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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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Santiago is within 4:30 flight from 4 megacities (Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Lima).
Within this radius there are Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza (ARGENTINA); Assuncion (PARAGUAY), Montevideo (URUGUAY), Porto Alegre, Florianópolis, Curitiba, Londrina, at least 5 metro areas inside São Paulo macrometropolitan area, Ribeirão Preto, Belo Horizonte, Campo Grande (BRAZIL), Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz (BOLIVIA); Arequipa (PERU). 20 cities aside the 4 aforementioned megacities.
And considering +500,000 urban areas, in Brazil alone you have at least extra 10-12 more cities inside this radius.
Santiago might be located in a difficult geography, but aside Amazon basin and its central heart, South America is not a population desert for no means.