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

  1. Not to mention, with far less affordable housing these days
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  2. That’s why the US managed to have 14 times Australia’s population in a similar land area
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  3. And there’s a huge contrast between the populations that can be sustained by humid heat compared to dry heat
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  4.  @brianlong2334  As for why Australia’s desert rainfall fluctuates massively. It again is due to lack of mountains, with the Australian deserts caused by subtropical high pressure and the continent being surrounded by cold waters, which could break down from time to time and the waters could warm up as well. Meanwhile the driest deserts are caused by the rain shadows of massive mountain ranges
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  5.  @satorugojo6133  More like SSA Socialist States of America
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  6. There’s also some Australians who think Australia is full already
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  7.  @ezrathegreatconqueror  Java is even getting a high speed train
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  8. It's also related to the fact that much higher percentage of Mexicans don't have cars compared to US as cars are a lot less affordable to the average Mexican than average American
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  9. And countries like Australia and New Zealand have quite low birth rate so natural growth isn’t going to be high
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  10. It's due to high elevation, if it were lowlands rather than highlands, it would be an extremely hot, humid place
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  11. American
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  12. Well the thing in common is that they are all desert countries
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  13.  @kingpeanut7273  Exactly. Deserts are pretty much always sunny, but they definitely can't support much people
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  14. Midwestern USA is actually cold and wet, and not and dry. Cold because of high latitude. Wet because of Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. Great Lakes means lots of snow in winter and gulf means despite far inland, Midwest is humid during summer as the winds turn southerly meaning that when it gets hot, the heat is humid, not dry
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  15. And then some Europeans went to America to form an even more individualist society than Europe
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  16.  @TomLuTon  The cold definitely plays a part. Just look at all the other Arctic and subarctic parts of the world. Northern Scandinavia, northern and eastern parts of Russia, Alaska, all extremely empty and sparsely populated
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  17.  @TomLuTon  Scandinavia is also warmed by the Gulf Stream meaning the extreme cold sets in at higher latitudes than Canada
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  18. What Australian and North American cities have in common is that they are largely built up after the car, unlike Europe for example
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  19.  @blogdesign7126  City of Los Angeles. LA metro area has 3 times NZ population
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  20.  @FeelingShred  China trying it with its deserts, we should see how it goes
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  21.  @FictionHubZA  Thanks to increased demand
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  22.  @Praisethesunson No, it’s everywhere. Don’t forget communist Cuba and North Korea, countries that reject capitalism are also facing population collapse
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  23.  @DMH-bt2zo  in the US, the south is most populous region however northeast is most densely populated region
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  24. Yeah, it is also true that the southern US is sparsely populated for a region with a humid subtropical climate
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  25. Firstly, it’s extremely difficult if not near impossible to destroy a mountain range. Secondly, east coast where most live is gonna lose out since the mountains actually help trap rain for the east coast
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  26.  @sumeersamarat706  Middle East, North Africa and Southwest USA is desert but far more dense than Australia, especially its desert region
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  27. However, Japan has 25 times NZ population
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  28. And the Outback is like in Arizona
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  29. Actually those 3 countries could have some good high speed rail corridors. Victoria, NSW and southeast Queensland in Australia, Ontario-Quebec in Canada, and for USA, many good options
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  30.  @ChrisJohannsen  Victoria?
