Similarities between Orange County, CA and Northern New Jersey (live, compared, places)
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1. Both are HUGE suburban regions, that are in some ways very much an outgrowth of their two respective mega-cities, (NJ-NY, OC-LA) with clearly many of the residents are a generation or two removed from the sister city. Yet they are suburban regions so significant that they have taken a life of their own, and because of traffic, and the fact that they spurred their own culture and entertainment, etc. outlets, residents don't realy need to go to the "mother" city very often.
Both regions have grown and expanded to the point where there is a bit of "megalopolis" forming although not entirely, as there still is nature and open space between North Jersey and Philly, as well as between Orange County and San Diego.
Both contain LOTS of new money sometimes flashy, although the two respect regions started off differently. 50 years ago, Orange County was more or less straight up rural. New Jersey was more industrial and working class.
What do you think? Do you see the similarities and comparisons?
I humbly beg your forgiveness. I shall kiss the ground when I land at La Guardia. Oh, how I wish I were so sophisticated taking the subway everyday. Oh, I am such a hick driving a car. Oh, I can never be culture I don't live in a high rise! Oh, goodness, my 1970s 3-story apartment building. I am in such a cultural wasteland. Oh no! What will I do!
I must live in the land of no alleys, with garbage cans on the street, then I will know I am in a cultural mecca.
Now that I made my snarky comment to Huge Foodie, Now I will be professional:
Hudson County: 13,495 pp/sqmi 634,266 people
Nassau County: 4,655 pp/sqmi 1.3 people
Santa Ana, CA: 12,000 pp/sqmi 324,528 people.
So, there is a city in Orange County that is almost as dense as Hudson County with half the population as Hudson County.
Nassau County? Are you joking. You can't look at LAs overall population density. There are rugged mountains that are within the city limits that bring down its density (you know: nature). You have to look at only the flatlands. Which in that case are at least 6,000 pp/sqmi, and in almost all the LA basin, over 10,000 pp/sq mi.
Yes, they are comparable.
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