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My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"

by wheybags 2y ago

369548684892826 2y ago
This probably works best in Idaho
- walrus01 2y ago
  In the broadest possible sense, Idaho can be divided into "potato" and "non-potato" Idaho. For instance if you drive US95 through here (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) it's almost entirely wheat farms, and what isn't a wheat farm is either forest, wilderness or cattle ranch. The potato part doesn't really start until you get down into the whole valley/flat land area occupied by Meridian, Boise, Nampa, etc. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grangeville,+ID+83530,+USA/@46.1171825,-116.1979828,45015m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x54a0c1784b5a468d:0xc1b554fc4611c93c!8m2!3d45.9257777!4d-116.1199559!16zL20vMHMxdzc?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grangeville,+ID+83530,+USA...
  - reaperducer 2y ago
    (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) New York County, New York says hi. (You may know it as "Manhattan.")
- vanderZwan 2y ago
  POTATO LAND! POTATO LAND! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtLw83_jE0&t=426s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtLw83_jE0&t=426s [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF3e78j7pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF3e78j7pw (official African mirror) [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Jff85kMeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Jff85kMeU (official Asian mirror) (PS: curious how the video resolution gets lower with each channel)
usrusr 2y ago
Here in Germany I run an inverse of that for "am I in the wider halo of a larger city or am I in a truly rural environment": when approaching a metropolitan area, the outer urban halo starts where there are still farms, but many of them have switched to housing horses.
jfk13 2y ago
How large does the field have to be? I grow some in my back garden...does that count as zero, then?
sevensor 2y ago
What I found striking about Seoul was that there would be three rows of potatoes in between a ten story apartment block and a busy highway. Not a square meter wasted on unproductive grass.

My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"

369548684892826 2y ago

This probably works best in Idaho

walrus01 2y ago
In the broadest possible sense, Idaho can be divided into "potato" and "non-potato" Idaho. For instance if you drive US95 through here (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) it's almost entirely wheat farms, and what isn't a wheat farm is either forest, wilderness or cattle ranch. The potato part doesn't really start until you get down into the whole valley/flat land area occupied by Meridian, Boise, Nampa, etc. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grangeville,+ID+83530,+USA/@46.1171825,-116.1979828,45015m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x54a0c1784b5a468d:0xc1b554fc4611c93c!8m2!3d45.9257777!4d-116.1199559!16zL20vMHMxdzc?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grangeville,+ID+83530,+USA...
- reaperducer 2y ago
  (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) New York County, New York says hi. (You may know it as "Manhattan.")
vanderZwan 2y ago
POTATO LAND! POTATO LAND! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtLw83_jE0&t=426s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtLw83_jE0&t=426s [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF3e78j7pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF3e78j7pw (official African mirror) [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Jff85kMeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Jff85kMeU (official Asian mirror) (PS: curious how the video resolution gets lower with each channel)

usrusr 2y ago

Here in Germany I run an inverse of that for "am I in the wider halo of a larger city or am I in a truly rural environment": when approaching a metropolitan area, the outer urban halo starts where there are still farms, but many of them have switched to housing horses.

jfk13 2y ago

How large does the field have to be? I grow some in my back garden...does that count as zero, then?

sevensor 2y ago

What I found striking about Seoul was that there would be three rows of potatoes in between a ten story apartment block and a busy highway. Not a square meter wasted on unproductive grass.