California's Lopsided Population Distribution

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by Crawford

That makes no difference in the discussion. If an area is lightly populated, or empty as the moon, it doesn't change the fact that the population distribution isn't in those geographies.

LA's population distribution wouldn't change if people were forced to farm the deserts, and NJ's population distribution wouldn't change if people were forced to vacate the forests. They would both still have overwhelming population distribution in relatively narrow corridors.[/U]

They don't. In LA everybody lives in one corner of the area. In NJ, the large majority live in New York and Philadelphia suburbs; yet you have like 2 million people living elsewhere in the state, occupying every single corner of it.

[plinko]

Shockingly I saw a fully planted field right next to the 101 in the San Fernando Valley just yesterday. This is actually in LA City:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/p9x9EusnhxqvgXfE6

Corn and pumpkins...

Originally Posted by iheartthed

There is farmland in LA County: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DTSzZAiDQmi6r9uA8

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by plinko

Shockingly I saw a fully planted field right next to the 101 in the San Fernando Valley just yesterday. This is actually in LA City:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/p9x9EusnhxqvgXfE6

Corn and pumpkins...

Looks like this is one of those "tourist farms" which survives based on retail store, holiday corn mazes, etc. These tend to be the only kind of farms that survive in built up areas (not counting the sort of "urban farms" you sometimes find in blighted neighborhoods).

[craigs]

Originally Posted by plinko

Shockingly I saw a fully planted field right next to the 101 in the San Fernando Valley just yesterday. This is actually in LA City:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/p9x9EusnhxqvgXfE6

Corn and pumpkins...

I drove by there today!