> Good Christ, I lived for years in small towns in the most rural area of the UK without a car! The UK is smaller than the US state of Oregon, which is the 9th

> Good Christ, I lived for years in small towns in the most rural area of the UK without a car! The UK is smaller than the US state of Oregon, which is the 9th largest state in terms of area. There is literally nowhere in the UK that counts as "rural" by US standards. The UK has a population density of 277/km^2, while the United States as a whole has only 35/km^2. The comparison is much worse if you look at western/northern states like North Dakota (4/km^2) or Alaska (0.5/km^2). Even California (widely considered a very crowded state) has only 250/km^2, still considerably less than the UK. In fact, there are only 4 states of 50 which have a greater population density than the UK. The old saying that Americans consider a hundred years a long time, while the British consider a hundred miles a long distance seems to be accurate even in the long term.