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Originally Posted by craigs
San Francisco is nowhere near as distant from other metropolitan areas of a million or more residents as is Santiago.
According to Google Maps. right now by car San Francisco is a 2 hour drive to Sacramento and a 3.5 hour drive to Fresno. San Francisco to Los Angeles is a 6.25 hour drive. SF to San Diego is 8.33 hours. SF to Las Vegas is 9.33 hours. SF to Portland is 10.75 hours. SF to Salt Lake City is 11.75 hours, and to Phoenix it's 12.33 hours.
While obviously not all these places are global hotspots, they are all metros of a million or more and can be reached from San Francisco more quickly than the closest such metro to Santiago can be--Santiago to Cordoba, Argentina is a 13.5 hour drive. Santiago to Rosario, Argentina is 15.5 hours. Santiago to Buenos Aires is 17.5 hours.
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Mendoza, Argentina, is a +1M metro that is roughly a 5 - 6 hour drive from Santiago.
Bottom line is that Santiago is not "isolated" but it's also not as close to the South American megacities as was stated. The nearest megacity to Santiago is Buenos Aires, which are as far from each other as New York and Chicago.