Curiosity question, 'cause my siblings say I'm wrong on this.
Do you guys think of ALL New England (Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine included) as being mostly populated, pretty densely, no big spaces left? 'Cause in my experience (serving with people in the military), a lot of southerners think that. They think of the northeast as practically one big city, just like almost all of us in this country tend to associate NY with NYC, when there are HUGH portions of the state that are nothing but woods and farmland.
But the reality is that except for some of the southern New England states, there are acres and acres of nothing but woods. Now...it isn't flat, so it's not like it's fields spreading out as far as the eye can see, but there are long stretches of road where you can only see one house or farm here, another two or three clustered there...mostly nothing. And sometimes not even that.
Nope. I didn't think of those states as densly populated. I figured pretty much what you said but that the coastal areas of Maine perhaps had a *slight* but more population. More towns anyway.
But, then, I'm always lookin' at maps and studyin' towns and their sizes on the maps.
No, I've never thought that about New England. I've only been as far north as Taxachusetts but I don't even think of them or New York as "all one big city."
'Course we're not all cotton plantations either. ;-)
I know I do. I think of the entire East coast being one big city, everything East of the Mississippi is paved...
You mean it's not? ;~D
Actually, I don't picture that for Vermont or Maine... But yeah, I do see New York and Pennsylvania and Mariland and D.C area as only their cities.
There's LOTS of land in Central and Western MA, but unless you're self-employed, it's a LONG commute to work!
The same thing goes for the interior portions of NH, VT, and to some extent, CT. There are some gorgeous areas of NH and VT in the mountains. Great in the summer, lousy in the winter; especially for a Southern gal.