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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
But they're in densely populated regions. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill has over 2 million people. Nashville metropolitan area has 1.75 million, and is growing rapidly. Greater Pittsburgh has 2.3 mil. Greater Columbus over 2 mil.
People in Western Canada maybe don't realize that what we have here - cities surrounded by essentially unpopulated hinterlands - is not the norm in the older parts of the continent, where cities flow into one another in unbroken built up areas.
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Exactly. I split my time each month between Calgary and the Charlotte area. Thee is traffic here everywhere. Every 5 minutes on the freeway you are in another smaller city.