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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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

Awesome map. I live in Poland apparently.

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

So, is there anything in Nevada other than desert?

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.

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...

No thanks.

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.

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

Mikey:

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'.