This is my favorite sponsorship I’ve ever seen or heard. Great job toycat! I vaguely remember watching h2o with my sibling when I was younger and it was decent.
I used to watch H2O I loved that show! I dont know how we got it, Im pretty sure Australia is nearly completley antipotle to where I live. Actually just looked it up , the antipote to me is just west of perth slightly in the Pacific Ocean.
As someone who lives in a very populated city, I find it bizarre that more people live in the same city as I do as scores of countries. Population density is weird.
New York City still messes with me. Scotland has a population around 5.5 million, the whole country. New York City, *one city*, has 8.5 million. Astounding.
Mexico city has more people than Australia... that is a whole continent... I live in a big city on Mexico that has around 6 million people if you count the city that is 20 miles away. This is around 20% of northern Mexico population...
@@Pusher97 all of new zealand has 5 million people with an area of 268000 square km, new delhi has an area of 42.7square km and a population of 21 million
I live in a town about 10 miles away from the nearest city, but if I'm meeting other people, I'll say I'm from the city as they wouldn't have heard of the town
Similar situation here. If the person doesn’t have any sense of SoCal geography, then I say I’m from LA. If they kinda know LA, then I say I’m about hour outside of LA. If the actually know the greater LA area, then I say the actual town.
i live an hour from boston, and if my family is traveling/vacationing and people ask where we are from we just say boston. Its just easier than trying to explain where in the state we live. (usually people already figure that from our "accent" or maybe word choices).
Yeah, someone I know lived in Southern New Hampshire, but when he got a job as a basketball player in another country, he just said he was from Boston instead of saying the name of the small town he grew up in.
Same. I live much closer to Providence, but it's confusing since it's in another state. So I might just say Massachusetts and leave it at that unless they want to know more.
What you saw as the City of Buenos Aires functions as an Autonomous City, meaning they have seats in the Congress, and 3 seats in the Senate as all the other 23 provinces; everything around it (Villa Martelli, Florida, etc) are part of the Province of Buenos Aires. The City has a population of 2.9 million, making it the 4th most populated "province". The Province itself has 15.6 million, but most of them live around the City; the county of La Matanza (yeah, "The Killing"), which has a border with the City, has a population of 1.7 million. It's the only county in the Province with more than a million people.
To answer your question at the end ... I live about 30 minute drive away from the major city near me, if I'm discussing from someone far away from the region, I'll say I live in that city. If it's someone really close, I'll get specific as to what town I'm from that's 30 minutes away
I love my nearest big city and plan on going to college there, but I consider it a separate place to where I live. I live in the country, and I identify more with the village down the hill than with the city.
im living in the province of buenos aires, when somebody from the city asks where i live i tell them im from ituzaingó, but with people from other places its easier to say im from buenos aires
11:13 What kind of kebab do they make. Is it a dragonic kebab, capable of giving the otherwordly power to not sleep in the middle of class, and acheive 10 out of 10s at the yugioh championship taking place beside the dumpster. Do you gain the ability to magically summon seals to cuddle with, who turn into temporal deities when you don't give them enough pets. We need a conclusion to the epic what power does the 'Best Kebab' bestow.
16:08 I just imagined Paris being like" Ohh that is quite a nice baguette you've mind if I take a bite." and being in the sewers like 'It' from the movie 'It'. Kind of creepy, And now I'm imaging Instanbul? Costantinople? Y'know what Byzantium being a h0t anime girl, saying "please capture me Crusader-senpa1". Why is mind like this.
I remember when I told someone something like, oh yeah, you're from Dallas, and he was like, no, I'm from Mesquite, and I was like, yeah, Dallas. My rural brain was so focused on the country vs small town vs big city difference that I had forgotten that city people distinguish between cities and their contiguous suburbs.
I think the rule I use is I'll distinguish where I live in my city (London) to other people from the region, but in another area or country I just simplify to London, because nobody cares where Hampstead or hackney are relative to each other in London
I used to identify with my small town but once I went off to University, people didn't know where that was so now I live in "Baltimore" despite being an hour away.
"you know what? i'm not gonna look at brazil's one, just to offend any brazilians watching" me, a brazilian watching, offended: 🗿 (just kidding, i love this channel)
The City Museum in St. Louis is absolutely insane. There’s 100s of ft of canvas is crawl around in and displays of original Art Deco designs of trim work of original buildings. Such an interesting place
LOL at you zooming in on Poughkeepsie, I'm actually moving 10 minutes south of there to the Town of Wappinger. And there's a railroad to get to NYC. Poughkeepsie is the northern limit of commuter rail but there are commuters from points further north on the intercity trains, a guy in my office used to come in from Hudson NY on Amtrak which is basically nowhere. Consider me self-doxxed.
I live in a small town with not a very near city, but instead of saying the town I just say the small region (a strand of islands, mountain ridges, rivers, or peninsulas for example)
This reality really makes me think that living out of the cities is the dream... but instead all my life the narrative has been "move to the city, that's th dream".
