European Reacts: Why No One Wants to Live in the Center of the US

[@vigillionaire]

The stars at night would blow your mind. Ive lived in the middle of nowhere most of my life and am still amazed every night

[@kat021171]

I live in the eastern Great Lakes region, and if you get far enough away from the cities, like where I've gone camping in the Appalachians, you have amazingly starry nights, as well. But I know we still have some light pollution even way out there. But if you get far enough out of the cities, it's still fantastic, even if you lose some of the starlight all the same.

[@survival7691]

The midwest is mostly farmland, ranches, etc. I live in Oklahoma, It is mostly known for oil and natural gas, cattle ranches and winter wheat.

[@kyleReaperX]

Agricultural areas are always scarcely populated..... if everyone moved to where they grow food, well it makes it hard to grow food there.

[@unity1016]

I've lived in 3 of the states in this 'underpopulated' area. I loved every one of these states, and am very happy about the fewer people thing. The idea of even visiting someplace like New York makes me short of breath.

[@Iron_Sights99]

Denver alone puts me on edge when it comes to trafffic. I like driving and actually being able to cover ground when I do it, not be constantly gridlocked. Though Harvest season can do that sometimes too

[@cece8650]

Americans who live in the middle love it! Family farms. Small to large clean towns. Good medical care. Good economic opportunities. Good life!

[@billolsen4360]

And very nice people. I have lots of customers in North & South Dakota, Nebraska & Kansas. They're very calm, generous & understanding.

[@TheRockkickass]

There is not good medical care in eastern Colorado

[@crb8124]

I've been to several towns in that area and they're the opposite of clean or safe.

[@greg967]

@@TheRockkickass There is not good medical care in any rural areas. If you need that, you need to live close to an urban area. It is an area for the relatively young and healthy.

[@TheRockkickass]

@@greg967 right. Idk why this guy mentioned it

[@carriebuhler1284]

I love living on a farm in rural northwest Kansas! As of 2023 we have 2.93 million people living in our state, so whoever created this video doesn't have correct information. We moved out here from a major metropolitan city 24 years ago because we wanted a safe place to raise our family, and we've never regretted our decision.

[@Freek314]

Commented on your video about Portuguese food the other day as well and I want to say that as a guy from Alabama I completely understand your pain when the rest of the world seems to look down on your home.

[@jamesreese7111]

A lot of the middle of the U.S. is farmland, so a large percentage of the land is not for housing. Our rural areas are generally set up with tar and chip roads spaced 1 mile apart in a grid of 1 mile squared or 640 acres. Frequently each square mile has anywhere from 6 to 0 houses and is prodminatly family farms. The average family farm is between 1,000 to1,500 acres of farmland. The large farms are 10,000 to 20,000 acres.

[@Iron_Sights99]

Tar and chip roads? Hot dang I wish our area would splurge like that :D About half of ours are just graded dirt, and the other half aren't really maintained. "Travel at own risk" signs are everywhere, and financially our county is doing better than most in the area.

[@pamelaforray4318]

I had a temp of 71 here today and it is supposed to be down to 33 by morning. NE Texas. Also, the great plains further north a the "bread basket" of America. A lot of farm land.

[@TheEmmettq]

The center Kansas is a super state. The cliffs, the hidden lakes, if you get off the highway and actually see the state. Lots of lakes and some Indian battlefields. The so- called pyramids.

[@luxleather2616]

we have 'dark sky' areas in Arizona which means we have little to no light pollution in those areas in order to see the sky clearly at night to the point you can even see the milky way....plus most of Arizona has protected land preserves & Native American Tribes have protected land called Reservations....yes Andre the weather does change that much in a day here....we layer our clothes lol

[@massappeal2696]

Dude, thank you so much for saying “that said” instead of “that being said” or “that having been said”. You have no idea how much it irks me when my people butcher our language. Subscribed just for that.

[@MrPenguinLife]

This map is a bit off, it should only show the parts of Texas west of San Antonio

[@thomasnelson6161]

I'd say it's very off. There are so many people living in the east of texas

[@buckeyegirl16]

TX has 30.6 million people lol...map is waaaaay off.

