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Congrats, Canada! This has alerted me to the (IMO, pretty surprising) fact that all of Canada holds fewer people than the BosWash corridor.
Only a small portion of Canada is livable (basically along the US border) - so it is quite small in that regard. Also, 50% of them live further south than the US border: http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ca...
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I wonder if global warming could make it into one of the most populous countries in the distant future. Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.
I think our Canadian cabal is doing everything it can to speed up global warming. We have the dirtiest oil in the world (Alberta Oil Sands) and we essentially based our economy on extraction.
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Where's your friend? $1300 cad for a 700sqft pad in Toronto is a steal! I'm unfortunately very serious.
Just learned yesterday that a bachelor in my building is now $1850 (CAD), hydro and water extra. This is not a luxury building.
Fun fact, there are no luxury buildings. There's newer building and older buildings. The term luxury is just slapped onto marketing for new units being sold in new buildings. Why am I being so pedantic? Because people complain that "they only make luxury housing these days, we need affordable housing too!". Guess what, your parents' bungalow in the suburbs was likely marketed as luxury housing 50 years too.
https://marker.medium.com/the-dangerous-myth-of-luxury-housi...
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Still a bit too general. Southwestern Ontario (Windsor/London) is very culturally and demographically different from Toronto/Golden Horseshoe and Eastern Ontario (Ottawa/Kingston) Michigan is also culturally different from New York.
The north-south split is the most striking, but yes south can be further divided into the GTA, SW (farm country and a small part of the rust belt, similar to the Midwest) and eastern (Ottawa and the townships: government and farms) Michigan and Ohio are most similar to SW but upstate NY also bleeds culturally into the region, both around Niagara and the thousand islands.
I don't know that someone Thunder Bay/Sault Ste Marie is that culturally different from Barrie/Sarnia. Windsor to Ottawa is very different.
That 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border seems minimally related to culture differences and more geographic/economic.
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Housing speculation in Canada is a national industry. The assholes in both the major parties will never lift a finger to do anything about it because either they, or their baby boomer voters, are all hyper invested in making sure Number Goes Up for housing. Look at the way Poilievre foams all apoplectic at the mouth about the BoC raising its rate (as if it's Trudeau's choice what that # is... but whatever) while at t…
Real estate is something absurd like 20% of Canada’s GDP, isn’t it? What may have started as greed has evolved into something vital to the country’s existence. You can’t just crash Canadian real estate without having a major negative impact on the country.
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I think our Canadian cabal is doing everything it can to speed up global warming. We have the dirtiest oil in the world (Alberta Oil Sands) and we essentially based our economy on extraction.
It's making me wonder about those recent "accidental" forest fires up there..
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I wonder if global warming could make it into one of the most populous countries in the distant future. Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.
I think our Canadian cabal is doing everything it can to speed up global warming. We have the dirtiest oil in the world (Alberta Oil Sands) and we essentially based our economy on extraction.
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You'd be even more surprised to learn that 50% of Canadians live further south than much of the US ;) http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ca...
Totally :) But I decided against living in Seattle after noticing how far north Boulder was compared to Arizona bothered me. Though otherwise I was all set to move to Seattle. I still haven't been there yet. But then later I moved to the northeast for a while so I suppose Toronto would be something I'd try. So yeah, joking :)
Congrats, Canada! This has alerted me to the (IMO, pretty surprising) fact that all of Canada holds fewer people than the BosWash corridor.
Only a small portion of Canada is livable (basically along the US border) - so it is quite small in that regard. Also, 50% of them live further south than the US border: http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ca...
I've been living in Canada for 8 years and I generally heard people referring to "35M people", which I believe will soon change to "40M" people. Interesting that there is apparently a population clock that model's Canada's population: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005... See also the Century Initiative: https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/ to reach 100M by 2100.
I wonder if global warming could make it into one of the most populous countries in the distant future. Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.
Unlikely. The parts of Canada that aren't settled (and aren't actually in or near the Arctic Circle) are that way not because of temperature, but because the soil is almost entirely unsuitable for farming: Either rocky Canadian Shield, or "swallows locomotives overnight" muskeg (plus infinite numbers of mosquitos).
>Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.
Canada will net benefit from global warming, yes, because the Northwest Passage will become navigable. But it is not true that temperature is the only thing keeping Canada from being able to support as many people as the US, which has almost identically sized geography.