• frostbiker@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m surprised that Canada doesn’t have the #1 spot in housing unaffordability. Things are grim here.

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      On a national level there’s a lot of cheap places in sparsely populated areas. Just like the US.

      England has some “country” but it’s a much smaller percentage so city prices aren’t offset as much.

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        England also has a very unusual distribution for the population. The Greater London area is something in the order of 1/3 of the entire population alone.

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          Yes, but the uk doesn’t have the spare non urban centres. The uk is densely populated throughout, pretty much.

          London to Brighton is really one big city, for instance.

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            Yes, but the uk doesn’t have the spare non urban centres

            There is plenty of space in the north of the UK, where the climate is far milder than in the immense majority of the territory in Canada.

            Windsor to Montreal is also really one big city. Unsurprisingly since it’s one of the areas with relatively mild climate, compared to places like Nunavut.

            Space is not the problem. The problem is that we welcome over a million people coming to the country per year and we are not building nearly enough housing for them.

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          Crazy stat I heard is that 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border while at the same time the country is the 2nd largest in the world.