[@MrPenguinLife]

@@thomasnelson6161 Keep in mind that San Antonio, as well as Austin, Waco, and Fort Worth are actually in the eastern half of Texas (barely)

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@thomasnelson6161 That is exactly the point! people live in EAST Texas, but hardly anyone lives in WEST Texas, that is why the census numbers say so few people live in the great plains mentioned in the video. I wish more people graduated HS with SOME intelligence.

[@your-fbi-agent-9427]

When he mentioned how high the Rockies were he showed the image a Half Dome which is not in Rockies but rather the Sierra Nevada mountains Which is little bit farther to the West (The only reason why I knew that is cuz Half Dome is in Yosemite National Park and I do visit there decent amount)

[@SuperSlkdjf]

I live near the rockies. The weather is amazing in the summer. And if you like skiing then the winter is fun too.

[@thomasnelson6161]

One thing i know Australians and Americans have in common is that we prefer one another to the British.

[@JIMBEARRI]

The two most densely populous areas in the US are often jokingly called Bowash and Sansan. Just look at the city lights in night time satellite image. Bowash is the East Coast from Boston, Massachusetts south to Washington, DC. Sansan is on the West Coast from San Francisco south to San Diego.

[@vidpie]

In six decades I had never heard of Bowash and Sansan. Internet says, "BosWash is a name coined by futurist Herman Kahn in a 1967 essay describing a theoretical United States megalopolis extending from the metropolitan area of Boston to that of Washington, D.C. The publication coined terms like BosWash, referring to predicted accretions of the Northeast, and SanSan (San Francisco to San Diego) for the urbanized region in Coastal California."

[@eitanaltman158]

Lisbon is a BEAUTIFUL city! Would love to go back one day! Mediterranean climate and rugged coastal geography is very similar to coastal CA :)

[@martihoudesheldt6865]

Lincoln Nebraska here. -55F wind chill in the winter, 119F heat index in the summer. And we do use heat in the morning and air conditioning in the afternoon. And we get 75F in the afternoon, 20F overnight. We talk about weather a lot, lol 😊

[@richardmartin9565]

You only see videos. Go to the Midwest in the summer and it's hot. At night it can get cold in the desert areas.

[@cp368productions2]

The snow picture is a painting. You can tell because it has the northern lights among the mountains. The green one is most likely Glacier National Park. Most of the area he showed on the map are massive fields. The desert areas are Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and some of Texas. While Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Iowa are full of agriculture.

[@VikingJack-il4hw]

Much of Canada is also empty because it's a frozen desert

[@greg967]

Shhhhh.... Don't tell that to everyone who thinks Canada is a wonderland.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@greg967Same with those people who are posting comments glorifying the desolate great plains that the video talks about. There are reasons why most normal people don't want to live in either location.

[@greg967]

@@gregorybiestek3431 You or me I suppose, but I grew up in a small city. I enjoy the country, I have been camping and fishing in remote Canada available by foot and canoe only. I don't purport to tell the people there how to live, but north of Wisconsin/Minnesota is an outdoors man's paradise. And Toronto is the cleanest large city I've ever visited.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@greg967 I am not an outdoors type person, but I can certainly agree with you on Toronto. I love visiting that city.

[@louella616]

Video on San Diego you might like to watch, 3 days in SAN DIEGO, California. Renata Pereira has more videos on San Diego, CA and other places

[@tinasturgeon4730]

Thanks ❤️ Much Love! #Michigan

[@buckeyegirl16]

I'm 5 mins in and this video is BS. There's 30 million people living in Texas and he's saying 3 mil live in this whole strip????

[@pillarwatch]

That map was way off, part of the far west of Texas is part of it. Like the panhandle region.

[@lindadianesmith6013]

Dallas and Houston are on the East side of the line he drew. I live in Dallas. Those are the two most populated cities in Texas

[@acslater017]

It makes sense to me. It’s fuzzy but it looks like that strip basically excludes San Antonio and everything east of it, including metro Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

[@buckeyegirl16]

​​@@acslater017 If you look at the first map he shows @ 1:35, that line is drawn just east of Dallas. San Antonio and Austin are also west of that line. The only big city east of it is Houston. OKC is also west of this line. Their metro area is over a million.