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  31. Quebec does have NHL team(Canadiens)
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  32. Also Rio Grande is also half controlled by the US
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  33.  @SuperAerie  Canada and Scandinavia are also similar in which the population is extremely concentrated in the south with the north being very sparsely populated
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  34.  @ChrisJohannsen  Australia is also very hard to invade given the remoteness and climate
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  35. And Manhattan is more than both Dakotas combined
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  36. Airports on the south harbor though
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  37.  @thomas316  Canada, UK and NZ have low birth rates too
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  38. Same as how the largest community of many Carribbean island nations including their own nations are found in Miami or NYC. Auckland has probably similar being a wealthy metropolis in close proximity to a lot of impoverished islands thus drawing a lot of immigrants from there
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  39. Yep, he constantly mentions the Great Plains as one of the best geographic locations of the world. Full of shale oil deposits, crisscrossed by numerous navigable rivers and covered in fertile soil amazing for agriculture
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  40. However, it would have a high gdp per capita as the Outback has tons of natural resources to mine and sell to the world
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  41.  @impacttoinfinity777  Probably Midwestern
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  42. Forests still exist in Australia
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  43. Because the country keeps a low profile on the world stage
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  44. Biggest issue is that the climate in Phoenix is too dry and there’s not enough water to support its population. At least Houston and Minneapolis have lots of water
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  45.  @mildlydispleased3221  UK does get European windstorms though, and sometimes snowstorms
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  46. Or the tropical Canada
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  47.  @bigman1163  I'm saying Australia is like tropical version of Canada
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  48. Only North Island. South Island is cold and similar in temperatures to UK and often sub-zero. But sure, Auckland, on the upper North Island has a warm climate with beach culture and streets lined with palm trees
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  49. 4. Most Americans live in the east
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  50.  @vincentcleaver1925  East of 100W and west of Sierra Nevada/Cascades to be exact
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  51. Phoenix is basically like what if there’s a city the size of Sydney or Melbourne in the middle of the Outback in the Australian context
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  52. Well it's because most jobs are in Auckland
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  53. During the southern summer, generally the 15 hottest places in the world are all located in the Australian Outback
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  54.  @mcfcfan5  Well it’s winter in Southern Hemisphere now
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  55. It’s a paradox that people in rich countries don’t have kids and complain about kids being expensive while people in poor countries with far less money have tons of them
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  56. Other cities have much higher humidity than Phoenix though which makes 85 degrees there feel much hotter than 85 in Phoenix
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  57. South Island is much colder than north. Like unlike north, it frequently gets below freezing and it snows during winter
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  58. USA also took in tons of immigrants from countries like Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Scandinavian countries. They also brought in tons of slaves from Africa, and then after that huge influx of immigrants from Latin America. Also it’s older than Australia so much more time for their to be sustained period of high birth rates leading to lots of natural growth
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  59.  @hakunamatata3935  And without volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis
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  60. South America has Andes to trap the rain
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  61.  @robert3987  Only winters though. Summers are similar and London has hotter summers than most of NZ actually if you look at temperature stats
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  62. Yeah, city limits are arbitrary
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  63. I think he did another video on plan to irrigate entire eastern half of Australia, piping water from the tropical rainforests of northern Queensland to interior regions of QLD, NSW and Victoria
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  64. Phoenix heat is dry, so not sweaty. Sweat capital probably Houston, New Orleans or Miami
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  65. Suburban sprawl vs dense city which results in more water use. Also plants in Phoenix have to be artificially watered due to lack of rain unlike in NYC
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  66. That said, NZ has no unihabitable desert or polar lands like Australia and Canada respectively
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  67. And it’s climate means lack of water. Also examples, Sahara desert is very empty, and the desert parts of countries like US and China are very empty compared to rest of country
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  68. All time high in Phoenix is 122F
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  69.  @mylesiswhite4122  It’s a good thing that none of the major parties support illegal immigration
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  70. He also goes over why the tropical, non-desert part of Australia is also sparsely populated
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  71. And I’ve heard some take regular plane commutes from Perth
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  72. What about the Taliban Empire
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  73. It won’t. You can’t engineer the climate really
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  74.  @MatthewBaka  Basically Australia only had staple crops like wheat and domestic animals after Europeans brought them over
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  75. Considering the US territory was colonized by 3 countries(UK, France and Spain), it very possibly could’ve ended up as at least 3 countries
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  76. That said, new world countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Argentina or even the USA are underpopulated compared to what their land could support even by taking fertility of land into consideration
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  77. Well it's very small in size compared to Australia, the country NZ is compared to
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  78. TheBraveGallade don’t forget the South Korean corporations called chaebols. Even if North Korea started trading and diplomatic relations with the south. I bet they’ll move their factories into North Korea for cheap labor
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  79. However the problem is the birth rate in Australia has already dropped below replacement levels despite the population being small and it being a young country so it’s growth potential is a lot lower compared to other countries in similar timeframe of settlement and founding as compared to other countries which had hundreds of years of high birth rate driven growth which led to high population
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  80. Some say NZ is the southern hemisphere version of Wales cause sheep and rugby
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  81. No typhoons because it’s in the equatorial region. Though typhoons form in tropics, it doesn’t form in equatorial region. No heatwaves because it’s an archipelago and heatwaves form over large continental land masses and the fact that it’s wet year round
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  82.  @danielthunder9876  Well most Australian immigrants come from Asia so Asian cuisine is a big thing
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  83. Also many parts of Africa
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  84.  @greatcanadianmoose3965  I'm talking about other places outside of France where they speak French
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  85. Not actually. South Island is very cold and gets a lot of snow
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  86. It’s cheap because local incomes are very low
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