Japanese React to How Big is USA Actually ?
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Hi Timothy, many of the states in the western US are larger states with relatively low populations, also Alaska is huge with a low population. This is why we are less densely populated than Japan. Good job on getting the the largest states and cities, Houston is the fourth city.
Alaska isn't just huge, it's actually about 17% of the entire land area of the US. All that stuff about how big the whole country is? Just shy of 1/5 of that is just Alaska.
@@tildessmoo and it's 1/50th of the us states, it's big
I used to be a cross country truck driver. There were times I'd stop and sleep in texas, wake up the next day, drive 11 hours straight, and park for the night and STILL BE IN TEXAS. Its friggin huge! Foreigners are always surprised at the massive amounts of empty space between cities and towns as well. It will take about 17 hours or so to drive from Florida to New York.
The sun has riz the sun has set and here I am in Texas yet.
@@armadillotoe in texas to
When I lived in Montana I was in the most central city and the closest next city was an hour away (driving at about 90-100mph). We would make a day trip to a city an hour and a half away (same speeds) to go shopping at stores we didn't have. When I wanted to visit my family in Oregon it was an 11 hour drive (about 700 miles).
That's insane haha
The diverse indigenous American populations may interest you. They aren't really talked about at all in America, possibly because their lands have their own sovereignty. But from what I've seen, they could use more attention
As an Indigenous person, I concur.
I used to study a lot about them when i was super into Alaska (still am) and they genuinely fascinate me
They aren't talked about much mainly because they are mostly dead. Not a joke, it's just the way it is. Their populations are just so small and the ones that really retain their unique culture are also incredibly isolated. When even Americans don't know much about natives, it's hard to teach foreigners as well.
@@enderoctanus We're not as dead as you think, just scattered, very diverse, and not as loud as the other voices of the world.
Edit: There is a lot to learn about the numerous nations that still exist all around the continent if you know where to look. Many people still hold Indigenous history as well as current cultural practices.
Come to Oklahoma if you want an interesting view of Native American tribes in modern times.😅 Some tribes here aren't only thriving, they're wealthy and powerful.
In 2019, Oklahoma's tribes contributed $15 BILLION to the economy. The Chickasaw Nation alone is rich and connected.
About the plane tickets, they are expensive!! especially for families. Since we visit San Antonio Texas every year or two, we usually drive since plane tickets are expensive
My hometown hope you enjoyed San Antonio.
Mildy interesting story - someone flying between Tokyo and Las Angeles noticed a large chain of islands halfway through the flight. They were the Aluetian islands, part of Alaska. The flight attendant explained that were following the closest route. If you look at a globe, you will see this is true, though it does not seem possible looking at a flat map. Flat maps of long distances are always very distorted and misleading.
true!
If you factor in, that you need a car to get around once you arrive. A plane flight often becomes more expensive because of a rental vehicle.
To Americans, japan seems SUPER crowded. It's part of the reason that we are so adamant about maintaining personal space here; there's plenty of it to go around, so there's rarely a need to be within a meter of another person unless you're extremely good friends or family with them, except in very crowded cities.
In Japan, since there is so much less space per person, people are more comfortable being very close to others. It also probably helps that Japanese people have a very strong sense of unity and community, and Americans often do not.
I drive 4 to 5 hours depending on bathroom breaks to visit my cousins and we both live in Texas. If you start at a certain point in Texas and factor in stops for fuel, food, etc you can drive all day and still be in Texas...lol.
I lived on Yokota Air Base when I was 4.
That’s so cool 😎
The really crazy part is that ALL he US military personnel made the choice to join the military... No mandatory military service in the US.
Flying is more for time sensitive stuff and most people would just drive state to state. Me and my family would often drive non stop from Georgia to Ohio with each adult taking turns driving while the other sleeps.
how long is that ?
@@Choppylovechoppy I literally just got back from a road trip from Central Florida to Northern Ohio and back. Each way took about 18 hours of driving.
