So I’m only recently appreciating how much of the ‘80s concept of “the suburbs” was specifically Long Island/the San Fernando Valley/Chicagoland.
The notion was everywhere as the new default location, but the '80s Reagan reenchantment (and then-dawning Boomer nostalgia) also went big on small towns, it was hard for me to say which one my hometown was – it dated to the Colonial era, but people went in every day to Philly jobs (we’d had commuter rail since the early 20th century)
Really we were an exurb, but that term didn’t really break through until the late '90s (and more specifically “favored quarter” only later)
In the '90s “raves” could be a thing, even suburban kids went to them! Like, maybe inner “suburban”, for a lot of us who were otherwise culturally centered “the warehouse district” did not exist as a part of our world at all
One thing about golf booming in America with the automobile, as courses enjoyed the sudden benefit of enough players in access range to support themselves is you have courses appearing on the fringe of cities in the 1920s to immediate postwar, in the direction that automotive expansion favors, so by the modern day you have these open grounds which often organized themselves as “country clubs” in what are now some fairly central urban locations
Bora Bora is a 12-square-mile (30-square-km) island chain in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. The main island, which has an extinct volcano at its center, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. Bora Bora is a major international tourist destination, famous for its aqua-centric luxury resorts. It has about 10,600 permanent residents but is visited by hundreds of thousands of travelers each year.
always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!
What’s in the steppes of Russia, or the northern forests of Scandinavia? What’s in the Sahara desert?
id like us to sit here and identify some key differences between the sahara desert and ohio for a moment
as a former Ohio resident I think that the key difference is that the sahara probably has more jobs unrelated to meth
untapped meth market in the depths of the sahara desert
River flow volumes, as visualized by some guys at Pacific Institute, who explain:
Major rivers of the 48 contiguous United States, scaled by average flow where river symbols are proportional to the “gage-adjusted flow.” The symbols drawn here have widths proportional to the square root of the rivers’ estimated average annual discharge. Only rivers with discharge above 1,000 cfs are shown. Data from NHDPlus v2. Background map by ESRI.
idk what the Pacific Northwest river is called. probably either Washington or Vancouver though?
snake - colombia? idk, PNW people are big blood and soil ppl. how come i never hear them talk about these rivers. sounds fake.
Yeah, that’s the Columbia, drains snowmelt from the Rockies.
huh didn’t know it had that much flow
altho I guess what makes the mississippi so valuable is not that it has a lot of water but that it has a huge navigable network, which is correlated but not the same. the columbia is apparently navigable all the way to idaho which is further than I might have expected. seems like a solid regional waterway
It’s only been navigable (by barge) to Idaho since 1975, part of the psychosocial stuff around it was a lot of the damming (which rendered it smoothly navigable and controlled flooding but also interrupted mighty salmon runs) didn’t happen until after the development of modern environmentalism
River flow volumes, as visualized by some guys at Pacific Institute, who explain:
Major rivers of the 48 contiguous United States, scaled by average flow where river symbols are proportional to the “gage-adjusted flow.” The symbols drawn here have widths proportional to the square root of the rivers’ estimated average annual discharge. Only rivers with discharge above 1,000 cfs are shown. Data from NHDPlus v2. Background map by ESRI.
