The United States of the World

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:49 pm

While surfing Google Images for something completely unrelated, I stumbled across this map. It's pretty interesting to look at, and really shows how wealthy the US is.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:53 pm

Wow. That's impressively disturbing. I'm aware that, poor as I am, I'm still middle-class by the standards of a lot of countries (Bangladesh comes to mind).

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:08 pm

As long as you aren't eating rats, you're still far above the poor in India.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:15 pm

Rochey wrote:As long as you aren't eating rats, you're still far above the poor in India.

That's what I mean; my existence in America is bottom-rung, but I'm waaaay better off than poor people in a number of other countries.

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:18 pm

The shame is how many people in the US fail to understand that fact.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:23 pm

Mikey wrote:The shame is how many people in the US fail to understand that fact.

No doubt. Even middle-class folks here live like kings by the standards of third-world countries.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:27 pm

Awesome map. I live in Poland apparently.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:30 pm

I wasn't super-surprised that Texas has a roughly equivalent GDP to Canada. We are about a third their size.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:31 pm

So, is there anything in Nevada other than desert?

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:36 pm

Rochey wrote:So, is there anything in Nevada other than desert?

There's a little resort town that might be profitable someday... called "Las Vegas" or something like that.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:40 pm

Tsukiyumi wrote:I wasn't super-surprised that Texas has a roughly equivalent GDP to Canada. We are about a third their size.

Large portions of Canada simply can't support a large population anyways. Mind you I'll trade you Texas for Quebec...

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:41 pm

No thanks.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:44 pm

Mikey wrote:
Rochey wrote:So, is there anything in Nevada other than desert?
There's a little resort town that might be profitable someday... called "Las Vegas" or something like that.

Carson City and Reno are pretty nice, too. But yeah, it's mostly desert and mountains. Lots of mountains.

Kendall - honestly, east Texas, where I live, is pretty damn nice country most of the year. During the summer, when it gets to around 43 C, it can be pretty awful, but you get used to it.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:29 pm

I think Kendall was reffering to the massive outbreak of fundamentalist loonies you have down there.

Mikey:

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:55 pm

Rochey wrote:I think Kendall was reffering to the massive outbreak of fundamentalist loonies you have down there.

There's a lot less here than in the 'bible belt'.

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