Why is there a big ring of 50+ people per km/sq all around Canada?
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.
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...
I mean, there's lots of land for the cities to continue sprawling into as well, at least in the west, not to mention tear-downs and brownfields for infill. The bottleneck is actually just building stuff.
Sure, but we need to have people on our territory as well... And let's be realistic, most people want space and it's beneficial to people's mental health to not be stuck in super dense living conditions... More small cities with all services available would be a great thing (I'm saying that as a person living in a small city of 7k with all services available).
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'
We just have wait for the last forests to burn down.
Cough any day now cough. Why do my eyes burn?
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
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.
I know. I had to buy a new AC. It was hell.
Wow, HOT 🔥🔥🔥
At least Calgary gets chinooks (as much as they suck for migraines) for a mild reprieve
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.
Don't forget about the mosquitoes in those bits of the country that are nearly the same size as the cobra chickens
And a hundred times hangrier, yeah…
It'll be warm soon enough! Keep not eating the rich!
A lot of that is warmer or equal to Edmonton
We could settle a lot more but it deflates housing values and takes money/business away from the places that are settled
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?
It's full of bugs and terrible soil, also looks bigger than it is due to map distortions
That's a globe on the image, no?
Don't forget no growing season. That's the real reason white people never showed up in force.
Hopefully nothing. Hopefully they continue to fuck off and let nature exist unraped up there.
Too late, plastic rain.
Mostly nothing. Canada got it because nobody else wanted it.
big toast!!
It's wild to me how empty Canada is
the us is kind of like this too
I thought this was mostly a Mercator projection joke with a tiny amount of weather joke, but that doesn't seem to be the consensus.
A couple more election cycles and it'll be inhabitable.
I've been fishing and hiking in some of those areas. It was July or August and we had snow flurries a couple of mornings
