Why is East Coast work culture so competitive in terms of hours worked, connections, position, alma matter, and company name?
And why are the high school students in New England and the Northeast megalopolis so set on getting into colleges with such low acceptance rates?
If they were bigger states (say PA merged with NJ and New England was just 1 state), would the northeastern cities have grown into a megalopolis like they did in our timeline?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
1/6 Americans live here, I wanted to know everybodyβs thoughts on it. I just find it really intresting.
With the successful passage of the Two-State Integration Bill, the cities Northeast Megalopolis have begun the process of creating the new city government. As discussed in the bill, the megacity of Orientalis will have a uniform election/representation system while the remainder of both nations' territory is more gradually integrated.
The Megalopolis makes up more than 70% of both nations' electorate, as well as the overwhelming majority of their economic and political activity. It is the center of both nations, which links them together. The Megalopolis is, predictably, dominated by the Democratic Party in both nations, which is a boost to the liberal administrations in both the US and the AC.
Increasingly sporadic protests continue in smaller cities in the northern AC and the western US, but the fight has been fought and lost in the House of Representatives.
Government accounting, as well as basic governance and legality, is expected to become rather confusing during the five-year period as the hybrid-state becomes more unitary. The citizens of the Megalopolis will see little change in their lives, but major socioeconomic changes are expected in the rural areas. Many sociologists are calling the Two-State Integration Bill the "event horizon" for Rural America, and predict that with the cities leading the nation that rural areas will no longer have a "subsidized inefficiency in lifestyle".
The project has now officially passed the more well-known point of incomplete fiscal union, and is now treading on mostly unknown ground. With the Association of Northeastern Mayors firmly united towards their goal, however, it looks like it will take a miracle of a political juggernaut to stop the momentum.
[m] Finalization.
The United States and the Atlantic Commonwealth have been economically linked since the breakup, with both nations signing currency and trade agreements in the late 2010s and the creation of the East Coast Customs Union in the early 2020s.
We have enjoyed two decades of visa-free travel, the free movement of goods and services, and a common import/export market. This trade organization, while politically powerless, has ensured that the so-called Northeast Megalopolis (the largest and richest continuous urban metropolis in the United States, and possibly the world) remains unaffected by the breakup and continues to grow into a vibrant mass of tens of millions of people working and sharing their prosperity across invisible country borders. The US' Eastern states share much of their heritage and economic realities with the people of the Commonwealth, and for the millions of people who commute from one side of the border to the other every day it's hard to remember that the US and the AC continue to be separate countries.
Economic integrations is a powerful force, but it can only go as far as we allow it to. The EECU's role as a customs union means that the US and the AC are nearly fully economically integrated, save for the last two steps of the process (monetary and fiscal union). After twenty years of shared customs, however, and the current economic boon across the American East Coast, the time is ripe for further economic integration.
US officials have announced that they plan on travelling to Boston to formally propose the creation of a monetary union. The US dollar and the AC dollar have already been traded one-to-one for twenty years, so such a change should not be a radical departure from previous policy. More importantly, the new Democratic administration has expressed a desire to kickstart a true economic integration process, and to aim for fiscal integration in the short-to-medium term. Of course, this would involve a degree of political integration as well, and it remains to be seen whether or not Boston's new Democratic administration considers that a worthwhile exchange.
The cards are on the table for the full reformation of the Northeastern Megalopolis as a unified economic powerhouse, and the re-establishment of the American East Coast as the world's premier financial center.
[m] Basically aiming for a EU-style agreement and a promise for short term economic/political integration. I wasn't sure if the AC was inactive, because the claims
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I'm traveling from northern virginia to upstate NY. I'm very familiar with the roads and routes but I was wondering if there is a very good traffic database or website?
I am making the drive 4th of July weekend so I would like to see if it is best to go the day before, the day of, etc and what times specifically would be the most optimal based on historical patterns. Also, what is the typical way you can check ahead of time for planned construction so I can avoid those routes?