[@primeminister66]

Crazy

[@ivanboston8582]

The weather here can be ROUGH! In the Summer not only can it be very hot but it can extremely humid particularly in corn country; like tropical hot and humid and in Winter it can get so cold that it will freeze an animal standing up

[@beckynorris4366]

I live there! Right in the Texas Panhandle at the top part of Texas. The Texas Panhandle has entirely different weather than the rest of Texas since it is high elevation. It is often quite dry except during spring when it rains more and the plains break out with wild flowers. It is actually quite good for agriculture as it has a massive aquifer underneath it that supplies us with water. It doesn't have a lot of trees, but you can see for miles and miles off into the distance and the sunrises and sunsets can't be beat because the sky just seems so vast and large. It gets very cold and snows a lot during winter even getting below zero at times. Often people just forget that part of Texas exists and will say "those texans don't know how to deal with snow" but they forget us that live up in the Texas panhandle.

[@DR27Alpha]

I live in the Dakotas and I love it. Even with the wild weather during the year.

[@crnel]

The picture at 7:51 is in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in Yosemite National Park. This cliff is called Half Dome and is in California. The Sierra Nevada Mountains divide the deserts in Nevada from the greener agricultural areas in the middle valleys of California. Yosemite is DEFINITELY worth a visit, if you can come. You'll have to fly to San Francisco, California rather than Denver, Colorado. --- or fly to Reno, Nevada in the summer for a very scenic route going straight south.

[@tylernorby4939]

Hosuing is not expensive in this area. It's incredibly cheap compared to the coasts.

[@theresaenders4527]

I live in Wyoming, the least populated state in the US. The summers aren't too hot but mostly because of the wind - its almost always windy here. During the winter it shakes the walls of our house and flips tractor-trailers over on highways. It can definitely be 70 degrees and drop to 50 in one day. We will be walking around in a t-shirt during the day and it will start snowing that evening. We had 3 weeks this year of around 30 degrees below zero. Its so cold it hurts to breathe. Its also soooo beautiful here!

[@JIMBEARRI]

Temperatures anywhere in the US can fluctuate wildly. In areas subject to the Jet Stream, sudden blasts of Arctic cold air can hit overnight. Such weather conditions are often called "Alberta Clippers". I remember one time when the temperature was 66 F [19 C] one morning. The next morning at 6:00 AM, the temperature was -12 F [-25 C] and I live in New England just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

[@billolsen4360]

The "gentle winter winds" that people joked about blowing down from Alberta into Great Falls, Montana was enough for me. Icy driveways, sidewalks & highways made us lose our footing frequently, resulting in a lot of 'Great Falls'. No need for us to go any further north from November to March!

[@mikeadair3341]

This area is where most of our food comes from. This is big farm and ranch areas. 1 family might own thousands of acres

[@Rose-z4h6k]

The place you compared to Mars is Monument Valley in Arizona and Utah.

[@MrPenguinLife]

The problem with this video is the photos are wrong, the photo at the 9:30 point is mode likely southern Utah, which is west of the Rocky Mountains, not east. There are several other similar mistakes in the video.

[@lianabaddley8217]

Yep! Monument Valley. Utah Arizona border.

[@themourningstar338]

Hardly any of the photos matched up with what was being talked about. There were multiple pictures of the western and southwestern deserts when talking about the great plains (yes, that was Monument Valley). Also was showing pics of the Sierra-Nevadas/Yosemite when talking about the Rockies. Very lazy video. Brightside videos always suck though, it's a crappy channel.

[@european-reacts]

I hope you enjoyed this one! Also my patreon if you want extra content: www.patreon.com/europeanreacts

[@VikingJack-il4hw]

The beautiful photo is the Rocky Mountains probably in Colorado. But the Rocky Mountains do go through a few States

[@pillarwatch]

Pretty sure that's a painting.

[@billolsen4360]

8:08 I think that's a real photo. 9:30 Thanks for the compliment! That is Monument Valley and it's near where New Mexico, Arizona & Utah meet and is in the Navajo Nation's reservation. It may look exactly like that for generations more because the Navajos don't permit development (houses, freeways, railroads & shops) in that area...yet. They do allow movies to be shot there. 12:00 I think that's a painting for a Christmas card, yes.

