare available in third world countries like Brazil because it's 100 times better despite the fact that it costs money.

nothing to do with luck. They committed near genocide to get it.

My brother lives in Sibley

@@ZombieBacon13 When I see a comment such as yours I have to wonder: 1) What percentage would that be that is a cesspool? Do you have a number? 2) Where have you been in California that you could make such a sweeping statement like that? I was in several San Francisco neighborhoods and in Piedmont before Christmas and I saw neither human waste nor putrefying organic matter on the streets. Perhaps this was not the area that you know. BTW, Yosemite, Sequoia and Muir Woods were really beautiful.

@@rr7firefly you pay more for everything. That's the biggest problem I see with Cali. And water can be an issue. Housing is absurd. New York, and DC only come close for housing costs. The west overall is pricey unless you are in the middle of nowhere.

@@mrmr3343 I cannot argue with you for citing super high costs for many things. In the past I was very lucky to find affordable apartments. Some were ideally located and I loved the time I spent in them. But, that is mostly a thing of the past. It helps if you have a network of friends who can steer you to good things. That really was my good fortune -- having connections. Right now I do not live in the Bay Area, but I go there on business and get a chance to revisit old haunts. FYI: I am NOT in the tech industry.

you must love cold weather

I'm a trucker as well but I reside outside of Albuquerque. It's too cold in the dakotas for me. I like 70- 80 degrees I can't stand freezing temps

@@eagle25311 me too

I also live in the Black Hills

It's pretty wild to me that with few exceptions, tornadoes don't exist anywhere in the world outside of the USA

@@User31129 Not Entirely true. However the United States does make up about 75% of All the World's Tornadoes. In fact, there was a tornado in another country. In Asia somewhere recently, if I'm remembering correctly.

@@User31129 Tornados regularly form in all of Europe, South Africa, Philippines, Bangladesh, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, and far eastern China. They normally refer to them as Cyclones - but they are, alas, what Americans call Tornados.

@@AmyC37217 Cyclones most often refers to hurricanes not tornados. The rest of the world get 200-300 tornados a year. The US averages over 1000 a year. The tornados are often (but not always) bigger and stronger in the US than in other countries as well.

Interesting!

Driving up and down the west coast I love seeing the shift between states. Leaving Oregon and entering California the dividing line literally was the break between dark grey sky's and mountain to sunshine and open spaces

Many moons ago I drove from the Houston area to New Mexico and I had to turn on the A/C at 07.30 am @ 76 F and turned it off in Van Horn about nine hours later at ~94 F, humidity sucks!

Really?

been there done that

I noticed the same thing driving from east to west on Interstate 70.

You're right anything east of Yakima should be considered Idaho lol.

Haha as a spokane native I agree lmao 🤣 still love Washington state and wouldn't trade it for anything else!

unbelievable how much fuckin fast food spokane has too right?

Grew up on the westside and now live north of Spokane. I much prefer the northeast part of the state. The westside has become incredibly "peopley" since the early 90's. Rat race🐀🏎

Yakima The Palm Springs of Washington

@@singingwindrider9881 No. Men don't exist north of Chicago. Duh.

I assure you your ancestors didnt go there to farm, lol

That's nice. The last time I was in Wisconsin in summer, it was about 60 and overcast. The time before that, 90+ and dry. Still better than southern California, where winters are in the 80s and summers are unbearable. Western Washington - that's what I call home. Rains and green in spring, warm days in summer, changing colors in autumn and cool -cold days in winter with a bit of snow.

You have a German last name (German and Norwegian can be similar). Jaeger meaning hunter.

My favorite vacations were Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and Door County. I chose those places over OBX, Myrtle Beach, Destin and Gulf Shores. I'm from CA so beaches weren't a must see at this point. I grew up in a concrete jungle. Seeing trees and green colored landscape was calming. Low humidity and tolerable heat was comforting. Fortunately, I just live a few hours away and can escape their as needed.

When I spoke about a woman from Texas (TEX-sis) , my friend replied, "One day, they will divide Texas into two States. THEN, TEX-sis will have the honor of being the country's THIRD largest State. " Wow!

Michigan is socialist hell now , thanks die- versity .

@@Zerox_Prime r/ihadastroke

Growing up in suburban md, then living in Alamogordo, NW for a few months I agree 100%

@@Zerox_Prime Under the terms of its admission into the United States, Texas may legally divide itself into as many as 5 states, which would give Texans 10 US Senators.