#33: New York Is a Melting Pot
New York City may be a melting pot, but the rest of the state is pretty mundane. Of course, you’ve got different terrain, but take the city out of New Yorkers, and you have your average northern countryside folk. I’ve met a few New Yorkers who lived on farms way out in the middle of nowhere, and I doubt they’d last ten minutes in New York City proper.
Over 8.5 million people live in New York City, with an additional 11 million living in the rest of the state. That’s crazy when you think about it, considering New York City is 300 square miles. The state is 55,000 square miles. It seems to me like it’s pretty sparsely populated in comparison!