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rewardiflost t1_iw11xop wrote

And 5 of those top 10 are all in one NJ county - Hudson County.

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rpm319 t1_iw1845z wrote

I’m from Hudson county and I’ve called this area the sardine can for years. Whenever I’m driving back, I come over a hill, I see the NYC skyline (and chemical factories) and I know I’m close to home.

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Desperate-Peter-Pan t1_iw1oigu wrote

I commute from Bergen to Jersey city for work. 16 miles takes over an hour some days.

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ruralnorthernmisfit t1_iw2cbmu wrote

Dang… where I live, miles and minutes are an interchangeable term.

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j-random t1_iw34g4j wrote

Sigh, I miss driving in the Midwest.

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CutterJohn t1_iwa2r3h wrote

Except in the midwest minutes are 10-15% lower than miles.

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xentropian t1_iw3oqz4 wrote

If only there was some better way to move from point A to point B, by combining multiple cars all into a single unit, with passengers sharing the same cabs. Hmmm. One can only dream.

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Leading-Garage-8749 t1_iw3rde7 wrote

Guess you haven’t heard of NJTransit? New Jersey can have all the trains we want and still have chronic traffic issues because of local traffic.

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osi_layer_one t1_iw3qito wrote

went to high school in Bergen county(don bosco) but traffic isn't much better in smaller cities...

living in Milwaukee for the last couple decades, my current commute is 19 miles and takes between an hour and an hour and fifteen minutes each way. if I did the same drive outside of rush hour? ~25 minutes.

for a city of 500k people. christ, a good portion of my commute is eight lanes wide.

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beanpoppa t1_iw651nx wrote

I used to think traffic was bad in NJ, and then I had a job in Atalanta. Much worse.

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rewardiflost t1_iw189wu wrote

Hey neighbor! Born in JC in the 60s, and never very far from there.

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Smart_Ass_Dave t1_iw19nvv wrote

The eastern seaboard of the United States is roughly the same size and density as Japan.

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HereIAmSendMe68 t1_iw1hs7x wrote

New Jersey is the most densely populated state. I am pretty sure.

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happydgaf t1_iw1ddn4 wrote

What flavor dessert?

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Dredly t1_iw1hslv wrote

mostly RedMan and Busch Lite

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skywrites8 t1_iw3l93q wrote

It's America, take your pick. Any dessert you want, they have ;)

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Ginyu-force t1_iw1wk9v wrote

Hmm dessert with extra S is for food... I like extra sweet desserts..that's how I remember it. Someone from reddit told me this years back.

Desert is the word you want here. Extra S left it. Its alone.

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skywrites8 t1_iw3l40o wrote

I swear some people just live on Reddit to be grammar police. It's the internet. Human error is a thing. It's not that serious.

Though let's be real, saying America is full of desserts isn't wrong either.

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Ginyu-force t1_iw3mkcf wrote

Hehe not like that. Its something that was helpful to me- Thanks to someone. That extra S can make difference.

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New2thegame t1_iw1r8nx wrote

It's a lot colder in that part of the country. They have to live closer together to stay warm.

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RetroMetroShow t1_iw2f2j1 wrote

They’re not always as dense as in movies and tv tho, sometimes it’s just the accents

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AxelRod45 t1_iw4s2wl wrote

LET'S GO NEW JERSEY WINS

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bones_boy t1_iw1cf4w wrote

Some of those “places” are the size of a postage stamp!! This is interesting.

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No_Street7786 t1_iw25tck wrote

If you scroll down, there’s Mobile City, the most densely populated “city” in Texas with around 150 residents.

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TheCasualParry t1_iw2nsyd wrote

"The 8 most densely populated towns in the US (and the number 10) are either in New Jersey or New York"

Wouldn't that be a better way to explain it?

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moose098 t1_iw4n1r4 wrote

The only one from outside NJ/NY is Maywood, CA which just looks like a regular suburb.

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mrbeamis t1_iw9u0ip wrote

Another reason not to live there

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ash_274 t1_iw2mqus wrote

Density is measured as of number of people per square mile. Since you can’t squeeze too many people/houses into a flat area, you have to build up into taller buildings. The US isn’t uniform in structural need and regulations (ground can’t support the same weight, seismic structural safety gets disproportionately more expensive the higher up or down you go, other expensive features become mandatory over certain heights, etc) so you couldn’t even have the same density in other parts of the country.

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ProfPepitoz t1_iw3ydsf wrote

Its not a competition, just somebody stating something they learned today

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marmorset t1_iw4fdwz wrote

But my sub soil is better than your sub soil.

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Seraph062 t1_iw1o4ux wrote

LA isn't anywhere close to being one of the most densely populated cities in the States. Most of what people think of as "LA" isn't part of the city proper. The actual city is about 4 million people in 500 square miles. That gives you 8k people / square mile. New York (27k/sq mile) and San Francisco (17k/sq mile) blow this out of the water, and then there are a bunch of cities in the 11-13k range like Miami, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

The Greater LA Area does have a higher population density (24k/sq mile) but that is still dwarfed by the greater NYC area (56k/sq mile).

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Spiritual-Bridge3027 t1_iw1p68y wrote

Thanks for bringing a mini encyclopedia to my mobile 😃….. actually, we lived in Jersey City,NJ for 2+ years when we had just arrived in the States and I have no doubt about the NYC metro area’s population statistics you mentioned.

Any mention of NJ brings a nostalgic smile 😊

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tonyofhousestark_ t1_iw1uc42 wrote

any reason why you think metro pop density is higher than city pop density despite being wrong? by your calculation the population of metro new york is 261m people.

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PeachSnappleOhYeah t1_iw129pm wrote

"densely"

edit: for the folks who need a hint:

dense:

  1. closely compacted in substance.
  2. INFORMAL (of a person) stupid. 👈🏻
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DaveOJ12 t1_iw14gml wrote

What's your point?

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Burninator05 t1_iw18drf wrote

I think they're trying to point out that while Guttenberg, NJ is the post densely populated city in the US it is only 23rd in the world.

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JonLongsonLongJonson t1_iw199mc wrote

Well that would be a super dumb point to make, seeing as there’s more than 4,000 places defined as “cities” with a population above 150k, so being 23rd is very close to the top

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Burninator05 t1_iw1azwa wrote

I didn't say their point wasn't dumb especially since OP states the list is specifically about the US. Also, population only kind of plays into what this threat is about as Guttenberg only has a population of 11.1k vs NYC itself being #6 with a population of almost 8.2 million. The area of a city has just as much play in density.

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