I’m from Hemel Hempstead originally, but I moved to the Welsh boarder when I was 13, and nobody knows where it is, and it was just easier to tell people London
"City" is a relative term. I live in Atlantic Canada where provincial capitals are sometimes under 100,000 people. In many countries, 100,000 people is considered a village. What amazes me is the fact that you can have compact metropolitan areas where the population equals or exceeds that of entire nations. There are a number of metropolitan areas that have more people than the entire population of Canada or Australia. Such places are absolutely incomprehensible to me as a Canadian.
19:32 bro i cant believe he zoomed in on the city museum i loved that place as a kid its basically a McDonald’s playplace that takes up an entire building
I live in a village of 400 people in the countryside of Finland, 35km away from the nearest town, which has a population of about 70 000 people. I have to go to school and work there, so I drive 70km a day. But I have to tell most people that I live in the town, because they wouldn't know where my village is. Or then I just have to show it on a map. Are there many people here living in even more isolated places?
I live in the middle of nowhere so whenever someone isn’t from around I live, I just tell them I live a half hour from Flint or an hour from Detroit. Alternatively, since Michigan is shaped like a mitten, I just point to the center of my thumb and say I live there
Yeah I live in a decently sized city, with about 115k people, and I'm a good 15 miles away from Boston, but everyone still feels the pull and reliance on Boston, whether it be for specialist Healthcare or just for work.
I don't feel a gravity, I think to be honest, since I often never conciously cared, and I've only lived in big cities, or huge cities everyone in my country would probably know about.
Where I grew up, there was a town about 80 miles away where all of the rich californians kept their winter vacation homes. A large percentage of the jobs were actually in that town, and people would commute 4 hours a day to work there. We would never consider ourselves part of that area though. Most of us shopped 100 miles away in another direction, and we don't consider ourselves part of that either. there were about 6 towns all within 30 miles of each other in that area, and all of them stayed fairly distinct, despite sharing two high schools, 2 junior high schools, and 3 elementary schools between them. Two of them kind of felt like they merged together in most people's minds, but they're the most distant from the others, close to each other, and both about 10% population of the other towns. Where I am now two of the towns, despite not being in city limits, are basically considered part of the city, while 4 others are largely distinct from it and have their own shopping areas, etc. I guess the difference is that two of the towns that aren't considered part of it are far away, ~30 miles, while two are within 15 miles, but have strong city governments of their own, while the two that are basically part of the larger city are mostly unincorporated and barely have any government of their own. A third area that was formerly unincorporated ended up getting gobbled up by the city years ago. This isn't a large city, only about 50k people. There's several percentage point sales tax difference between the unincorporated area and the city though, so some businesses moved out there instead.
I sometimes say I live in the tiny unincorporated community I live on the edge of (though I've barely met anyone else who lives there). I commonly say I live in the couple-thousand-person town I went to school in (because I'm in the school district). I sometimes mention the few-myriad-person county seat that's not much further and often mention the nearest major world city (about an hour away by car), but I basically never tell anyone other than software that I'm actually FROM those cities.
Jokes on you toycat, I vehemently defend the small town feel, and literally can't live in a city. Last time I was in Boston I almost threw up after an hour and a half of hating my time there, and its not even that big of a city lol. No shame to those who do like cities of course, but they certainly aren't for me
As usual with datas on city size. The Urban areas vs metro problem is there. For exemple the first map takes into account Paris urban area (and shows the Rurh.) While the second shows Berlin urban area (and Paris and the Rurh just disappeared, even though both urban areas are larger than Berlin's urban area.) The metro area/agglomeration is super inconsistent.
it's the biggest problem with data on the matter, imo people who live in an urban area see the "metro area" as being a scam, and people who live in a metro area see the "urban area" as a scam
I live in Buenos Aires City (the actual city, within the official city limits) and we are basically an other province/state, with our own governor, senators, etc. And some of our neighborhoods actually used to be completely separated cities, and bc of expansion they now are merely neighborhoods. All the metro area of the city are different small and big cities, but everything’s connected to everything and you can barely differentiate among cities. And i can confirm everyone wants to live within the official city limits bc you are closer to everything, is more secure, clean, etc. Except for wealthier people who move to gated communities, with artificial lakes, parks and big yards in the metro.
So I live in Providence, I think it's big enough that it's not suburbs and no I wouldn't say I'm from Boston, but a lot of people form Lincoln, or Pawtucket, or Cranston will say they're from Providence
I think the effect is driven by the fact that most of the best services/work/attractions are found in cities, because that's where the highest density of those things are. BUUUUUT lots of people want to live in a "smaller town" because the property is often nicer and houses are less cramped. Basically as more people move CLOSE to a city, that city effectively expands as the areas surrounding it become more populated. As those areas become more populated it presents a new market for business owners to set up shop there urbanizing it further. Now that "small town" is too urban so people move just outside it and the cycle continues.
