Vivid Maps publishes maps and infographics on geography, demographics, history, and language.
HN commenters use its maps as supporting evidence, such as the latitude comparison of Europe and America, and call it a great site.
> Here are two different takes on how cities subsidize suburbs and rural areas
Rural, perhaps, but not suburbs. Most of those studies play fast-and-loose with the term 'metropolitan area'. Most metros include inner-ring suburbs, outer-ring, and generally the exurbs as well. It's only once you start talking about 1.5-2 hours out from a major city does it become 'rural'.
At least with the metro I'm familiar with (Philly), the surrounding counties (suburbs) vastly subsidize the city itself. The wealthy taxpayers live in those 'burbs and commute in to work. The explosion of remote working, and the commiserate loss of city-wage-tax from those that used to commute, is already straining the system. If remote work continues at this level, many downtown areas could implode.
https://vividmaps.com/map-of-largest-metropolitan-areas/
If the Chinese can “channel 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually”[1] with one of the world's largest mega-projects then I imagine Europe as a continent putting their heads together can figure out how to provide/redirect sufficient water for a bunch of nuclear power stations.
Also, there may be areas prone to drought but there's simultaneously plenty of precipitation[2] across Europe; heck – build nuclear power stations along the West coast of Ireland and send the juice across the interconnectors[3][4] to the UK and France
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Transfer_Project
[2] https://vividmaps.com/precipitation-in-europe/
[3] https://www.soni.ltd.uk/customer-and-industry/interconnection/
[4] https://www.eirgridgroup.com/the-grid/projects/celtic-interconnector/the-project/
Because birth month distribution is highly correlated with climate zone; see the heat-map in [1]. Climate zone, in turn, is highly correlated with race (and probably also immigration status in this case).
Even if we set ethics aside, this is still a terrible idea because credit risk analysis is highly regulated in most cases. There is enormous regulatory risk to using birth month in a credit risk model. Particularly because hen a jury asks "what's an alternative causal model that could explain the bank's incorporate of this data point into their models?" their answer is going to be "absolutely none".
[1] https://vividmaps.com/most-common-birth-months/
Nuclear disasters are not localized. Geographically the radioactive release travels large distances with the wind and causes severe radiation effects hundreds of miles away. Chernobyl was basically a prevented disaster (the worst we have seen but nowhere near a worst-case scenario) and the effects are still costing money to deal with today hundreds of miles from the site.
https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cloud-of-radiation.jpg
But the main problem is that it's not localized in time. Chernobyl is a problem for several countries still to this day, and the actual site itself will continue to be a problem for generations to come.
Ireland would be excluded because GDP estimations for Ireland vastly over-estimate wealth due to many corporations being resident in Ireland for tax purposes.
Otherwise, I have long suspected that using the US/US dollar as a baseline results in some skewing of the data. For example, GDP per capita PPP comparisons would place Mississippi as wealthier than the UK (as mentioned in the OP). However human development indices paint a very different picture, and would place Mississippi on par with Eastern Europe [0].
[0] https://i.imgur.com/yPkHUNt.jpg Source: https://vividmaps.com/human-development-index-us-vs-europe/
> Pollution increases, energy requirements increase
The lowest carbon emissions and least pollution per capita are in city centers. Also the lowest water usage per capita.
> crime per-capita increases
This is not a map of population density, https://vividmaps.com/dangerous-us-counties/
> babies per-capita tend to decrease
I keep hearing people say it's too expensive to have kids. Maybe lower housing prices would help.
> time spent in traffic or commuting increases
Housing closer to jobs makes commutes shorter.
> space per person decreases
You got me. I don't have to pay for more house than I want.