Same here. Back in 2017, on second visit to Chicago. We decided to take road trip from Miami to there. According the Google map, it take a almost day to get there nonstop, which is we were going to do that. However, it was stormy night in northern Georgia, my mom decided to not to risk it and stop at the motel. We continue the rest of it the next day.
@@Choppylovechoppy we went from Oregon to wisconsin with three drivers, it took about 30 hours of nearly continuous driving
damn
A drive from Charlotte to Cleveland is 8 hours so i can imagine from Georgia to Ohio is probably 10-12 hours
Flying is not that cheap. I'd say it's about average from what I have seen (but haven't experienced) in other countries. Budget airlines such as Spirit and Frontier have been growing pretty quickly though so the competition should help to bring prices down across all airlines in the US. Alaska and JetBlue are usually the most expensive in the U.S.. Avoid American airlines if you don't want a terrible experience.
To give context how large the US is, Japan is roughly the size of California, which doesn’t cover the entire western coastline
Flying is still very expensive compared to other methods of travel and is usually done for business or occasional vacations by those who can afford it. It is even more expensive since covid. Because of security check-ins times, unreliable scheduling frequently changed on you at the last minute and weather delays it can also take 6-10 hours of your day to take a flight even if only 3 hours of that time is actually in the air. Instead, most people drive everywhere in the U.S., driving is by far the most common and expected transportation mode, including between states and even across country though of course the further you have to go the more tempting air travel becomes. For cross country trips by car covering several states some people choose to swap multiple drivers while the others sleep in the car and thus finish the trip in one long haul. I've personally been on car trips between 13 and 23 hours long, driving nonstop other than restroom breaks and fast food stops, in order to visit other states. Other people may choose to break such a long trip up into two or maybe three days, staying in a hotel someplace overnight to make it slightly less exhausting. Typically those elderly enough to have retired from full-time work are the only folks who have the time to let the trips themselves take longer, the rest of us only have so many vacation days to use in a year and most people do not want to use them all up for long leisurely drives. We're often more interested in spending that extra time at our destination and so will push through the long car trips to get wherever we want to be faster. Also, depending on your starting location, many state-to-state trips cannot be conveniently done by rail since we do not have a lot of high speed rail lines here and even the rail lines we do have often do not interconnect many states or cities directly and trips can require several train changes and circutous routes. As a result travel by rail can often times take far longer than it would to just drive it since our expressway systems are extensive. Again, the more populous an area the more public transportation is feasible, but the further you get from a very large city the more you're going to wish you had a car if you wish to visit and see everything available to you.
I see, thanks !
This comment is unbelievably accurate
The largest city by land mass is Jacksonville, FL.
In the contiguous US. But yep, just because it consolidated with Duval county. It's pretty big.
Flying is actually pretty expensive since it takes so much gas to get places. You can do multiple layovers between shorter flights to lessen cost, but it also takes forever lol. Roadtrips are very popular, especially if you are 'carpooling' with multiple people and split the gasoline cost.
The US is so large that you can also make a long drive more fun by stopping at random cities and tourist attractions along the way, especially if you are driving through multiple states. RVs or campers are a great option for road trips! We also have trains and tour buses you can take, and sometimes those are cheaper than taking a flight, but it all depends on where you are going, how long you have available for travel, that sort of thing.
If you are going from New York to Florida, for example, that's like 1200 miles or about 1900 km. It's a LONG drive lol. It takes a few days to drive, but a plane ride is about 2-3 hours. If you have an interest in stopping at a few states, you can drive, but if you don't want to devote nearly a week to just driving there and back, it makes more sense to fly lol.
If you wanted to go to California, however, yeah it is farther, but there are so many beautiful states along the way, and it costs a LOAD of cash to fly there, so it just makes more sense to carpool in someone's RV (or rent one) and visit places along the way.
