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Welcome to the Netherlands then. Most people ride trains between the cities. It does help, however, that most of the population lives in cities that are 30-40 minutes away on a train.

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The Netherlands is approximately the same land area and population density as the NYC metropolitan area[1], so it is (as you say) a very different environment from the entire US or even Spain.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/NY...

That's a bit of an exaggeration. Here are the areas overlaid: https://imgur.com/a/s9pq7

It's more like the area from New York to Boston

Well, since smitherfield used the CSA (combined statistical area) it's actually rather close. 34,493 km^2 for the New York CSA, while Netherlands is 41,543 km^2. So about 83% of the size of the Netherlands.

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