Geography Shapes Where We Live

The reason you live where you live is actually just geography controlling your life.

If you look at a human footprint map of the Eastern US, it is not random

at all. That massive dark streak from Boston to DC exists solely because flat land

and deep harbors made trade easy. Meanwhile, the Appalachian Mountains are basically

empty because building there was a nightmare. Pittsburgh blew up because of coal, and Miami is packed

because of the weather. We literally just follow the path of least resistance. We think we chose

our cities, but really the rivers and rocks chose them for us.