[@fracken1441]

I was born and raised in the Midwest. I left it for 22 years of military service and am now back and happy to be back. You can keep your large congested cities, I am quite happy in the lower populated center of the country. I greatly enjoy less people, more room, and more freedom.

[@buckeyegirl16]

Today in north TX it's dropping from 73° this morning to 35° tonight. Thats approx 23° C to 2° C.

[@chrissyp7]

Weather is insane here in idaho too. I live right at the western foot of the rockies and itll swing from under freezing to sweaty hot within the day here too. Most people layer or carry warmer/cooler clothes in their cars to change into

[@KyleBOLL1]

I live in Northern California not quite where the gold rush happend but not far from it and yes even in the summer bring a sweatshirt and long pants, because as soon as that sun starts to go down it gets chilly

[@aimeeharvey235]

Yes I do live in this zone he speaks of. It does get hot during the day. 02/14/2024 hit almost 70 during the day and we had low 40s at night.

[@wikkedspindl]

I have lived in the great planes area most of my life. Currently in Iowa. The Rockies not only take away a lot of Pacific clouds, but they also act like a barrier to keep Canada's cold chills from crossing over into the West coast as well. Not having large structures (like mountains) then nothing really blocks or slows down the winds. It is not uncommon for Wyoming to have winds in the triple digits, or parts of the flatlands to get more snow than Canada or Alaska. There are a few times a year that you can get frost bite at night and sunburns in the afternoon. I like to joke around that it's so flat you can watch your dog run away for 2 weeks (nothing blocking your view), but in reality I'd never want it to be any other way.

[@robinmills8675]

😂

[@lkajiess]

9:33 you are kinda right lol, you're seeing the Utah/Arizona border. Look up "Monument Valley". It's been in a ton of movies. It's where Forest Gump decided to stop running.

[@elizabethlovett4318]

Hot deserts always have a drastic change in temperature from day to night. Frozen deserts might as too, but they don't go from hot to freezing. And Australia and the US do have things in common due to their historic ties to Britian.

[@sergioandrade8735]

There is something similar in New Jersey at least until the last 40 years. New Jersey has a large population but there is a section called The Pine Barrows or The Pine Lands so called because the soil is so acid that only pine trees

[@johnpearson5616]

Desert climates are very much that way. The swings and temperature can be very dramatic.

[@zex7689]

You should show us cool stuff from Portugal

[@CrispyOkra]

Where I live we don't even show up as a dot on the night map. The closest towns with a population of about 10,000 are 60 miles away in either direction (north & south). The nearest big city (Denver) is 200 miles away and Albuquerque a little over 200 miles away. The town I live near has a population of 150 with about 1,000 total in the general area.

[@tracysteagall8500]

I would love for you to do a video to teach us about your favorite things about Portugal.

[@vigillionaire]

I live in this zone in north east new mexico. A lot of people in this region settled here in the 1600's, and I am so glad mine did.

[@frankymr2]

Lol the temp difference is true. Thats why most southern cali locals wear shorts and a sweather lol. I might be 70 80 at day, and at night in the low 60s 50s. Specially if you live near the beach like me here in san diego and during fall.

[@Iron_Sights99]

Cheers from NW Kansas! It's definitely not for everyone. I love it, but I was also raised into it.

[@91GT347]

There are numerous reasons for this actually. Hostile natives bitd, gold rush in CA, farmers arent crazy about selling their land, hot af south, cold af north, etc etc.

[@shannonfrericks1124]

I live in that area in South Dakota and I can attest to the rapid temperatures swing! I seen the the temperature drop 69 degrees Fahrenheit in one hour.

[@tracysteagall8500]

Yes. The desert is hot in day and cold at night.

[@marklindsey2127]

You're right about Portugal being under represented in you tube videos. I'd love to see someone make an informative video on Portugal. Could that be you?

[@Grizzlox]

I'm from the Texas panhandle. Winters can be harsh. Of course nothing like the northern states that border the Great Lakes get, but pretty bad for Texas. Summers are desperately hot... we like to cook on "sidewalk cast iron" on the really hot days.

[@omnizeit4096]

I was born in Eastern Wyoming and now live in West Texas, I would not want to live anywhere else than this 1%. And yes it is empty and I love it!

