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Sep 21 '07 by stubby43
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I really didnt realise just how big the difference is

most of you know but I'm a brit living in canada till christmas so I'm a long way from home but I never really realised just how different the places are.

Well what I really mean by that is size our country is tiny you can drive the length of the country in a day but then you look at canada and its offically the worlds second largest country in terms of total area.

Thats huge, its difficult to comprehend just how big it is.

But then you look at the populations, canada has a population of just 30 million people, the UK is 60 milion people.

We are a tiny country thats densly packed, but canada is the complete opposite.

I mean people own acres of land, that just doenst happen in the UK, there isnt the space and it would be too expensive.

Even in the USA people own acers of land for a relativly in expensive price and theres 300 million of you lot.

bsweber on Sep 21 '07 at 3:58pm

the new world is large

AsStarsGoOut on Sep 21 '07 at 3:59pm

mr. phil, i can't wait to meet you in ny in a few months .

squintygirl on Sep 21 '07 at 4:00pm

Put it this way: the geographic centre of Canada is approximately 40km north of the tree line. That should give you an idea of how much of this fine country is practically inhabitable.

squintygirl on Sep 21 '07 at 4:00pm

*uninhabitable

stubby43 on Sep 21 '07 at 4:01pm

I'm really looking forward to it, I'll be staying with some friends for a couple of days and hanging with them but i havent really decided what to do about the blogger meet up, only one of them will really understand it so I'd feel a bit odd taking the three of them along but theres no way in hell I'll be able to afford a night in a hotel in new york at christmas.

But yeah I'm already getting the traveling itch again.

tracerbullet on Sep 21 '07 at 4:06pm

ah, it's good to own land.

juliejeremiah on Sep 21 '07 at 4:08pm

I myself own a parcel of land roughly equivalent to the size of Wales.

margolove on Sep 21 '07 at 4:10pm

heh... everything in Britain felt so compact and small in comparison to here. Not that that's a bad thing, but it was interesting to see that it sort of does correlate to the fact that it's a smaller and densely-populated place.

stubby43 on Sep 21 '07 at 4:11pm

holy hell, you own land the size of a country?!?!

Thats insane, I mean what do you do with it?

juliejeremiah on Sep 21 '07 at 4:14pm

Fur trade.

Ahaha I'm totally joking...though you might be impressed with the actual size of my house and yard, I bet you could fit a dozen London flats within our property.

stubby43 on Sep 21 '07 at 4:14pm

I got taken to one of my friends lots and shown the area of land their family owns and it was like, you can put my town in that land two times over and still have space.

A long drive for us would be 4 hours but most people only drive two hours at the most, I can get where I want to go within 40 minutes usually.

xiv on Sep 21 '07 at 4:17pm

crazy southerners own a ridiculous amount of land. a friend of the family has just inherited 120something acres in the middle of southern florida.

margolove on Sep 21 '07 at 4:20pm

haha, I remember talking to some cousins in Manchester, and discussing driving times or something, and they were kind of flabbergasted when we told them we'd driven 700 or 800 miles in a day.

stubby43 on Sep 21 '07 at 4:50pm

I know but the other thing is if we cant drive we can just get a bus or a train somwhere its so much easier to travel in the UK, if you dont have a car your basically trapped here.

ISABOA on Sep 21 '07 at 4:54pm

Preach it brother -

peater on Sep 21 '07 at 5:17pm

isaboa, Alaska is basically Diet Canada, isn't it?

ISABOA on Sep 21 '07 at 5:20pm

peater on Sep 21 '07 at 5:17pm

isaboa, Alaska is basically Diet Canada, isn't it?

AHAHAHA .... no

asfi235 on Sep 21 '07 at 5:23pm

I think many North Americans undervalue land, just because there's so much of it. They don't derive much benefit from sprawling all over the place, and they spend more and yet more time driving around on bigger and yet bigger roads, just to take care of the daily necessities of life. And as you point out, Phil, it all has to be done by car because nothing else works when everything's so spread out. So of course there's all these cars that need parking spots everywhere they go, and this spreads things out even more....

I've lived in or stayed at all sorts of places, and I think the compact city-centre neighbourhoods are the best. For one thing, if I go out for an evening of fun, I never have to worry about how I'm going to get home afterwards.

ISABOA on Sep 21 '07 at 5:27pm

you guys are nuts

I can go out on my porch completely butt ass naked -

I don't have to worry about locking my front door -

my boy has a go kart track in his back yard

ekaj47 on Sep 21 '07 at 5:30pm

my parents have 180 acres out in the middle of nowhere texas

and they are crazy cause they are thinking about selling it all and moving to the city - but i guess as your getting older you dont want to fall over and wait a few days for someone to notice

hey i can go out on my porch completely naked too, but thats just cause i dont care what the neighbors say

peater on Sep 21 '07 at 5:33pm

I just crunched the numbers:

If the United States had London's population density, we would have 27,174,263,618 people.

Twenty-seven billion.

stubby43 on Sep 21 '07 at 5:37pm

Thats insane.

peater on Sep 21 '07 at 5:48pm

I just got back from a jaunt in the UK, and while the dense cities have their own charm, I often found the lifestyle stagnant... people would rather put up with abominable traffic and congested tubes than make major improvements make way for new infrastructure, or move out.

I didn't know the true meaning of claustrophobia, before going on the underground in London and Paris.

In this country, we would have a fit.

stubby43 on Sep 21 '07 at 5:50pm

maybe, chicagos train system is pretty similar to londons its pretty crampt.