Yes and… there is generally a lack of classic city drivers, primarily a major, deep river, in that whole region. It’s faster and cheaper there to transport over land than water. The main economic driver is oil, so fuel is plentiful.
The outlier for the US is Denver (in this zone) and Phoenix. Both of which are sort of Oasis cities, where people initially settled because the trip to the Pacific was too much and haven’t boomed in population until very recently.
They could've built a dam on the Missouri River similar to the Hoover dam and started a city similar to Las Vegas, or a city near the Black Hills mountains similar to Denver.
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u/zs15 26d ago
Yes and… there is generally a lack of classic city drivers, primarily a major, deep river, in that whole region. It’s faster and cheaper there to transport over land than water. The main economic driver is oil, so fuel is plentiful.
The outlier for the US is Denver (in this zone) and Phoenix. Both of which are sort of Oasis cities, where people initially settled because the trip to the Pacific was too much and haven’t boomed in population until very recently.