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📺 Why The US Southeast Coast is Absurdly Empty [RealLifeLore] (www.youtube.com)
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Tl;dr:

  • Several geographic effects of the erosion of the Appalachian range over hundreds of millions of years, like the Fall Zone, being the dividing line between the hilly, higher altitude Piedmont interior and the flat, sandy, swampy, and nutrient poor exterior.
  • Hurricanes
  • Malaria
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Lol.

Lots of that space is really beautiful countryside. I've driven through a fair bit of it.

Wealthy people used to summer in the Appalachians - it's 10-20 degrees cooler there in the summer.

Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway run for a total of hundreds of miles from Northern VA to I think Georgia, along the eastern portion of the Appalachians. I've ridden some of it on my bike in the summer, and it's amazing, especially the Shenandoah valley.

Really, once you go west of 95 even a couple miles it becomes farmland.

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