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Originally Posted by Handro
LA was city-suburb for like 3 hours before it started to feel like countryside, and traffic was relatively light at the time. Even NYC seems like you hit the hinterlands sooner than LA.
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Yeah, distance wise, L.A. stretches on farther in some ways. Manhattan to the Poconos is roughly 80 miles, and the Poconos is about 20-30 miles into the hinterlands. Downtown L.A. to San Bernadino looks to be about 60-65 miles, and feels very suburban the entire way. But going north on I-5, L.A.'s urbanity does seem to drop off closer to the city than other directions.
Of course, if you go north or south on I-95 from Manhattan, there are hardly any hinterlands between Boston and Northern Virginia.