Quote History Quoted:
We're looking from so far away that they look close together much like someone from Andromeda looking at our galaxy would see us as a giant blob of light
View Quote
No they wouldn't.
Our galaxy is about half as massive and half a large as theirs, so ours would be somewhat less impressive.
Oddly enough (science is strange) ours is just as far from theirs as theirs is from ours.
ETA: OOPS! I see that the latest measurements say that they are about the same size.
A new technique involving the measure of escape velocity gives roughly equal masses for the two galaxies.
ETA #2: They look so "close together" because we are looking through the entire depth of their galactic disc. A galactic disc is many light years thick and is not a single layer of stars.
Their stars are not, on average, any closer to each other than ours are.