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Europe at night (i.imgur.com)

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[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (11 children)

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You English are really packed in there.

[–]nich959 11 points12 points  (5 children)

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You know whats funny, there is still masses of green fields and farmland without any building even in the southeast were the light is most prominent.

[–]asilly -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

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Masses, what a joke, I can drive for about 2-3 hours on a large road in Iowa(a state in America) seeing only farm fields, while running into small towns every 20 or so minutes, maybe a small city here and there, and no, Iowa is not just farmers in small towns...

[–]nich959 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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I never claimed it was anything like the states, but England is not some urban infested hell that this photo makes out.

[–]asilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I was joking around, accidentally being too serious.

[–]relentless19 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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Oh look an arrogant American what a shocker.

[–]asilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I'm not that arrogant, just saw an opportunity .

[–]catjellycat 6 points7 points  (2 children)

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I live in London and I was just thinking the other day about how far I'd have to go* to be actually alone. It's a rare thing. There is a shit ton of us in not very much space. Yet as someone else said, there's still a lot of open space. I went to a Kent county park on a Monday morning the other week and at the top of the North Downs it was just me and the husband.

*obviously not 'far' in any 'I live in a country which has different time zones' kind of way but far in a British kind of way (e.g anything over 45 minutes on a motorway)

[–]AnticitizenPrime 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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I just got back last week from a three-week trip to the UK. I rented a car and drove from London to Dover, then west to Cornwall, then Cardiff, up through Wales, then east to Edinburgh, up to Aberdeen, west again through the whiskey trail, and went camping for a few days in Glencoe (where I didn't see another human for over a day), then flew out of Glasgow.

I was really surprised to see how much green, open land there was in a place so populated. Everyone in Glasgow is stacked on top of each other in huge tenement buildings and then farmland begins right outside the city. In America all those people would be in suburbs stretching out for miles.

[–]catjellycat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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there's a map on mapporn at the moment showing the population in terms of Londons and you can see why you might not see anyone for days in certain bits of the country.

[–]Blackspur 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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I think we are like 50 ish on the most densely populated countries. Which is pretty dense considering 99% of the countries before that are incredibly small islands. I think that number also accounts for Wales and Scotland as well so if you were to discount those to areas of land it is within the top 10 I think.