Like always, amazing video! and yes, the USA is HUGE if i try to drive from where i live to the north side of my state, texas it would be 12 hrs 43 mins (1324.651 km)
First time viewer here, and I had to stop to say your voice and your accent is absolutely lovely, so soothing and relaxing!!!! I may commission you to read aloud an old Japanese fairy tale for asmr purposes hahahaha
Haha thanks 😂🙏🏻
There's a saying, everything is bigger in Texas. We don't measure distances by miles, we measure by hours to drive
haha
Hi timothy! So I was born in New York, and I grew up there for about 25 years. Then I moved to North Carolina. I am not able to drive medically. So while a lot of people might drive from state to state a lot of the time, I take the train usually when I go back home. From North Carolina to New york, the train costs me about $300 for a round trip. I had to visit Oklahoma back in june. Because there's no train that runs from North Carolina to Oklahoma, I had to fly. Round trip, that ticket cost me about $450. There is big business on plane tickets in the us. We have whole websites about finding you the cheapest flights from state to state. The travel isn't super cheap, but it's cheap enough that you can save for it if you're not doing it super often.
Thank you ! Just imagined the train ride in the USA and damn that would be cool. Still pretty expensive compared to japan but that's probably because of the distance difference
@@Choppylovechoppy The ride from NC to NY takes about 14 hours one way! SO that's pretty much the reason, yeah. 😂
The ride is nice, except for Virginia. Going through that state takes roughly 5 or 6 hours and it's just fields or woods. Which is beautiful, but gets monotonous after 5 hours. Lol!
They didn’t conclude Alaska or Hawaii the USA is 9 million and 500 thousand square miles bigger than china by 50 thousand square miles USA is the 3 largest country behind Canada and Russia
My mom came from Yokohama in 1950 and I was born in Georgia in 52 , went to kindergarten in Germany and have lived in Washington since 1958.
wow interesting, your mum is Japanese then ?
@@Choppylovechoppy She passed 2 years ago 1 week before her 93 birthday. She married a G.I. in Japan in 49 and this is after dodging bombs as a teenager that we dropped and she & her older sister marries an Americans.
4:52 i'm from the usa and i didn't even know that
I lived at the Misawa air base from 2015-2019 😊
You are a crazy kid, keep up the good work with the cool vids
Good video! It's good to get the view of an 'outsider'!
Flying isn't cheap (usually), but it's not too bad; and you can find some really *good* deals if you search. Taking a bus can be pretty inexpensive, but they can take quite a while to get you where you're going, because many of them stop at so *many* places along the way.
I have flown many times (and usually enjoyed it), and have used a bus quite a few times (not so enjoyable because a long trip can take a long time, and often they're packed *very* full - *not* fun!). But I prefer to drive, even for a 500 mile (~900 km.) trip. I can stop whenever *I* want to stop, not according to somebody else's schedule!
About 15 years ago I got the opportunity to travel across the country - I traveled about 4000 miles (~6500 km.) over about 5 weeks. I saw *amazing* sights, met wonderful people and just generally enjoyed the whole experience ... at least partly because I made my own schedule, and went where I wanted, without having to stick to somebody else's route or schedule!
If you get the chance, come visit the U.S. and try to travel around on your own (not on some 'guided trip' on a bus or even by plane) - but bring a friend, 'cause traveling is more fun when you share the experience!
'Domo arigato' for the video!
Flying isn't very common and mostly used when you don't have other options. I've only been on six separate planes in my life. the first time I was 8 and needed to go home from a family reunion but no one was available to drive me; I had a flight transfer midway through and that was my second plane. I had to take two flights to get to another country and another two to get back. The most common mode of transportation is definitely driving. My family takes a 6 hour drive and back for Christmas every year. We also take that same trip over spring break and summer break. My dad and I go on two ten-hour trips each year. I have a half-hour drive to school. My summer volunteer job is an hour drive away. My town's airport doesn't have any international flights but it always has at least one flight to Atlanta and one to Miami. I live in a college town so it's pretty well populated, 20 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, ten high schools, two malls, 10 shopping centers. Everything is well spaced out and pretty close by but I know that when I was traveling someone apologized because we would be going on a long, 2-hour drive and I thought, just 2 hours, that's nothing? The U.S. i absolutely huge, it takes up about a third of the North American continent and the east coast is about the size of Japan.