[@MetroidSuperFan]

The thing about the fluctuating temperatures is very true. 40 degrees (F) difference between night and day is not unheard of. Consequence of not having very much cloud cover.

[@jacobwhitley2895]

Large companies demo new products in Australia because they are so similar geographically, and culturally. Cheaper to demo with less population and when you only need a few cities. They translate well to the success of it in the US.

[@cden409]

Washington and Oregon are very populated and plenty of rain and fir trees 🌲 BUT in both states, the east sides are flat no trees really and desert 🌵 like. Hot in the summers and not bad winters. Eastern Washington state (we live in)

[@cookielady7662]

We live in this sparsely populated area in west Texas where we farm. It's a wonderful lifestyle; one I wouldn't trade. Thanks for the great video.

[@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu]

Most of that "empty" land is filled with farms and ranches. If it fills up with people then the farms and ranches disappear. Can you guess what happens next? Right, food disappears! Leave the food growing areas alone, please. We need the wheat, corn and soy beans grown here.

[@charlayned]

He didn't even talk about the fact that that strip of land from about mid-Texas to the border is the "bread basket" of the country and, really, the world. We grow the most wheat, corn, soybeans, and other crops. The further south you go, the longer the growing season. And, look up the Ogalala Aquifer. It's a giant lake underground where a lot of these folks get water. Wind energy is big up there due to the wind off the Rockies as well as the open plains with no obstructions. I grew up in the Texas panhandle, smack in the middle of that zone. Flat, windy, semi-arid. But beautiful in it's own way. We get below 0 temperatures some winters (last winter I was up was 2016 and it was 19 degrees F with a 40 mph wind steady). We also get over 100 degree summers. It's beautiful, rugged, and quiet, much quieter than the Houston area where I live now. We also have Palo Duro Canyon, the biggest canyon in the US after the Grand Canyon. It's 15 miles south of Amarillo. You'll be driving across flat prairie and the ground just opens up into a beautiful place to hike, and it has a summer musical show called Texas every summer that is worth seeing. Check out TEXAS PANHANDLE by Molimar Molina here on KZbin. It's short, mostly around Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

It may be the "bread Basket" as you state, but very few people live in that region. Most people prefer to live in or close to major metropolitan areas. The video is mostly correct.

[@VikingJack-il4hw]

People with a lot of money usually want a mansion on the coast overseeing the ocean usually in California or New England or Florida and a few other states

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Except for Texas, that whole stretch is flat, there's no trees for hundreds of miles, it's windy often, and tornadoes spawn there fairly easily.

[@revgurley]

So much of that area is either 1. Mountains, 2. Farmland, 3. National Parks, or 4. Native Tribal Land. Few live in those places, though I'm not sure how Native Americans are counted in the US census. Now look up Schoolhouse Rock!

[@mickibly47]

Those cool rock formations that you liked but didn't know where they came from, it looks like it could be wyoming

[@tomsteinmetz5965]

Colorado river in that one shot

[@Rebel9668]

A lot of the midwest is owned by corporate farming, where the more acreage you have, the more you can farm and the less land that remains for people. This is both good and bad. Would be better if the farms were family owned, but then that would mean less land available for crops and as that area is known as "the breadbasket" of the nation, it feeds us and a lot of the rest of the world as well.

[@VikingJack-il4hw]

Most people live in the Eastern side of the United States because that's where most Europeans settled because of the fertile soil and how green it is with mountains and trees and Forest everywhere

[@Salinas-_-515]

I live in Texas and it's not like that. I actually love the weather here other that a couple months of the year.

[@corporealexistence9467]

My home state is Arizona and my family has been thinking about moving to Wyoming. I guess that explains some of why I do not fit most places I go lol The issue with Montana and Wyoming is that a lot of rich people move their and drive up the prices.

[@LordAereas]

I live in central Oklahoma. I like it.

[@jamesferris4573]

I am 70 years old, and I have lived in southwest Oklahoma my entire life. I love the simple, quiet life and wouldn't live in a heavily populated area for anything in the world. Many more people are moving to this area from California, and areas that are heavily populated and the county is filling up with people bringing ten dogs each and shooting their AR-15s in every direction on their acre of land. The people who are moving out to this region are paranoid of being attacked and have no common sense and do not respect others' rights but only cry about their God-given right to own an AR-15. Someone needs to make a video about the insanity in the U.S. of millions of people who believe they have a God-given right to own firearms regardless of whether they put others' lives at risk due to their ignorance.

