Why is there a big ring of 50+ people per km/sq all around Canada?
It's an old tradition that they don't like discussing with outsiders.
It's okay, I'm actually Canadian, please tell me.
(even if you suspect that I'm lying, it would be impolite to accuse me of that)
Sorry
As is tradition.
That's the Night's Watch.
Untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean
You ever heard of soudi arabias "the line"? Turns out they stole it from canada
I live inside that ring. Bought a 5 bedroom house for around $100k 3ish years ago. Been putting some work into it, hoping to sell in a couple years to move even deeper into the ring.
The biggest problem is employment. I got lucky and landed a great job that pays well. The second problem is cost of food as it highly depends on location. If I drive an hour south or east, I can reduce my food costs by around 30%. Not everyone has that ability because of the bigger problem. Gas price is the 3rd biggest problem, we're on average 20-30C more per liter than outside the ring.
Then there's the actual places. So many have very poorly run municipal governments that are full of the dumbest motherfuckers around who sink entire budgets into poorly thought out capital projects and raise taxes for decades after. Poor tax enforcement so that there are many properties with years in outstanding tax debt that doesn't get collected, which leads to even larger budget shortfalls and more tax increases. Every now and then I'll see a tax sale listed for $20k+ because the owner died and no remaining family could afford to claim the property because it the outstanding tax debt.
This is why I want to move into the bush where I have no neighbours, because at least the miniscule tax burden is less of a slap in the face when I look outside and see nothing coming back from it.
90% of the poutine is within 50 miles of the US border. What would they survive on up there?
It really so they can strike the US at any moment.
Are you saying that Canadian forces are massing near the border?
The Catholic ones yes
Maple syrup?
Comes from southern Quebec
Polar bears, obviously.
The worst part is that there really is a lot of habitable land but it would require employers to make a big push for remote jobs (wink wink federal and provincial governments)
Sure winter is colder up north but even 50km North of the major city centers the land is empty...
Or the government could just build trains out to there.
I saw a picture of a train station in China that had been built in the middle of nowhere. Stairs from the subway leading up onto a grassy field. The Americans all laughed at China for it. Then I saw a picture of that same train station five years later. It was in the middle of a metropolis. China has so much housing that there are entire cities sitting empty. Now, if a country with two billion people can manage that, Canada has no excuse.
Once global warming is finished, you just wait.
Canada's going to be laughing at the rest of the world in their tropical paradise. All those beaches.
This is how we get right-wing patriots to care about global warming. 'not only will Canada still be bigger than us, they'll have better resorts'
With the way climate change is going, we may soon have access to the virgin lands up north. RIP, but also yay, but also RIP...
https://cdn.britannica.com/98/180898-050-234CB039/Map-extent-Canadian-Shield-North-America-mass.jpg
This big ass rock is in the way. Makes digging deep a big issue
Yeah this is pretty well known. It's been ascertained that, assuming we don't go extinct or collapse back into the 1800s, Canada and Russia (especially Siberia) are poised to become demographic and economic monsters in the next couple of centuries.
Eh, neither muskeg or bedrock turn into arable land just because the winters become milder.
Super marshy soils and growing seasons that are insanely short combined with -45C winters.
Edmonton (that moderate city on the western side, just past the rockies) gets to -50°C in the dead of winter for about two weeks.
Some years we get snow for 5-6 months (global warming is fixing that) .
You move more north if you want to. Im fucking good
Edmonton is the farthest north you can go in the western hemisphere while still having over 1 million people, and yet we still have people that complain about the winters ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Also we hit +40C/104F last month so that was fun.
Pfft, what housing crisis?
Look at all that fertile land, the Aussies are so silly
It’s literally greener than the rest of the map, stupid fucking upside downers
The scribbled out Tasmania is pretty funny.
I miss r/MapsWithoutTasmania! Thanks for appreciating the bit 😂
This is the land of cobra chickens.
We deeply respect the limits they impose on us.
Let's be honest, what is Canada doing with all that land though?
In my experience, using it as a dumping ground for anti-social alcoholics
Why would you say that about Edmonton?
Resource extraction. Lots of mining, oil further west, logging everywhere south of the arctic circle
It's full of bugs and terrible soil, also looks bigger than it is due to map distortions
big toast!!
They all want to live in Torranto.
And vanchoover
It's wild to me how empty Canada is
the us is kind of like this too
Sure, but the year-round livable areas in Canada aren't in that red area.
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