So even with small towns people do this. If you technically live in a town of 10,000 ,but the biggest town for say an hour drive is 20,000 it is easier to just say you live in the bigger place. I think the main reason we do this is that whoever we are talking to will most likely not know the place we are actually from, but will more likely know the bigger spot. I live in the state Oregon on the west coast of the US. People in America typically know where that is, but when I visited Europe I felt like I needed to say like Seattle or near California even though I lived like 7 hours away from both lol
I live absolutely nowhere near Toronto, but anytime someone who isn’t from Ontario asks me where I’m from I just say Toronto. Anytime I’ve said the name of the small town I’m actually from people just get confused anyway lol
I've have heard of the opposite sometimes due to rivalries. People despite living close to a city will swear up and down there town is not a part of it, despite it being basically in the metro area of the city.
I live in a small town near Utrecht, in the province of Utrecht. I always tell people I live in Utrecht because that is technically true, and because I do have a connection to that city, in a way
I just feel rebellious against cities in general. I don't really want to live a city, but a city is the place where I have highest chance of becoming rich.
yeah i live in a small villige on the edge of Klaipeda and my whole life revolves around that not so big city. and everyone around me is depended on it, for school, jobs, more products in stores etc. realy true how cities pull outside communities closer and even small cities do that
I think were going to see a lot of cities decline in the next decade, i lost my job this pandemic so i took up online work, im planning to move from the huge city of Leeds to the remote seaside town of Whitby :)
I’m not far from the North Circular, so when I describe where I’m from I say I’m from “near London” if I know how to in the language, or I’m just from London if I don’t know how to say “near to”.
I'm a town ranger(it's a weird role) for newmarket and I can safely say the people have a distinct sense being from newmarket and would not consider themselves anything todo with Cambridge
I'm from Sweden, and now that I think about it, when someone outside of Scandinavia asks which city in Sweden I'm from, I say the name and that go like "iẗ́'s x hours by car south of Stockholm". Internally we almost never identify with Stockholm; in fact, we don't really like the inhabitants of the capital that much.
To answer your question, I live in Paris's suburban area and if I meet anyone from outside of Paris's urban area I tell them I'm from Paris, everyone in the city works in Paris anyway, and commuting anywhere requires you to pass through Paris. (Parisian themselves hates that though. They're elitists among elitists.)
At least in the united States, I think there is a certain level of rural where you can't fully align yourself with the nearest major city. I live about 300 miles away from one of those top 100 cities and when we traveled to Europe my mom insisted on telling people we were from that city even though it has a Very different energy and if we told a European "oh actually it's a 5 hour drive away..." they'd be confused as to why we'd say we're anywhere near it. I just say I'm from the northern part of my state and I'm usually happy to elaborate if someone mentions that city because I think my rural county is neat and has qualities worth talking about instead of the city I go to for concerts sometimes
I live in Worthing, biggish town on South coast England. If I talk to someone not from the south I just say I live near Brighton which is about 15 or so miles away.
It has to be metro area, because of reasons there isn't any city in Southern Florida that has more than a million people within city limits. "Miami" is really a group of about half a dozen cities with about a million people each plus highly populated suburbs.
I live in Buenos Aires metro area, and your pronunciation and you naming a Coto (supermarket chain) make me laugh hahahaha. PS: I live in the south of B.A. metro, in Banfield.
I live in southern california suburb. To make it easier on people not familiar with California, I do say I live in LA (because we all know that socal is just one giant megacity).
I'm also from Southern California (Riverside), but I don't say that I'm from LA. Outside of using LAX ~1 year ago, it had been at least 7 years since I actually went into LA's city boundaries. For me, if someone asks where I'm from, I say just generally Southern California/ Inland Southern California.
'hearing British city / county names as someone from mainland Europe be like: "Kingstone? Isn't that a USB? Webley? Isn't that a tennis competition?" xD
I live absolutely in the middle of one of the top 20 cities and i don't like it here. Too much pollution and people. It's very cheap here though compared to other cities of similar size.
