Brit Reacting to What Are The 11 MEGAREGIONS Of The United States?

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[Fearless]

To give you some perspective. The Houston metro area alone is larger than the entirety of Wales.

[digne]

Google says …
Texas Triangle: 57, 430 sq miles
England: 50, 301 sq miles

The entire UK would be on megaregion, and the U.S. is much bigger than you think based on your estimates

[taihalpern]

The texas triangle is closer to the size of England + Wales than just Wales lmao

[mikeg.]

It always amazes me that most of Europe thinks that only New York, LA, Florida. and Texas exist. Chicago and he Great Lakes region is the heart of the country. Chicago is the third largest city.

[OkiePeg]

The area of Houston and the surrounding suburbs contains 46 cities!!! They used to be separated, and you could tell they were different because there were rural areas between them. Now, it's all just one, ever expanding conglomeration of suburbs.
Its the same with Dallas/Fort Worth. There are more than 200 incorporated cities all interconnected. You can't tell where the borders of the cities are. They used to be distinctly separate.

[boroblueyes]

I lived in Porto, Portugal for a year and the coastline is definitely one long metropolis.

[AndreA-dlpo]

The Cascadia mega-region is not contiguous by design. Washington and Oregon have extraordinarily strict growth management laws that discourage urban sprawl unlike many other parts of the country. The goal is to channel nearly all growth (approximately 98%) into existing urban areas. The Seattle urbanized area hasn't grown appreciably in land area in about 30 years. Building almost anything besides a solitary single family home on about 5-10 acres is nearly impossible and some counties have even imposed development moritoriums outside of city limits. The rural areas to the west are VERY rural rather than semi-suburban. The Washington coastline has a tiny population with only a few towns having more than 2, 000 people.

[RexFuturi]

The Great Lakes Megaregion has been talked about for a while, since before the manufacturing all left the area and the cities hollowed out. Even with a major loss of growth, the region is still huge, and the cities are growing more and more into each other.

I grew up near Dayton, Ohio, and the cities of Dayton and Cincinnati are not far from becoming a combined metro area (Daytonnati). Dayton connecting to Columbus will take longer, but it's conceivable that the major cities will all grow together along the highways.

Pittsburgh and Cleveland are almost a single connected area of cities, too. And Cleveland can almost connect to Buffalo. Going the other way, Cleveland could eventually connect to Toledo and then into Detroit, so Buffalo to Detroit could end up a single stretch of urbanized landscape.

[MrYabber]

All the way from the tip of Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine, lies a road called US-1 and it connects the entire East Coast. I live in FL and it is every little bit as beautiful and majestic as you’d imagine…

Edit: In case anyone is wondering, no, the road does not stop. It is continuous for 2, 370 miles.

[Maya_Ruinz]

Just in my 40 years here in Texas, I-35 went from a hand full of gas stations and restaurants along the Austin to San Antonio route, to almost the entire 60 mile (96 km) stretch being full of development and businesses.. it’s honestly pretty wild. In another 40 years there may not even be a distinction between Austin and San Antonio anymore, it will just be urban sprawl as far as the eye can see going north to south.

[stacie]

As a Coloradan, it's crazy that they include Santa Fe and Albuquerque in that "megaregion." Sure, from about canyon city up to Fort Collins, there is a lot of connection, but anything outside of that is separated by a lot of land and dusty fields.

[kafkakaraoke]

One thing Europeans have a problem with is understanding how sprawling US metro areas are. For example, London's greater metropolitan area is 3, 200 square miles. That's big, but the DFW metroplex is 9, 600 square miles 3 times the area. Houston is the same. There are over 200 incorporated cities in DFW alone, more if you include unincorporated communities. So triple Greater London's area, then duplicate it approximately where Manchester is. Do the samething with Birmingham (San Antonio, Austin) and keep all the other cities (Leeds etc.) in place. That's what the Texas Triangle is. The area between Houston and Dallas on I45 isn't really part of the Triangle population wise, just geometrically in the name. It actually goes west from Houston to San Antonio and follows the I35 corridor from Mexico to DFW. Since getting from the center of the main city to the end of constant urbanization takes 3 times as long looking at the distance between city centers isn't a fair approximation. Instead, look at the distance from the edge of one urbanized area to the next. The shearsize of constant urbanization in Southern California, Chicago, New York would astonish you when you compare it to the size of England.

[davidbangtson]

I think you are way underestimating the distance issue. Houston and Dallas alone are 5 hours apart at 80 mph. Some of the reaches shown in these would take as much as 15 hours to cross if there were no traffic jams. In terms of mileage, the most sprawling megaregions span as much as 1000 miles or so.

[SigRho]

Yes, the region in which you live matters a lot. The differences between the West Coast and the Midwest, or the Northeast vs the Southeast are huge, and will likely determine a lot about you. Religion, idioms used, diet, dress style, all of these things are region specific to a shocking degree.

[YasmineGalenornOfficial]

Up here in the Greater Seattle Metropolitan area, cities are divided, mostly, but streets--one block you're in one city, the next block you're in another city.

[ChaoticCobras]

london -> edinburgh is about 330 miles. dallas -> houston is about 240 miles (if you're drawing a straight line)
so a more comparable distance would be london -> the lake district area

[Abigailsoftball]

I live in the rural Florida panhandle about 5 miles from the Alabama border. I actually grew up in Alabama about 15 minutes away from where I currently live now. We only moved here because of the no state income tax lol! I can confirm that the northern rural Florida areas are very much tied to Georgia and Alabama and the the Deep South than it's own state. Partially owing to the fact that it's dodged massive immigration from New England states and the fact that we don't have beaches and it's gets moderately cold here in the winter.

[gordieparenteau]

The Cascadia megaregion includes southern British Columbia in Canada.
The distance from Vancouver to Portland is the same as from Newcastle to Southampton.

[JASONLOTT]

Your reaction was great but the video you were reacting to seemed very rushed & a lot information was left out that could easily have explained each region. Not even the same type of information was provided for each region which made it difficult to compare & comprehend as a viewer. I’ve lived in all of these mega regions. I definitely believe that they will explode in growth & need to identified as mega regions now for funding projects to support their growth. For instance, 40 years ago my family farm was only accessible by dirt roads & freight railway. Today our family farm is the only remaining farm in the area. The dirt road I grew up on is a 6 lane highway. We have sky scrappers towering over the tree line that separates us from the city proper & we are completely surrounded by city. Have to drive 30 to the south and 2 hours to the north to exit the city. A short portion of high speed rail is currently under construction to connect us to the airport with partially approved funding to get us to DC, Nashville, New Orleans & Miami. My personal farm is technically outside of the piedmont mega region & I’m very rural again but in the 3 years I’ve been here I went from being 6 miles to my nearest neighbor to having 154 unit development directly across the street. I retired from the transportation board 5 years after high speed rail to airport was approved & that was 5 years ago. A new high speed rail line with a stop only 15 miles from my new rural farm is currently under review. Additionally high speed rail is currently in place & expanding throughout Florida. In California, high speed rail is under construction to connect its 2 mega regions & also to connect to Las Vegas. Even though the LA Basin to Bay Area is currently further along in its construction, I fully expect the LA to Vegas route to be completed first. I haven’t lived in the other of the other mega regions since the 1990’s early 2000’s, so my information concerning them is too old to comment.