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You were probably seeing parkland in the least developed sections. Anyhow, tying back to the thread topic, while 100 miles from NYC or Boston may not be that populated in many directions and mostly forested, there are still some small villages and houses scattered around, and you're never far from a largish town. The Pacific Northwest is completely different, go east from Portland and Seattle not too long and it's mostly uninhabited. It's a huge change from out here (except northern Maine) let alone the UK. In much of New England, you're never far from a small city. Not so much the Pacific Northwest. 50 miles from Seattle:
I could never live in the PNW unless it was right near one of the major cites.. And yet, I looked at the numbers and they have less forest than the NE. The population density is just really different.
But my back yard in Orlando looks out on woods and a pond, after about 50 feet of land
IME, not as many. It's very green, rolling hills etc. It's beautiful but different.. It looks like maybe parts of eastern PA.. Or Ohio maybe. It really does look different. And to me it is much greener in winter as everything in NE is bare.
I could never live in the PNW unless it was right near one of the major cites.. And yet, I looked at the numbers and they have less forest than the NE. The population density is just really different.
If you're looking at state numbers, forest cover is less because most of the land east of the Cascades is too dry to support forest cover, so the % is lower. The Northeast has higher forest cover because it's wet and not much is farmed, even with a high population density there's going to plenty of land not built up.
BUt we don;t really live in forrests. I mean some people do. They live in very rural foresty areas. Most of us grew up near "woods", small patches of forest betweeb densly populated areas.. Not miles and miles of woods between houses. Even smaller states like MA can have miles and miles of low population forests.
I was honestly pretty shock at how many woodsy undeveloped areas central FL has
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Neither did I. Its nothing like Palm beach, infact it doesn't even look tropical.
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