I guess it's hard for a British TH-camr to come up with a thing he's blocked from The Americans all have BBC programs to say they watch, poor British people, they're hardly restricted
@@jd43 oh, also, H2O isn't terrible, it's much like the more popular Australian drama series (Neighbours, Home and Away, Blue Heelers), but aimed at kids
So I've lived in downtown Manhattan for 7 years and I lived in Clerkenwell in London for 1 year. It's creepy that you zoomed in on my neighborhoods at 18:50 and 22:09. LOL. That being said, I have moved out to Williamsburg in Brooklyn precisely for the reason you stated--a much bigger apartment. Having all this space is VERY nice, especially in comparison to my cramped little apartment in lower Manhattan. :)
TFW Toycat assumes that the green blob at 5:25 is Baltimore because nobody knows that your city exists :'( "Enfield? That's London. Romford? That's London. Philadelphia? That's Baltimore" lol And Toycat: "Small town feel" essentially means that wherever you go in the city, you'll know a couple people there and maybe even run into them. I've been to Alabama and South Carolina and met people who apparently know my mom or dad because they grew up in Northeast Philly. It makes a city feel friendly and comfortable for a resident. A city like LA or NYC lack that feel because they draw in so many out-of-towners while a city like Philadelphia (ha!) actually retains that despite being very large because so many of our residents are born and raised. And to answer your question at the end, I actually live within the city limits, but I can tell you most of our suburbs say they're "from Philly"
I live in a town near a large city and I tell people I live near the city (San Jose) because there's no way anyone not from the area would know what town I live in so the city is kind of a landmark for 'there-ish' and if I'm talking to someone from another country I'd just say I live in California.
As someone who lives in the “Chicago land area” (yes we do use that) when someone asks where we live if they live in Illinois we say suburb of Chicago but if they live out of state we say Chicago
I live about an hour and a half out of Toronto and I have never told anyone I live in Toronto but I have had to tell people that I live near Toronto if they do not understand Canadian cities.
I'm sorry but what, the second channel is making money? Well done!
True
That surfshark sponsorship contained possibly the most bizarre confession I've ever heard.
Now I have to go and watch it
@@Yuio_Quaz Its very strange.
I never even knew that H20 was an Aussie show
My sister used to watch that when she was 7 lmao
@@orionl7406 you just thought they had funny accents?
the second channel is rolling in the big bucks now!
I didn’t even know he had a main channel
SurfShark ...
2nd channel, do care?!?
@@apeachonahill8059 his main is ibxtoycat it's a minecraft channel where he occasionally mentions theatrical physics
@@apeachonahill8059 ibxtoycat. It’s a Minecraft channel where he builds crazy creations and talks about random stuff
@@apeachonahill8059 He also always says “2nd channel, don’t care”
This is my favorite sponsorship I’ve ever seen or heard. Great job toycat! I vaguely remember watching h2o with my sibling when I was younger and it was decent.
you should have a look at Jay Foremans sponsorship segments. best on the platform
@@CTcuber4K lol I was going to to say that
I used to watch H2O I loved that show! I dont know how we got it, Im pretty sure Australia is nearly completley antipotle to where I live. Actually just looked it up , the antipote to me is just west of perth slightly in the Pacific Ocean.
As someone who lives in a very populated city, I find it bizarre that more people live in the same city as I do as scores of countries. Population density is weird.
New York City still messes with me.
Scotland has a population around 5.5 million, the whole country.
New York City, *one city*, has 8.5 million.
Astounding.
Mexico city has more people than Australia... that is a whole continent... I live in a big city on Mexico that has around 6 million people if you count the city that is 20 miles away. This is around 20% of northern Mexico population...
@@Pusher97 all of new zealand has 5 million people with an area of 268000 square km, new delhi has an area of 42.7square km and a population of 21 million
@@manaspradhan8041 This makes my nose bleed
Don’t worry guys us Australia actually has 5 million more people
i am not sure which fan fiction ibxmermaidcat is from originally but cant say im complaining
14:08 as a brazilian: dammit
I live in a town about 10 miles away from the nearest city, but if I'm meeting other people, I'll say I'm from the city as they wouldn't have heard of the town
I live in my country's capital city, and have to describe its location relative to Sydney when talking to foreigners
@@AdamMansbridge And then 99 times out of 100 they act shocked because they thought Sydney was the capital
Similar situation here. If the person doesn’t have any sense of SoCal geography, then I say I’m from LA. If they kinda know LA, then I say I’m about hour outside of LA. If the actually know the greater LA area, then I say the actual town.
@@AdamMansbridge 🇳🇿
@@JKTCGMV13 You're not from Arcadia?
Toycat: Mentions how Middlesex county disappeared
People from Massachusetts: We carry on the memory
Exactly what I thought. I was born in Middlesex County.
Middlesex Country is also in London Ontario
Toycat using his VPN to watch H20, a staple of my Australian childhood, is just gorgeous.
Please do facts of Luton 😂
1: it's a shithole
2: it has 3 train stations
3: the end
@@explorernate Dont forget the london airport 🙄🙄
@@klaejomind That was included in point 1.
Alt title: Toycat repeats himself for 20 min while looking at various cities xD
i live an hour from boston, and if my family is traveling/vacationing and people ask where we are from we just say boston. Its just easier than trying to explain where in the state we live. (usually people already figure that from our "accent" or maybe word choices).
same, like i'm closer to multiple other cities but boston is super identifiable as a place apparently
Yeah, someone I know lived in Southern New Hampshire, but when he got a job as a basketball player in another country, he just said he was from Boston instead of saying the name of the small town he grew up in.
