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When I went to Chile I was about to undertake a cross-country move across the US. Everybody I spoke to in Santiago couldn't imagine a country where you can driv
by throw4847285 2y ago
When I went to Chile I was about to undertake a cross-country move across the US. Everybody I spoke to in Santiago couldn't imagine a country where you can drive a massive distance like that and move from one major metropolis to another. At the time, I thought they were just reflecting on the fact that Chile is a country where 40% of all people live in one metro area, so there isn't another huge metro area to move to.
Looking at those maps, I understand their incredulity. Because of the shape of Chile, you can drive a similar distance and basically cover the entire country, rural, urban, and suburban. It's both a large country and a small one at the same time.
- aeyes 2y agoThe Concepción metro area is 1 million people, Valparaíso/Viña as well. Chileans love to point out that there isn't much outside of Santiago but it's not really true.
- flobosg 2y agoWhile that might be true, Chile is a very centralized country, unfortunately.
- throw4847285 2y agoI was talking to Santiaguinos, so I took it with a grain of salt.
- jkaptur 2y ago"View of the World from Ruta 70"
- nox101 2y agois 1 million people a lot? I lived most of my life in metro areas of 15-30 million. when I finally ventured out and saw so many famous places at 1.5 million or less and how I could drive in and then back out of their downtowns in just a few blocks I was kind of shocked on how small most places are
- graeme 2y agoThere are only 26 areas in the world which are 15-30 million. They have about 550 million people, or about 7% of the world's population. 1 million is fairly large, especially in the context of Chile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
- Retric 2y agoThat list really undercounts many metro areas. DC’s “Metropolitan area in 2020 was 6,385,162” it’s CSA was 9,546,579 in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area That list puts it at 5.2 million people.
- TylerE 2y agoThe 6M is included in the 9. They're not separate counts. That CSA also includes Baltimore so not a vary fair example. Absolutely not the same metro.
- Retric 2y agoI was mostly bringing up the 5.2 vs 6.4 both under Metro area. The CSA isn’t necessarily relevant, but a reasonable agreement exists that it’s really the same metro area. The beltways (495, 695) are less than 25 miles apart. Laurel, Maryland is 20 miles from both downtown DC and downtown Baltimore. Meanwhile the other cities from Richmond to Boston are 95-200 miles from each other. I knew someone whose tech support job would regularly send them to both cities in the same day. Apparently many companies located between them so they could easily serve both.
- bradknowles 2y agoYou can’t just look at distance and judge. I knew guys who lived north of Baltimore but commuted every day to the Pentagon. That doesn’t make Baltimore and DC two parts of the same city. Just like there are people who commute from New York to London, or vice-versa. NyLon is a thing, but that still doesn’t make them two parts of the same city.
- throw-the-towel 2y agoValparaíso and Viña are just next door from Santiago though.
- tvaughan 2y agoThere isn’t. Especially in the south. Floods, fires, and killer bears. It’s like The Purge, but every day. Don’t come.
- dr-detroit 2y ago[dead]
- Izikiel43 2y agoThat's chile, Argentina is more similar to the US, however most people move from X => Buenos Aires.
- 29athrowaway 2y agoConcepcion, Valparaiso, Greater Temuco, La Serena/Coquimbo, Antofagasta are large urban zones. You can learn more here https://elsemieni.net/megavision/ https://elsemieni.net/megavision/ [Cerveza Cristal theme]
- harry8 2y agoCity size is all definitional. My first ever look at the states was out the window of a plane flying to NYC from the Bahamas at night. Straight up the east coast. Mind blowing. To my eyes it was one enormous city without any meaningful separation all the way. I was expecting to be surprised by the scale of the usa and yet it was way beyond what i could imagine. Others won’t share that definition.
- inatreecrown2 2y agobeautiful image!
- throw4847285 2y agoWe're not that far off from Judge Dredd's Mega-City One!
- dredmorbius 2y ago"BosWash" was the term E.F. Schumacher used for the east-coast conurbanation, in 1973. Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington. In Small is Beautiful: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful> It's sprawled more since. Apparently the term was coined by Herman Kahn in 1967: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BosWash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BosWash>
- nocoiner 2y agoBoston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis.
- m463 2y agoI thought the same thing when flying from west coast to east coast, but in a different way. In california a postage-stamp sized lot is a million dollars, yet flying over endless land all day in a plane at 600 mph, I couldn't help but think it might all be a scam.