Trust me, not even Americans can fully comprehend how big the US is. I’m pretty sure that’s true for any big country. Unless you go from coast to coast by road, you won’t be able to even slightly comprehend it. Even then, it’s mind-boggling, and excludes Alaska and Hawaii from the experience.
Florida is number 4 with around 1trillion in gdp. So you were close on that as well
I grew up in El Paso, Texas. Travelling across Texas to Orange, TX (this includes bypassing San Antonio) is longer than traveling to Los Angeles, CA. And from Orange to Jacksonville Beach, FL is shorter than to El Paso.
Travel can be expensive depending on where you want to go. I live in Buffalo NY, if I wanted to get to NYC I could take a bus (hell no) for like 6 hrs or fly there in like 1 hr. And I have flown there round trip for about $200 or less. If you want to go farther like NY- Nevada, that was more like $450. But it also depends on the airline and when you buy.
Can I just say? Watching you eat those snacks made this video 10x funnier! 😂
It takes about 4 days to travel from east coast to west coast and it’s about 4 hours to fly it.
No flying is expensive it depends on the time of year around the holidays it's more expensive and the distance too because you will have layovers too if you want to fly with no layovers it'll be expensive and a pilot is only allowed to fly so many hours before they have to switch for safety reasons
It also depends on the airline
(Southwest,spirit etc)
Our population is really increasing every year , but that’s not a bad thing. And our overall population is closer to 400 million than it is to 300 million, I think we are at about 375 million now
I know that Japanese people, if they ever do migrate to the US, love to move to Hawaii and California. Hawaii has a huge Japanese population while California has the highest. That's where a Japanese American created the California roll after all within Little Tokyo in LA.
I read that there are almost 1 million Japanese people in the US. Funnily enough though there are far more Chinese Americans than Japanese Americans with over 5 million. I guess it makes sense though when considering the population of China.
During each of your videos, I think “He’s so adorable”. So I thought I’d tell you this time. You’re so adorable, I bet it’s impossible for your parents to get mad at you
This'll be cool!
Yeah some of these stats are outdated by now just heads up
Has anyone mentioned that California alone is bigger than Japan?
I've been to China multiple times and there's no way the PPP is better than the US.
Salaries individual people earn probably make numbers a bit wonky. But idk I don’t do economics
California is about the same physical size as Japan.
Domestic Airfare in the US averages about $427 (¥49,528). International Airfare from the US averages about $775 (¥87,836).
well that's definitely more expensive than i thought... (domestic)
Flying is cheap I’m America it’s cost less than most iPhones buy if we wanted to fly to Japan it’s would be over at most 1,000 but u probably can get a discount and it would be like manye 500-600 dollars
If you wish to come to America, than come.
Bokksu ships only to us? 1:14 reaction so funny 😂
No there's a whole bunch of countries they ship to but unfortunately not to Albania at his moment...
"OooohhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" to the 10th power!!!!!
My friend, don't mistake the personal biases of the overly visual/vocal minority as the US's national viewpoint. Most of the America citizens are very welcoming to all immigrants. Unfortunately, there are some who find it easier to blame their lack of economic satisfaction on immigrants than their own ineptitude.
Flying is cheaper when you book ahead of time, like months in advance. But usually people drive unless you're literally going to another side of the country. It's generally cheaper to drive unless you have to drive more than 8 hours or so, or if you are planning a vacation 6 months in advance, then you can get cheaper plane tickets than if you booked the flight a week or two in advance.