Same. I live much closer to Providence, but it's confusing since it's in another state. So I might just say Massachusetts and leave it at that unless they want to know more.
@@madisonm1310 New England NFL-Patriots are closer to Providence than to Boston?
Rather than the city-limits, the metro-area is about which city's tv stations I see. .. and what sports-team is 'my home-team'.
Being a Brazilian on the internet is just being randomly insulted out of nowhere hahaha
Zika who?
@@deanjordan6053 Exactly.
Ganamos la copa
br? huehuehehuhehuehuehue
Did not expect Manila to get a shout out lol, but yeah I also say im from there when i go abroad, even though i just live in its suburbs
You can watch H2O from Europe without a VPN.
Don't ask me how I know.
digital piracy isn't a victimless crime smh
@@colatf2 nope, it was on french television for a while.
No idea why.
@@colatf2 I'll do it anyway
You can watch all of them for free on TH-cam 👀
🧐
What you saw as the City of Buenos Aires functions as an Autonomous City, meaning they have seats in the Congress, and 3 seats in the Senate as all the other 23 provinces; everything around it (Villa Martelli, Florida, etc) are part of the Province of Buenos Aires. The City has a population of 2.9 million, making it the 4th most populated "province". The Province itself has 15.6 million, but most of them live around the City; the county of La Matanza (yeah, "The Killing"), which has a border with the City, has a population of 1.7 million. It's the only county in the Province with more than a million people.
To answer your question at the end ... I live about 30 minute drive away from the major city near me, if I'm discussing from someone far away from the region, I'll say I live in that city. If it's someone really close, I'll get specific as to what town I'm from that's 30 minutes away
I live in a small suburb of Chicago: Milwaukee.
I love my nearest big city and plan on going to college there, but I consider it a separate place to where I live. I live in the country, and I identify more with the village down the hill than with the city.
im living in the province of buenos aires, when somebody from the city asks where i live i tell them im from ituzaingó, but with people from other places its easier to say im from buenos aires
Yo soy de Adrogué y si alguien me pregunta le digo en una ciudad chica del Área Metropolitana de BsAs
Aguante zona sur wacho
Thank you for letting me to kidnap you
@@luisfelipehv2655 there are more than 200.000 people in my city, good luck
11:13 What kind of kebab do they make. Is it a dragonic kebab, capable of giving the otherwordly power to not sleep in the middle of class, and acheive 10 out of 10s at the yugioh championship taking place beside the dumpster. Do you gain the ability to magically summon seals to cuddle with, who turn into temporal deities when you don't give them enough pets. We need a conclusion to the epic what power does the 'Best Kebab' bestow.
16:08 I just imagined Paris being like" Ohh that is quite a nice baguette you've mind if I take a bite." and being in the sewers like 'It' from the movie 'It'. Kind of creepy, And now I'm imaging Instanbul? Costantinople? Y'know what Byzantium being a h0t anime girl, saying "please capture me Crusader-senpa1". Why is mind like this.
what?
@@Aprill264 yes
@@ipadair7345 aight I'm putting this on r/iamveryrandom, feel free to r/ihavereddit me
Wtf
I find it funny when you zoomed in where I live and say it's sad and empty because it is 17:44 rust belt gang.
Don't live there anymore
Used to live in Rockford and St. Louis. Love to hear you make fun of Imo’s
I’ve personally been to the imos he mentioned. I personally didn’t like it
I remember when I told someone something like, oh yeah, you're from Dallas, and he was like, no, I'm from Mesquite, and I was like, yeah, Dallas. My rural brain was so focused on the country vs small town vs big city difference that I had forgotten that city people distinguish between cities and their contiguous suburbs.
I think the rule I use is I'll distinguish where I live in my city (London) to other people from the region, but in another area or country I just simplify to London, because nobody cares where Hampstead or hackney are relative to each other in London
I used to identify with my small town but once I went off to University, people didn't know where that was so now I live in "Baltimore" despite being an hour away.
"you know what? i'm not gonna look at brazil's one, just to offend any brazilians watching"
me, a brazilian watching, offended: 🗿
(just kidding, i love this channel)
Foi sacanagem dele fazer isso
ele nunca fala do Brasil, me da um raiva
5:33 "Quite far away from Baltimore"
Brace for angry Philadelphians
I live in one of the suburbs of Ottawa that was annexed into Ottawa in 2001
The City Museum in St. Louis is absolutely insane. There’s 100s of ft of canvas is crawl around in and displays of original Art Deco designs of trim work of original buildings. Such an interesting place
Poughkeepsie has 33,000 people, small for the Greater New York area, but not small for the US.
Note: Poughkeepsie is a very nice city
Fun Fact: If every human on Earth stood on the Isle Of Wight, each person would have a half square foot of space.
