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My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"

Here in Germany I run an inverse of that for "am I in the wider halo of a larger city or am I in a truly rural environment": when approaching a metropolitan area, the outer urban halo starts where there are still farms, but many of them have switched to housing horses.

What I found striking about Seoul was that there would be three rows of potatoes in between a ten story apartment block and a busy highway. Not a square meter wasted on unproductive grass.

This probably works best in Idaho

In the broadest possible sense, Idaho can be divided into "potato" and "non-potato" Idaho. For instance if you drive US95 through here (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) it's almost entirely wheat farms, and what isn't a wheat farm is either forest, wilderness or cattle ranch. The potato part doesn't really start until you get down into the whole valley/flat land area occupied by Meridian, Boise, Nampa, etc.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grangeville,+ID+83530,+USA...

(the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho)

New York County, New York says hi.

(You may know it as "Manhattan.")

POTATO LAND! POTATO LAND!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtLw83_jE0&t=426s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF3e78j7pw (official African mirror)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Jff85kMeU (official Asian mirror)

(PS: curious how the video resolution gets lower with each channel)

How large does the field have to be? I grow some in my back garden...does that count as zero, then?

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