[@JIMBEARRI]

Monument Valley is on Arizona/Utah border. Many "Western" movies were filmed there.

[@tracyfrazier7440]

Monument Valley is Native American territory. There are interesting tours of the buttes and old movie camps.

[@aniE1869]

That photo that you said looks like ai looks like parts of Idaho.

[@fritziedolly7263]

I agree… We skied in Sun Valley, and saw sites very similar😊

[@ptorq]

It's not entirely clear what region he's talking about when he says it has no large (over a million population) cities, but the area outlined in yellow on the thumbnail contains at least one city (San Antonio, TX) of over a million people, another that's just barely under that mark (Austin, TX at about 975,000) and it appears to be at best skirting Houston and Dallas TX (2.3 and 1.3 million respectively ... 2.3 and 2.2 if you include Fort Worth). It also looks like it's probably skirting Denver, CO (750,000) and Lincoln, NE ("only" about 290,000, but still not a small town by any stretch of the imagination). Expanding the borders by say 50 km would easily double the population.

[@Big_Tex]

Yeah the thumbnail labeled 1% is pretty bogus.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@Big_Tex no more bogus or correct than most of the comments on this video that sing praises of living in the desolate areas. Most normal people like to live in urban areas with amenities. The very same can be said about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or Kansas or West Texas. For those who like it, fine, but facts don't lie that very few people like to live in areas far away from cities.

[@lucasw24]

@@gregorybiestek3431We give up certain conveniences to enjoy little to no crime. I never have to lock anything. I can stop at a gas station leave my vehicle running and never have to worry about it. Last time I had a break down on the side of the road almost every vehicle that went by stopped and asked if I needed help. There are trade offs to where ever you live. What you deem as “normal” is absurd. You speak like it’s a desolate wasteland. It has pretty much everything the populated areas do you just might have to drive a little further to get there or have a little less choice. Which is no big deal because there is absolutely no traffic. It’s also way more affordable. There are really no parts of the US that is considered desolate. Maybe a few very small areas but that’s about it. Far from the whole area on that map.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@lucasw24 You can make all the excuses you like, facts do NOT change. As of the 2020 Census, 80.7% of all Americans live in cities, and another 10% live in exurban areas (those that are rural but within commuting distance to cities). Like I said that is what is NORMAL for 90% of Americans. You never pay me enough to live out in your hickvilles. Nice try through.

[@Big_Tex]

@@gregorybiestek3431 dude I just pointed out an error and I'm correct about that. The outlined area has maybe 10% or more of US population, not 1%. The outline literally includes Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. You're just giving your opinion and whining about people disagreeing with you.

[@roysummerland3419]

Love that content man and as an American myself, i love my home country even with all its underlying problems. However, can you maybe branch out and react to other countries than the USA?

[@lindacarroll6896]

You might want to do a reaction to where Canada's most population is. But not hard to figure out why.

[@sev2hood]

watch the west Edmonton mall or mall of America

[@tracysteagall8500]

I live Right of the white line in Indiana.

[@joeg5414]

I live in the southwest part of Colorado. Kind of funny, that map at the beginning makes it look like there's a big city with lights everywhere here😆 Far from the truth. It's dark here. Small towns, very rural in the mountains. You can see everything in the sky at night. edit - the one at the very beginning, not the one at the start of the video he's watching. That one looks pretty accurate. Although, it does make the mountains kind of look like lights.

[@BTinSF]

Why does the video keep showing Joshua Trees which grow in the Mojave Desert of California and Sajuaro cacti which grow in the Sonoran desert of AZ when the photo is supposed to be of the Great Plains? He's talking about the Plains as though it's actually a desert but it's not. Just consider the states involved: Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas. This is the dry grain belt and also sits atop the Ogalala Acquifer which provides plenty of water to irrigate the land when necessary. The aquifer, unfortunately. is being over-pumped but that's just beginning to be an issue.

[@lorrainea.9023]

video also showed Half Dome in Yosemite (Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California) when talking about the Rockies' peaks. I wish these content creators who present their videos as factual would actually check their facts and not just use random photos!

