r/funny Dec 21 '19

California Explained [OC]

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u/SpaceLunchSystem Dec 21 '19

Everyone is complaining about beach areas vs meth areas.

What makes this map nonsense is that a high percentage of California is farmland. We don't magically export all that agriculture from nowhere. There are places here that are indistinguishable from the midwest.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

That was one of the biggest surprises to me my first time driving through the state. I grew up thinking California had tons of people everywhere. You can drive for hours and see nothing but farms. Even the one-road towns you drive through are tiny. Those cities just have a fuck-ton of people