Comments by "thomas grabkowski" (@thomasgrabkowski8283) on "OBF" channel.

  1. Well Perth is connected by highways and railways to rest of Australia, unlike Manaus to rest of Brazil
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  2.  @SmartPhone7  And rice takes far less growing area to feed a large population than wheat and corn+is grown on hillside terraces rather than large open plains making it suited for the mountainous terrain of East Asian countries
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  3. Tbh Marylanders tend to consider themselves northeastern, not southern
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  4. Japan lacking flat land+ has monsoon climate is also reason why their staple crop is rice which is grown on hillside terraces and benefits from being soaked in water when it floods rather than wheat and corn like in the US which is suited for large plains and drier conditions
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  5. Colombia's geography isn't as good as their neighbors. It's mountainous, gets natural disasters and doesn't have as much natural resources as their neighbors
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  6. Japan's climate isn't that good. Tons of snow and cold in winter, hot and humid during summer+typhoons
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  7. At least Philippines has better natural resources
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  8. Well not really, since during Cold War, as a US ally and a capitalist country, it finds itself in a bad position being surrounded by the communist countries of USSR(later Russia), North Korea and China
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  9. Taiwan is an ally of Japan
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  10.  @TurtleGamers1  Still the coastal areas is estimated to be able to handle 90 million and they only have 25 million
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  11. It wasn’t stupidity, but rather planned. It was due to Apartheid government deliberately designing cities that way to marginalise black population
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  12. And some of the highest home ownership rates, thanks to low housing costs
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  13. But Tokyo has 38 million. Imagine how spread out it would be if it was the density of LA
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  14. White southerners also tend to be poorer compared to white people in other parts of the country
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