Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Umbran]

I live in the middle of nowhere in California

With all due respect, there's nowhere in CA that is really "middle of nowhere". All of CA is "somewhere" compared to much of the country.

 

[Maxperson]

I actually don't care much for most mafia movies. Lots of "film people" don't seem to think that's a very valid opinion. Meanwhile, it seems perfectly acceptable to turn up noses to animation and horror.

I used to really like mafia movies. Then when Godfather III came out a friend and I watched Godfathers I and II right before going to the theater to see III. I still haven't recovered from the mafia movie overload.

 

[Maxperson]

Isn't he dead now? Or a lumberjack? Or both?

The new season is young Dexter when he first starts working for the police. I couldn't get into it, but my wife is still watching it.

 

[Maxperson]

With all due respect, there's nowhere in CA that is really "middle of nowhere". All of CA is "somewhere" compared to much of the country.

Central California is very large and very sparse. It can be quite a trek to get to a decent sized city.

 

[Thomas Shey]

With all due respect, there's nowhere in CA that is really "middle of nowhere". All of CA is "somewhere" compared to much of the country.

While its possible to live enough far away from anywhere else for this to be true, I'm not sure the majority of non-urban/suburban/exurban U.S. is any farther away from other places than parts of the Central Valley. Much of the country is simply not capable of that being true because of distances. About the only places that's significantly true are parts of Texas and a large amount of Alaska.

 

[Deset Gled]

Agh! This is a rabbit whole I don't know if I need to fall down!
Is there anything in it NSFW that I should wait until I'm away from work to check out more?

Kind of a gray area. No nudity, or anything like it that I can remember. But it's all humor based around stuff coming out of toilets.

 

[prabe]

While its possible to live enough far away from anywhere else for this to be true, I'm not sure the majority of non-urban/suburban/exurban U.S. is any farther away from other places than parts of the Central Valley. Much of the country is simply not capable of that being true because of distances. About the only places that's significantly true are parts of Texas and a large amount of Alaska.

As someone who drove from suburban Maryland to Big Bend National Park ten months ago, I was going to have a response, before I re-read you and saw you'd included Texas. I might include parts of Montana and/or the Dakotas in that, as well, though I don't know the geography of the Central Valley well enough to argue the position hard.

 

[TiQuinn]

Central California is very large and very sparse. It can be quite a trek to get to a decent sized city.

I would say Central CA is not terribly different from much of the midwest in that driving to a big city may be a quite a hike by car, and realistically if you want to go anywhere else, you’re flying. There’s a few places I’ve personally been that felt more isolated - Wyoming, upper peninsula Michigan (and I’m sure there’s more like Alaska) but beyond that - California is just friggin huge if you’re trying to get to San Francisco, LA or even Sacramento.

 

[Thomas Shey]

As someone who drove from suburban Maryland to Big Bend National Park ten months ago, I was going to have a response, before I re-read you and saw you'd included Texas. I might include parts of Montana and/or the Dakotas in that, as well, though I don't know the geography of the Central Valley well enough to argue the position hard.

It was "much" I was mostly arguing with. As I said, there are absolutely places its true about, but not that many once you get outside of Alaska. (Of course it depends on what Umbran means by "somewhere" too; if its just "places with a name" I suppose its true, but I've driven up the middle of that several times and even around Interstate 5 there's not a whole lot, and it gets even more true the farther from that you get.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I would say Central CA is not terribly different from much of the midwest in that driving to a big city may be a quite a hike by car, and realistically if you want to go anywhere else, you’re flying. There’s a few places I’ve personally been that felt more isolated - Wyoming, upper peninsula Michigan (and I’m sure there’s more like Alaska) but beyond that - California is just friggin huge if you’re trying to get to San Francisco, LA or even Sacramento.

It gets complicated depending on exactly where you are. Parts of the valley north of the Los Angeles basin range from having a fair number of cities fairly close (as you go up the 99 you're hitting all the urban areas to be found there, even if they're not huge by the standards of Los Angeles or Sacramento) but there's a considerable dead zone as you get closer to the coast in that area--with gaps larger than a rather fair number of states. You can certainly cherry-pick some parts of the midwest (the central part of Nevada is really a whole lot of nothin' once you get away from Highway 376 for example, but that's kind of the point--nobody lives in those areas except occasional isolates anyway; even most people with hermit tendencies can find somewhere more pleasant to live).