• @Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
    11•8 days ago

    I see where you come from, but I guess it’s still uncommon to have a third of a country living on a line

    Also, the data looks quite good, which is the main objective of this community

    • @OmegaMouse@pawb.socialEnglish
      18•8 days ago

      Yeah it’s pretty data for sure. Just the conclusion that has been drawn from it is a bit odd! Correlation/causation etc etc

    • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•7 days ago

      but I guess it’s still uncommon to have a third of a country living on a line

      mmm… no, it’s exactly what you’d expect in a country chock fulla mountains. terrain dictates where roads, rails AND TOWNS grow.

    • sunzu
      2•8 days ago

      I bet US can get something similar for NE corridor

      • @lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
        3•8 days ago

        Not as big a portion of the country, but yeah coastal areas will often have a large population living in roughly a line.

        In North America I believe the line connecting the most people would go from Quebec City through Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis (though maybe not within just 5 km of it). This is the most populous part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis and into the St. Lawrence.