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Originally Posted by lio45
Same thing for me, which should pretty clearly explain the post above.
In fact I find it puzzling that you would both, at the same time, tend to think of the Rockies as going north-south, yet find it normal at first sight that going due north from Arizona you're ending somewhere other than the BC interior.....?
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Well to be fair it's not an actual logical map in my head, but associations with places. I think for me its partially the character of the mountains, the highly compressed defined ranges in Canada form a gateway to the coast in my mind (being from Alberta). Those ranges get dispersed almost immediately south of the border. So my expectation would be for the rockies to continue along and be more consistent with the Sierra Nevada, which would actually keep Arizona fairly analgous to Sask.
This is also the landscape I would most associate with Arizona so SK doesn't feel like a stretch to me.
There also just the cultural associations and the fact that US has much more of a contiuum, as opposed to Canada being by an area of very sparse population. The idea of Saskatchewan being 'central' and trying to compare it to U.S. midwestern states will never feel right to me. I don't think Canada has anything comparable to the midwest - we have shield instead and that shifts many of my associations.
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