Re:‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock t...
by kragen on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:59AM
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Oh, and I missed the editing window on this, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_prefecture-lev... claims that in 02017 Wuxi had a per-capita GDP of US$23802 per year, making it the sixth richest city in China; I guess that would be US$70k per year per family of three. This seems to have been computed on a population of 6.5 million, thus including the whole prefecture (basically the suburbs). So I don't think it's that Wuxi is poor, either, though maybe it was when the guy moved there—certainly poorer than London, though.
A correction: Kazakhstan has 18.9 million people, which is a lot more than Wuxi, though less than Shanghai. Not sure how I made that error. However, Mongolia, the country, really does have only 3.4 million people.
A quasi-correction: though Dallas is only about 1.1 million people, the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area is 7.5 million people, which is bigger than the Wuxi prefecture (though not the Wuxi–Suzhou metropolis, which adds 10.5 million to the 6.5 million in the Wuxi prefecture, even without adding in Shanghai too). Similarly, the Chicago–Naperville–Elgin area is 9.5 million people, and the Houston metro is 7 million. These, plus LA and NYC, are the only metros in the US more populous than Wuxi prefecture.
A correction: Kazakhstan has 18.9 million people, which is a lot more than Wuxi, though less than Shanghai. Not sure how I made that error. However, Mongolia, the country, really does have only 3.4 million people.
A quasi-correction: though Dallas is only about 1.1 million people, the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area is 7.5 million people, which is bigger than the Wuxi prefecture (though not the Wuxi–Suzhou metropolis, which adds 10.5 million to the 6.5 million in the Wuxi prefecture, even without adding in Shanghai too). Similarly, the Chicago–Naperville–Elgin area is 9.5 million people, and the Houston metro is 7 million. These, plus LA and NYC, are the only metros in the US more populous than Wuxi prefecture.