So whether to fly or drive is sorta case by case. If you have to travel long distance for work, they'll usually pay for you to fly. If you're planning a vacation a long time in advance, it's cheap enough to get tickets. And if driving would take 20 hours or something stupidly long, it may be better (and cheaper) to fly, even on short notice. Other than those, usually you drive.
i see
Top 10 US Airlines By Fleet Size:
1. American Airlines (1,440)
2. United Airlines (1,391)
3. Delta Air Lines (1,170)
4. Southwest Airlines (736)
5. Alaska Airlines (423)
6. JetBlue (270)
7. Spirit Airlines (157)
8. Allegiant Air (107)
9. Frontier Airlines (104)
10. Hawaiian Airlines (61)
When we went to the usa we flew with American Airlines and they were super nice, when i vomited their care was super 😂🙏🏻
We have space! Move to the US people! Plenty of people!
To fly from Kansas City to New York is 4 hours.
Come to Texas.
Japan only has 125 million people.
Britain could fit in my state easily.
lol
Just to give you an idea Timothy, I grew up in West Texas and to get to East Texas to go to the beach in the Gulf of Mexico it would be about 15 hours of straight driving in the car going an average of 70 mph. And it would be about the same time to get to LA or Salt Lake City.
wooow texas is huge
@@Choppylovechoppy Texas is roughly the same size as France
@@Choppylovechoppy Japan in area size is roughly comparable to California. Also 6 of the top ten most populous cities are in California and Texas, with 3 each.
California is just a bit bigger than Japan.
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I just watched your testimony video, and I was amazed! RUclipsrs don't normally share their testimony for everyone to see. Because of this, I got an idea. You should do a reaction video to Wolves At the Gate "Dead Man" and "The Father's Bargain", both their original versions and their acoustic ones from their Reprise EP. You should also do a reaction to Phinehas' "Crowns", the original one and the acoustic one. They are both Christian metal bands. A lot of people in the USA think that metal is evil and dark, but a lot of metal bands talk about Jesus in their music. If you do a video for "Dead Man", read Colossians 2; some of the lyrics are pulled directly from there.
Can you do this ruclips.net/video/DwKPFT-RioU/видео.html
I’m not sure but I think North Korea has more active military people then any other country. From what I understand men and women HAVE to serve. Men have to do 10 years and females have to do seven years … I think.
I remember hearing North Korea has the most active duty female soldiers and is the third largest military in the world.
Please react to the movie hacksaw ridge, i think it’s a great idea
Hi Timothy, flying is generally used to cross the country. I live in the Midwest, so flying is something I would do if I was going to California, but probably not if I went to the east coast. Also, there's plenty of people in this country who do hate immigrants. The USA has a long history of shutting out immigrants they don't consider white.
interesting
what a bunch of BS
we like immigrants just not illegal immigrants
@@CotechProjector Oh honey, who are you kidding
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If anything, net migration is underestimated because so many illegal immigrants go uncounted.
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Helo
Ngl those snacks look real tasty
do they have dietary friendly boxes, like a Vegan box? I know probably not but I WANT THIS.
You could find something similar I'm sure that's marketed specifically towards vegans. Probably easier than checking every ingredient list.
Dont eat while you do a video
You're so beautiful bro omg
Tell you what I'll come back when you stop eating.
Do not talk and eat at same time. Please
driving and owning a car is a HUGE deal in the united states due to the size of the country and how poor our public transportation is. taking your driver's license test when you turn 16 is almost like a right of passage for us, most high school's will even have a driving class based out of the school for students to take. without a car you're basically stranded so almost everyone learns how to do it.
U pause waaaay too much aye aye aye
If i don't then people complain talking over the video 🤷🏻♂️
I wish I didn’t have misophonia. I have to unsubscribe, unfortunately.
Not working eating talking and making a video.not working
Flying is expensive most people can’t afford it and everything is pretty much expensive since you are taxed on literally everything. Also yea USA does get lots of immigrants but the American people are not welcoming ..racism has become more of a problem also lots of Americans are angry all the time and lash out at random strangers for no reason ..idk if you heard the term “Karen”
Yeah whenever i'm bored i go watch videos of Karens on youtube loool
@@Choppylovechoppy haha good idea they are pretty entertaining 😆