By space you mean land area?
@@dr.winner2516 Yes
LOL at you zooming in on Poughkeepsie, I'm actually moving 10 minutes south of there to the Town of Wappinger. And there's a railroad to get to NYC. Poughkeepsie is the northern limit of commuter rail but there are commuters from points further north on the intercity trains, a guy in my office used to come in from Hudson NY on Amtrak which is basically nowhere. Consider me self-doxxed.
I live in a small town with not a very near city, but instead of saying the town I just say the small region (a strand of islands, mountain ridges, rivers, or peninsulas for example)
Going around Dartford it doesn't seem like they want to be a part of London but they do want the London wage.
The only thing I know about Dartford is Dartford bridge which is fucking abysmal.
@@fierceeagle3458 Should forever be a London boundary.
This reality really makes me think that living out of the cities is the dream... but instead all my life the narrative has been "move to the city, that's th dream".
I’m from Hemel Hempstead originally, but I moved to the Welsh boarder when I was 13, and nobody knows where it is, and it was just easier to tell people London
"City" is a relative term. I live in Atlantic Canada where provincial capitals are sometimes under 100,000 people. In many countries, 100,000 people is considered a village. What amazes me is the fact that you can have compact metropolitan areas where the population equals or exceeds that of entire nations. There are a number of metropolitan areas that have more people than the entire population of Canada or Australia. Such places are absolutely incomprehensible to me as a Canadian.
I live in Beijing and there's one apartment complex with 700,000 people living in it
19:32 bro i cant believe he zoomed in on the city museum i loved that place as a kid its basically a McDonald’s playplace that takes up an entire building
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I live in a village of 400 people in the countryside of Finland, 35km away from the nearest town, which has a population of about 70 000 people. I have to go to school and work there, so I drive 70km a day. But I have to tell most people that I live in the town, because they wouldn't know where my village is. Or then I just have to show it on a map. Are there many people here living in even more isolated places?
I live in the middle of nowhere so whenever someone isn’t from around I live, I just tell them I live a half hour from Flint or an hour from Detroit. Alternatively, since Michigan is shaped like a mitten, I just point to the center of my thumb and say I live there
Yeah I live in a decently sized city, with about 115k people, and I'm a good 15 miles away from Boston, but everyone still feels the pull and reliance on Boston, whether it be for specialist Healthcare or just for work.
I don't feel a gravity, I think to be honest, since I often never conciously cared, and I've only lived in big cities, or huge cities everyone in my country would probably know about.
I'm simultaneously pulled towards small/moderate sized cities, and repelled by large cities. They're nice to visit, but I'd never want to live there.
Where I grew up, there was a town about 80 miles away where all of the rich californians kept their winter vacation homes. A large percentage of the jobs were actually in that town, and people would commute 4 hours a day to work there. We would never consider ourselves part of that area though. Most of us shopped 100 miles away in another direction, and we don't consider ourselves part of that either. there were about 6 towns all within 30 miles of each other in that area, and all of them stayed fairly distinct, despite sharing two high schools, 2 junior high schools, and 3 elementary schools between them. Two of them kind of felt like they merged together in most people's minds, but they're the most distant from the others, close to each other, and both about 10% population of the other towns.
Where I am now two of the towns, despite not being in city limits, are basically considered part of the city, while 4 others are largely distinct from it and have their own shopping areas, etc. I guess the difference is that two of the towns that aren't considered part of it are far away, ~30 miles, while two are within 15 miles, but have strong city governments of their own, while the two that are basically part of the larger city are mostly unincorporated and barely have any government of their own. A third area that was formerly unincorporated ended up getting gobbled up by the city years ago. This isn't a large city, only about 50k people. There's several percentage point sales tax difference between the unincorporated area and the city though, so some businesses moved out there instead.
that green square on the US eat is Philadelphia not Baltimore lol.
I sometimes say I live in the tiny unincorporated community I live on the edge of (though I've barely met anyone else who lives there). I commonly say I live in the couple-thousand-person town I went to school in (because I'm in the school district). I sometimes mention the few-myriad-person county seat that's not much further and often mention the nearest major world city (about an hour away by car), but I basically never tell anyone other than software that I'm actually FROM those cities.
Jokes on you toycat, I vehemently defend the small town feel, and literally can't live in a city. Last time I was in Boston I almost threw up after an hour and a half of hating my time there, and its not even that big of a city lol. No shame to those who do like cities of course, but they certainly aren't for me
As usual with datas on city size.
The Urban areas vs metro problem is there.
For exemple the first map takes into account Paris urban area (and shows the Rurh.) While the second shows Berlin urban area (and Paris and the Rurh just disappeared, even though both urban areas are larger than Berlin's urban area.)