[@johnclark2212]

To hot to cold and no water!

[@kathyyoung9539]

I live in the Great State of Texas. Oak Cliff south of Dallas. And got apartment in Austin. Wouldn't live Nowhere else. God Bless Texas. Love my Blues. ❤❤ The Mother Country. ❤❤

[@Kovitlac]

The line he drew cuts directly through my city xD But as a whole, I've lived in the Midwest area my entire life (4 states), and most of us quite like it here. We don't have to deal with tourists, and we're far better off in case of a zombie apocalypse. One thing... I don't understand him saying "the chances for finding a better life are higher in the cities". Says who? And I say this as someone who does live in a mid-sized city and have my whole life. But "better life" is entirely subjective. Are people living on small rural farms not living happy lives? Why does it boil down to GDP or how much money you make? Nevermind that smaller or more rural areas generally have a cheaper cost of living, so you don't HAVE to make as much to live comfortably.

[@evabonnes2614]

Wyoming maybe?

[@brianhums5056]

I live there and it can be brutal, hot and cold are just normal here.

[@milemarker301]

Another reason = people can't live in the same spot you plow &/or graze.

[@BTinSF]

I haven't even watched the video yet but I know the answer: Because that land is farm country and farming is becoming more and more corporate and mechanized. Tractors can even plant and harvest with no human drivers now--the farmer just programs where to do their thing using GPS and off they go. Therefore, far fewer humans are needed in agriculture and people are leaving the areas because there are no jobs. The small towns in these areas never had a lot of people since the land is most in either grain production or grazing but now they are being depopulated even more.

[@epongeverte]

General Regions of the USA: NEW ENGLAND [Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut]: picturesque with lots of old universities, centered on the city of Boston; MID-ATLANTIC [New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia]: many older large cities [New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington] known for business, government & manufacturing; THE SOUTH [Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas]: Distinct for its history of slavery, more agricultural, warmer weather, generally poorer, more religious/conservative, attracting people looking for a cheaper place to live or retire [Louisville, Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Oklahoma City]; GREAT LAKES REGION [Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota]: Known for the Great Lakes and a mixture of manufacturing and agriculture, sometimes called the "rust-belt" due to the decline in manufacturing [Chicago and other cities: Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis]; GREAT PLAINS [Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota]: rural and known for agriculture, very flat and prone to tornadoes [cities include: St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha]; MOUNTAINS [Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho]: very mountainous with most people living in cities surrounded by vast areas of wilderness [cities incl.: Denver, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Tucson, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Boise]; PACIFIC COAST [Washington, Oregon, California]: beautiful areas with large metro centers surrounded by agriculture and wilderness [cities include: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle]; Alaska [frozen state way up by Russia known for its oil reserves], Hawaii [tropical islands state in the Pacific], and the USA also has 5 inhabited territories: CARIBBEAN TERRITORIES [Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands], PACIFIC TERRITORIES [Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa].

[@acslater017]

3D population maps are really interesting and really make it clear where people live. You can also cross reference it with political orientation. Even heavily liberal or conservative states at most enjoy a 65-35 majority. About 35% of Alabamians went for Biden and about 35% of Californians went for Trump. It’s less about “red and blue states” and more about blue cities and red rural areas.

[@sergioandrade8735]

There is an area in New Jersey called The Pine Lands which until recently was sparly populated . The soil is so acidic that only pine trees will grow and most food will not grow

[@carrob704]

That is where I live and it is the only part of this densely populated state where I would ever live...less expensive, less people and crime, more peaceful

[@hardtackbeans9790]

The central part his talking about wouldn't be good for most to retire Blizzards all the way do to Texas panhandle & heat wave all the way up to the Canadian border.

[@carolburnett190]

I don’t think I could tolerate living in an area so flat! I really don’t like the hot summers, but I like the nine month winters even less. I like living where I do-we have mountains and we have beaches, and both are awesome!

[@TheRagratus]

Most people who have never been to Colorado think its all mountains. NOPE, only the Western half is mountains. The Eastern half is as flat as Kansas.

[@alyparker4457]

Maybe true with the exception of Texas. There’s a reason they put all the nuclear silos in these areas.