Arny said:
Yeah, but it is all grass.
ROFL, obviously you have never been there
Yeah, but it is all grass or desert.
You are showing your ignorance Arnie, do some research
Yeah, but it is all grass or desert.
You are showing your ignorance Arnie, do some research
Yeah, but it is all grass or desert.
You are showing your ignorance Arnie, do some research
Yeah, but it is all grass or desert.
You are showing your ignorance Arnie, do some research
What you don't seem to get is that Texas is a civilized, productive state
with a number of great cities and modern infrastructure. Texas, just one
state has a population of 23,507,783, while the whole of Australia has
same-year population of only 20,600,856. Texas, just one state has a GSP of
$771 billion dollars while all of Australia has same-year GNP $544 billion
dollars. Do the math - the average Texan is almost 50% more productive than
the average aussie, which is one reason why we have less wasteland.
If we accept you figures, which I don't have time to check, it would
imply that the average Texan produces $32,531 per year and the average
Australian $26,408 per year. I.e. the average Australian produces 81% of
a Texan - it looks like your numeracy skills are on a par with your
literacy ones.
Alaska is the only US state that compares to Australia for absence of
civilization. Unlike Australia we have 49 other states that are definitely
civilized. Well, 48 - Nevada is pretty sparse. ;-)
Exactly. Unlike underdeveloped spaces like Australia that are mostly desert
and grazing land, the US has plenty of empty space, *and* lots of
well-developed land populated by a wealthy,highly productive people.
And extremely poor people living off the minimum wage with no health cover.
Like most Americans you confuse quantity with quality lets look at The
Economist's 2008 top 10 list of most livable cities
1 Vancouver Canada 98.8
2 Melbourne Australia 98.2
3 Vienna Austria 97.9
4 Perth Australia 97.3
5 Toronto Canada 97.0
6 Helsinki Finland 96.9
7 Adelaide Australia 96.6
- Calgary Canada 96.6
9 Geneva Switzerland 96.1
- Sydney Australia 96.1
- Zurich Switzerland 96.1
I see 4 Australian cities there but no US ones
Then there is Mercer's quality of living index survey 2008
1 Zurich Switzerland 108
2 Vienna Austria 107.9
- Geneva Switzerland 107.9
4 Vancouver Canada 107.6
5 Auckland New Zealand 107.3
6 Dusseldorf Germany 107.2
7 Munich Germany 107
- Frankfurt Germany 107
9 Bern Switzerland 106.5
10 Sydney Australia 106.3
11 Copenhagen Denmark 106.2
12 Wellington New Zealand 105.8
13 Amsterdam The Netherlands 105.7
14 Brussels Belgium 105.4
15 Toronto Canada 105.3
16 Berlin Germany 105
17 Melbourne Australia 104.8
- Luxembourg Luxembourg 104.8
19 Ottawa Canada 104.8
20 Stockholm Sweden 104.5
21 Perth Australia 104.3
22 Montreal Canada 104.2
23 Nurnberg Germany 104.1
24 Oslo Norway 103.7
25 Dublin Ireland 103.5
- Calgary Canada 103.5
27 Hamburg Germany 103.4
28 Honolulu US 103.1
Wow! there is an American city there at 28 behind 3 Australian ones. I
don't think that I would call Honolulu a typical American city though.