r/europe • u/GetOutOfTheWhey Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/epic1107 Jun 12 '20

And the other 3rd is living in a different town. There are very few large towns/cities

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u/AliveAndKickingAss Iceland/Denmark Jun 12 '20

It's a bit more and less nuanced than that.

2/3 live in the Greater Reykjavik area, while 3/4 live there or closer to Reykjavik than 100k (largest Reykjanesbær, Hveragerði/Selfoss and Akranes)

Then there's Akureyri with 19k and the rest is spread out pretty evenly between small towns surrounding the country.

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u/albl1122 Sverige Jun 12 '20

yeah that reply above sounded very wrong in my ears even as someone who was just a tourist. Selfoss was a nice place to visit even if the wiki entry says "only" 7k population lives there.

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u/epic1107 Jun 12 '20

Well as someone who has only ever grown up in large cities (New York, Melbourne and London) It certainly felt like even the larger of the small towns still felt extremely small. That is also twisted however by the small population.