I remember when Central Texas was a backwater. I used to tell people I lived in the boonies. 😂 Our idea of a good time was shooting cans. And now everyone works at Tesla and goes to shopping malls. The whole drive to Austin is built up, now.

Niederbayern and the Oberpfalz used to just be potato farmers, miners, and breweries, and now it feels like the center of the world. Absolutely exploded. Gridlock on the streets crawling behind cows and chickens and tractors.

Same with Franken and even Oberbayern. Oberbayern used to be the middle of fucking nowhere and now you pay a million bucks for a collapsing shack.

And Eastern and Western Maryland were solid hillbilly country. Same outside of Columbia, South Carolina. Every place has exploded.