Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Maxperson]

Barstow is only 1.5 hours from Trona. Some days, it takes me longer than that to commute the roughly 7 miles into Boston for work.

Sure, but that's 1.5 hours with no traffic. It's almost 97 miles from Trona to Barstow, which is significantly farther than your trek to work. You could easily walk those 7 miles. Nobody in their right mind is walking 97 miles through desert to get to the nearest city.

 

[Maxperson]

This is crazy, would have thought much lower, there’s a lot of people there, but it’s huge, and no part of it (that I’ve been to) ever felt remotely densely populated.

As I mentioned in my response to Umbran, it's actually higher than 8200. The census fails to capture a lot of people living in Los Angeles. It also fails to take into account that many suburbs of Los Angeles felt the need to incorporate as separate cities, so their population, despite being in the same mileage for Los Angeles, isn't counted as Los Angeles city.

 

[trappedslider]

Nobody in their right mind is walking 97 miles through desert to get to the nearest city.

But I've been through there on a horse with no name.

And I'm sure if I really tried I could come up with a Greek joke about Nobody

 

[Gradine]

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.

Here's the thing; folks are talking about Central CA like it isn't full of genuine cities. And they aren't wrong, but most places in Central CA are a hell of a lot closer to "somewhere" than where I'm at.

Our largest city is 30,000 strong. It's about a three mile drive to Redding along one of the worst highways in America, which is the closest you can get to something pushing six digit population. We have two roads out of our area, East on the 299 (the aforementioned crap road to Redding), and the 101 heading north (single lane) and south (two lanes, mostly). All three are prone to closures during extreme weather, especially from rock slides. We have literally been trapped in the area before.

We're about six hours north of the Bay Area, when the road is open anyway, and about two hours south of the Oregon border.

You don't get more middle of nowhere in CA than Humboldt.

 

[Maxperson]

Here's the thing; folks are talking about Central CA like it isn't full of genuine cities. And they aren't wrong, but most places in Central CA are a hell of a lot closer to "somewhere" than where I'm at.

Our largest city is 30,000 strong. It's about a three mile drive to Redding along one of the worst highways in America, which is the closest you can get to something pushing six digit population. We have two roads out of our area, East on the 299 (the aforementioned crap road to Redding), and the 101 heading north (single lane) and south (two lanes, mostly). All three are prone to closures during extreme weather, especially from rock slides. We have literally been trapped in the area before.

We're about six hours north of the Bay Area, when the road is open anyway, and about two hours south of the Oregon border.

You don't get more middle of nowhere in CA than Humboldt.

Yeah. I was already arguing Central California and didn't want to confuse things by adding in the great empty north.

 

[overgeeked]

You don't get more middle of nowhere in CA than Humboldt.

Oh, damn. Stay safe. That place is dangerous.

 

[RealAlHazred]

The area of New Jersey with the lowest McDonald's density is higher that the highest McDonald's density in states like Vermont and South Dakota. At every point in New Jersey, you are within walking distance of a McDonald's. Not a close walk. Certainly not a pleasant walk. But you will get there before you die. And there can be nothing rural about that. When viewed against actually rural parts of the US, there's simply no comparison. I'll give you that there are places where it's rural compared to Long Island, but that's about it.

This is not true of the Pine Barrens, and every year people disappear there. Food for the Devil, I suppose!

I knew someone who moved with her family from Jersey City to Englewood Park, which always seemed crowded me -- the properties are tiny postage stamps the houses sit on, and your neighbors are always in your business.

She found it too difficult to live separated from everybody. It was terrifying that there wasn't a neighbor right below or above her. Not me, I want to be able to go outside into my backyard and not see anybody.

My state looks like a purple bruised finger with a pink nail.

... in the infographic or in real life?

 

[Ryujin]

Is it bad that I read that as a phonetic spelling of how Canadians say Toronto?

That's more like Teranna.

 

[Ryujin]

Which naturally brings us to...

 

[Hussar]

Nope. EJECT EJECT EJECT!!