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As with most states bigger than a shoe box (looking at you Northeastern states, there's too many of you) there's loads of open space they're just not great to l
by rtkwe 3y ago
As with most states bigger than a shoe box (looking at you Northeastern states, there's too many of you) there's loads of open space they're just not great to live in for one reason or another; those reasons range from climate to politics to lack of jobs.
- bee_rider 3y agoThe Northeast was what America was supposed to be, but something went wrong around Connecticut or Pennsylvania. I don’t know what happened but they are where things started to go all rectangle-shaped.
- rtkwe 3y agoOnce it became easier to measure longitude and latitude in land surveying it became way easier to define state borders as straight lines instead of following a river's course or other arbitrary lines. Even in the depths of the madness of the NE you have lines that are "straight from this point until you reach another state line or the border".
- quantified 3y agoAlso just getting past the crown colonies and states/territories with poor roads.