Expand North! So much room up there.
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Legitimate question: what may be the actual reason for this concentration? Is it weather? Natural resources? Is it political? On a related note: what is the reason that Canada as a whole has so few people? It is still mindblowing for me that the entire country has less people than each of the world's top 3 metropolitan areas
Yea weather, but also the Canadian shield. There is just a thin layer of soil on top of the bedrock over a huge portion of Canada.
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It's hard to build stuff in the shield.
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The average Canadian
Yes, but instead of guarding against white walkers from the north it’s pedos from the south.
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Its pretty cool city with great food and terminally bad traffic problems. Source: live there.
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John Candy tried to warn us. They're preparing for an invasion!
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No one lives in the Maritimes and Newfies are a figment of our imagination?
The implication of that map is skewed hard though. It's only cause of Montreal, Toronto, S & SW ontario and Vancouver. 3 small spots compared to the size of the border, with 90% of the border population.
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Yes, but instead of guarding against white walkers from the north it’s pedos from the south.
And in this case winter is going, as global temperatures rise
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The Canadian Musket
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Its pretty cool city with great food and terminally bad traffic problems. Source: live there.
This makes me wonder if NY drivers drive like the crazies on the 401 and gardiner
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I have a friend who grew up in northern canada. It's horror stories all the way down for my warm, balmy weather loving butt. Even my friend from minnesota scared me... I couldn't believe the canadian terror.
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the rest is on fire. burning for decades. wind shifted of late
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No one lives in the Maritimes and Newfies are a figment of our imagination?
Tbf, the Newfies I've met certainly feel like a figment of my imagination.
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Hell, the US is all they talk about here on lemmy. I'm not sure they don't want to join either.
Kind of like all you would talk about is the festering boil in the middle of your face.
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Legitimate question: what may be the actual reason for this concentration? Is it weather? Natural resources? Is it political? On a related note: what is the reason that Canada as a whole has so few people? It is still mindblowing for me that the entire country has less people than each of the world's top 3 metropolitan areas
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'd argue the weather as the biggest one, at least for BC. Northern BC is absolutely beautiful but it's cold af in the winter and burny as hell in the summer. If we're talking far north in the territories, I know another issue is infrastructure because it's much more difficult to build/get stuff up there. Though this meme misses a big part of the Indigenous/Inuit population that lives up there.
Also, this country is just fucking huge, like bigger than I think any of us realize. If our population were to spread out, it would be a very thin spread.
Edit: I kept thinking about this and got help with some math on it. If the population of Canada were to spread out, we'd each have about 64 acres (0.256km) to ourselves. By comparison, the same calculation in the US with the US population would equal approx 0.03 km, or just over 7 acres per person.
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Legitimate question: what may be the actual reason for this concentration? Is it weather? Natural resources? Is it political? On a related note: what is the reason that Canada as a whole has so few people? It is still mindblowing for me that the entire country has less people than each of the world's top 3 metropolitan areas
wrote last edited by [email protected]Also this map is kinda misleading. Edmonton and the entire 4 maritime provinces are not here, and the main reason so much of the population is close to the border is that something like 1/3 of the population is clustered around the great lakes/st Laurence, because people came here by boat.
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85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the American border. And yous claim you don't want to be part of them.
*(runs and hides)*
Your instance saved you
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Kind of like all you would talk about is the festering boil in the middle of your face.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Edit: I misread your comment, apologies.
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And in this case winter is going, as global temperatures rise
Summer is coming.
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85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the American border. And yous claim you don't want to be part of them.
*(runs and hides)*
If anything, this proves how much Canadians don't want to be Americans.
Canadian weather is shitty, you can't grow crops for most of the year. During the fraction of the year where the climate is suitable for growing crops, the variety of things that grow is small compared to what's possible in the US. And, as bad as winter can be, summer's no good either. You don't want to be outside in the winter because it's -30, and you don't want to be outside in the summer because it's +35. The cost of living in Canada is high because you need to heat your home in the winter and cool it in the summer. Almost everybody drives a car because of that "being outside sucks" thing, but cars are expensive to own and operate in Canada. There's the cost of winter tires, more expensive winter fuels, antifreeze in the windshield washer, plus the constant freeze/thaw cycle wrecks the road surfaces, which results in potholes, which results in more wear and tear on cars. In addition, to make driving safe they drop a lot of salt and sand, which just rusts your car. Because the country is a thin strip, everything is far away, and everything communications-related is expensive. And, a low population relative to the US means that a lot of companies just don't offer services in Canada because it isn't worth it to comply with Canadian laws just to get the same number of customers you could get from a single American state. I could keep going on and on.
Yet, despite all that, Canadians huddle up as close as possible to the border for warmth, but refuse to go any further south because that would mean entering the US. As bad as Canada's climate is, putting up with that is an easy decision to make when the alternative is 'Murica.
