Recent comments in /f/vermont

DaddyBobMN t1_jbtjpcf wrote

Sure, the Seattle city population of 733k seems comparable since it's just a little more than all of Vermont, but the population of the Seattle metropolitan area is over 4 million.

For comparison there, that's half a million more people than the entire states Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine combined.

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_jbtejdp wrote

From the article:

> Vermont has 11.3% Subaru ownership (the highest of any state in the country), among a population of 645,570, which means 72,949 total Subarus in the state.

> Washington state has just 3.8% Subaru ownership, but with a population of 7.739 million, that's still a total of 294,082.

> So Washington wins by the numbers game, but Vermont wins by percentage.

> Except.... What about Seattle?

> Subaru ownership in Seattle is a whopping 10.1%. With a population of 733,919 - that's a total of 74,125 Subarus in the city.

> Okay, so Seattle and Vermont are practically completely tied, by percentage ownership and by numbers. Everyone wins.

> Except... Seattle just feels like there are more, of course!

> Seattle covers a land area of 83.78 square miles, which is 884 Subarus per square mile. Vermont covers a land area of 9,623 square miles, which is just 7.5 Subarus per square mile.

> So if you see a car in Seattle or in Vermont, it's about equally likely to be a Subaru. But if you're in Seattle, you'll see vastly more Subarus - just because you see vastly more cars, overall. We win by a long shot on Subaru density.

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ClarissaDarjeeling t1_jbtb878 wrote

Ok, but it's getting to the point where I might have to read 3 tiers of signage before knowing where to pee. I'm all for keeping things to a simple graphic or 1-2 words...I imagine that's also easier for folks who don't speak English as their first language. (And drunks.)

The last show I went to had the typical restroom icons indicating M/W/handicap accessibility. Then on top of that they had those cheeky signs for "what to do if you think someone is using the wrong restroom...step 1: acknowledge they have a better understanding of their own gender identity than you do, step 2: mind your own business", then on top of THAT the band playing had strong feelings about gender neutral restrooms, so they had more signs explaining that the M/F icons were temporarily irrelevant. So I'm standing there reading all this, doing my little potty dance, in order to understand why a gaggle of giggling teenage girls is flitting from one restroom to the next.

Who knew bodily functions could require so much direction??

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