The metro area/agglomeration is super inconsistent.
it's the biggest problem with data on the matter, imo people who live in an urban area see the "metro area" as being a scam, and people who live in a metro area see the "urban area" as a scam
I live in Buenos Aires City (the actual city, within the official city limits) and we are basically an other province/state, with our own governor, senators, etc. And some of our neighborhoods actually used to be completely separated cities, and bc of expansion they now are merely neighborhoods. All the metro area of the city are different small and big cities, but everything’s connected to everything and you can barely differentiate among cities. And i can confirm everyone wants to live within the official city limits bc you are closer to everything, is more secure, clean, etc. Except for wealthier people who move to gated communities, with artificial lakes, parks and big yards in the metro.
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What an unexpected and dare I say, funny advertisement.
So I live in Providence, I think it's big enough that it's not suburbs and no I wouldn't say I'm from Boston, but a lot of people form Lincoln, or Pawtucket, or Cranston will say they're from Providence
14:30 i cant believe you've done this toycat i tought you were a good person that would protect me from house fires
24:00 i say i live in sao paulo so i dont say my real location
This is rapidly becoming one of my favourite youtube channels
:) I like this comment a lot
@@ibx2cat Matty's comment is rapidly becoming one of your favourite comments
I think the effect is driven by the fact that most of the best services/work/attractions are found in cities, because that's where the highest density of those things are. BUUUUUT lots of people want to live in a "smaller town" because the property is often nicer and houses are less cramped. Basically as more people move CLOSE to a city, that city effectively expands as the areas surrounding it become more populated. As those areas become more populated it presents a new market for business owners to set up shop there urbanizing it further. Now that "small town" is too urban so people move just outside it and the cycle continues.
So even with small towns people do this. If you technically live in a town of 10,000 ,but the biggest town for say an hour drive is 20,000 it is easier to just say you live in the bigger place. I think the main reason we do this is that whoever we are talking to will most likely not know the place we are actually from, but will more likely know the bigger spot. I live in the state Oregon on the west coast of the US. People in America typically know where that is, but when I visited Europe I felt like I needed to say like Seattle or near California even though I lived like 7 hours away from both lol
I live absolutely nowhere near Toronto, but anytime someone who isn’t from Ontario asks me where I’m from I just say Toronto. Anytime I’ve said the name of the small town I’m actually from people just get confused anyway lol
Same. I try with London or windsor ontario first, and if they have no clue, I just say Toronto, even though I'm 4 hours from there lol
I've have heard of the opposite sometimes due to rivalries. People despite living close to a city will swear up and down there town is not a part of it, despite it being basically in the metro area of the city.
I live in a small town near Utrecht, in the province of Utrecht. I always tell people I live in Utrecht because that is technically true, and because I do have a connection to that city, in a way
8:04 - not just *London* ,
Westminster, Kensington, Chelsea, and Mayfair too.
I came here not expecting American 2Cat and feel a eerie sense of shock listening to it😂💖🤣
I live near a city in upstate New York, I feel gravity towards the city, but rebellion against New York City
I just feel rebellious against cities in general. I don't really want to live a city, but a city is the place where I have highest chance of becoming rich.
most americans know about albany and buffalo, so it makes sense some new yorkers wont say theyre all from nyc
I live 60 miles north of Miami in West Palm Beach so I guess that's technically considered Miami metro region but I would never say I'm from Miami.
I watched H2O just add water like 10 years ago. Good show
yeah i live in a small villige on the edge of Klaipeda and my whole life revolves around that not so big city. and everyone around me is depended on it, for school, jobs, more products in stores etc. realy true how cities pull outside communities closer and even small cities do that
Burger King Escobar- can’t stop laughing
I think were going to see a lot of cities decline in the next decade, i lost my job this pandemic so i took up online work, im planning to move from the huge city of Leeds to the remote seaside town of Whitby :)
I’m not far from the North Circular, so when I describe where I’m from I say I’m from “near London” if I know how to in the language, or I’m just from London if I don’t know how to say “near to”.
If you go in 3D view, hold control/command and you can tilt the angle of the view with the mouse. It’s my favorite feature on google maps!
Imo's Pizza is a godsend, you take that back.
Small towns are just full of gossipers and nosey people
I really like sticking my nose in other people's business.
it’s funny. i’m moving to one of these cities within the week.
Reminds me of London Luton airport. Located in Luton but conveniently named London airport.
I'm a town ranger(it's a weird role) for newmarket and I can safely say the people have a distinct sense being from newmarket and would not consider themselves anything todo with Cambridge
I'm from Sweden, and now that I think about it, when someone outside of Scandinavia asks which city in Sweden I'm from, I say the name and that go like "iẗ́'s x hours by car south of Stockholm". Internally we almost never identify with Stockholm; in fact, we don't really like the inhabitants of the capital that much.
To answer your question, I live in Paris's suburban area and if I meet anyone from outside of Paris's urban area I tell them I'm from Paris, everyone in the city works in Paris anyway, and commuting anywhere requires you to pass through Paris.
(Parisian themselves hates that though. They're elitists among elitists.)
At least in the united States, I think there is a certain level of rural where you can't fully align yourself with the nearest major city. I live about 300 miles away from one of those top 100 cities and when we traveled to Europe my mom insisted on telling people we were from that city even though it has a Very different energy and if we told a European "oh actually it's a 5 hour drive away..." they'd be confused as to why we'd say we're anywhere near it. I just say I'm from the northern part of my state and I'm usually happy to elaborate if someone mentions that city because I think my rural county is neat and has qualities worth talking about instead of the city I go to for concerts sometimes
The phenomenon you are talking about has a name and that's the theory of a megalopolis.
I live in Worthing, biggish town on South coast England. If I talk to someone not from the south I just say I live near Brighton which is about 15 or so miles away.
It has to be metro area, because of reasons there isn't any city in Southern Florida that has more than a million people within city limits. "Miami" is really a group of about half a dozen cities with about a million people each plus highly populated suburbs.
11:00 I was really expecting a "but" at some point, lol.
My sisters used to watch that H2O show ages ago. I noticed they all had Australian accents, but hadn’t realized that Australia makes tv shows.
At this point, you could consider the entire northeastern seaboard as a metropolitan area. (Boston to DC specifically)
I live in Buenos Aires metro area, and your pronunciation and you naming a Coto (supermarket chain) make me laugh hahahaha.
PS: I live in the south of B.A. metro, in Banfield.
I live in Australia and It's the 1st April 2021 here, so April Fools!!!! :)
I live in southern california suburb. To make it easier on people not familiar with California, I do say I live in LA (because we all know that socal is just one giant megacity).
I'm also from Southern California (Riverside), but I don't say that I'm from LA. Outside of using LAX ~1 year ago, it had been at least 7 years since I actually went into LA's city boundaries. For me, if someone asks where I'm from, I say just generally Southern California/ Inland Southern California.
@@kyleperez4959 LAX is usually the only reason someone can make me go into LA.
'hearing British city / county names as someone from mainland Europe be like: "Kingstone? Isn't that a USB? Webley? Isn't that a tennis competition?" xD
The city museum is actually really fun
I live in ankeny, iowa, and we feel a pull torwards des moines, but ankeny is growing so much, its starting to just flat out be, better des moines.
I live absolutely in the middle of one of the top 20 cities and i don't like it here. Too much pollution and people. It's very cheap here though compared to other cities of similar size.
when your favorite youtuber watches a mermaid show
I guess it's hard for a British TH-camr to come up with a thing he's blocked from
The Americans all have BBC programs to say they watch, poor British people, they're hardly restricted
@@AdamMansbridge youre probably right, but i dont take it that seriously
@@jd43 oh, also, H2O isn't terrible, it's much like the more popular Australian drama series (Neighbours, Home and Away, Blue Heelers), but aimed at kids
“200 miles...it is a huge distance between those places”
me: that’s close 🤨
Yeah it shows he's European and not American lol
So I've lived in downtown Manhattan for 7 years and I lived in Clerkenwell in London for 1 year. It's creepy that you zoomed in on my neighborhoods at 18:50 and 22:09. LOL. That being said, I have moved out to Williamsburg in Brooklyn precisely for the reason you stated--a much bigger apartment. Having all this space is VERY nice, especially in comparison to my cramped little apartment in lower Manhattan. :)
TFW Toycat assumes that the green blob at 5:25 is Baltimore because nobody knows that your city exists :'(
"Enfield? That's London. Romford? That's London. Philadelphia? That's Baltimore" lol
And Toycat: "Small town feel" essentially means that wherever you go in the city, you'll know a couple people there and maybe even run into them. I've been to Alabama and South Carolina and met people who apparently know my mom or dad because they grew up in Northeast Philly. It makes a city feel friendly and comfortable for a resident. A city like LA or NYC lack that feel because they draw in so many out-of-towners while a city like Philadelphia (ha!) actually retains that despite being very large because so many of our residents are born and raised.
And to answer your question at the end, I actually live within the city limits, but I can tell you most of our suburbs say they're "from Philly"
As a Brazilian, I did feel offended, nicely done
I live in a town near a large city and I tell people I live near the city (San Jose) because there's no way anyone not from the area would know what town I live in so the city is kind of a landmark for 'there-ish' and if I'm talking to someone from another country I'd just say I live in California.
As someone who lives in the “Chicago land area” (yes we do use that) when someone asks where we live if they live in Illinois we say suburb of Chicago but if they live out of state we say Chicago
ToyCat can be a sub teacher in geography
I live about an hour and a half out of Toronto and I have never told anyone I live in Toronto but I have had to tell people that I live near Toronto if they do not understand Canadian cities.
Hamilton or Oshawa?
@@jonathanbowers8964 Guelph