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Invicible's view was completely different. The homes seem a bit smaller in the Scandivian one, but otherwise they look like nicer neighborhoods. There's not much landscaping in the Winnipeg view there, either. Seems a bit blank and bland to me.
I believe the first Winnipeg photos are from a fairly new area. Give it five or 10 years and there will be landscaping and it will be much more mature and attractive with bigger trees, etc.
Could any post streetviews of these Nordic suburban centers? I had trouble finding much in Copenhagen suburbs. Just some wide commercial roads and scattered boxy stores. Not really pedestrian hostile, but not that nice looking, either.
I haven't been to Australia so I have no personal experience, but in what way are Australian cities different than Canadian ones? It's a pretty broad brush I admit since I wouldn't compare Calgary to Melbourne, but apparently the comparison of Melbourne and Vancouver is a popular one.
My friends from Sydney who have travelled in Canada and the US say the opposite of your viewpoint. They said that Canadian cities " feel " more like home to them, than American ones. I realize this is very subjective…but your thoughts??
I would tend to agree with this (with some exceptions, which I will address later). I am Canadian and know Australia quite well.
CBDs and single-family areas are quite similar between Canada and Australia in most cases.
Where it's different is in retail development patterns.
Older suburbs of single-family homes (common to both countries) in Australia will have a village-like high street where locals do most of their everyday shopping, but in Canada will have a four to six lane arterial road lined with strip malls and box stores with parking out front.
Even newer suburbs in Oz seem to do retail areas better.
This is in a Mississauga or Brampton-style suburb of Sydney, an area with a sea of cooker-cutter McMansions squeezed in on smallish lots. Very similar to newer suburbs in Canada and the US.
But look where these people can go to shop or have a drink:
I am aware they are among the healthiest in the world, but I would have difficulty eating a lot of really simple foods like just vegetable sandwiches, cured/ smoked fish, simple sausages & simply boiled potatoes. Just very basic & simple & bland for my tastes.
I know it's not just like the cafeteria at IKEA, but I do know the cuisine is "simple" in all definitions
Voi jumalauta. That's very rich coming from an American. Do you seriously think we eat only vegetable sandwiches, boiled potatoes and smoked fish all the time? No, we don't. We have amazing food over here. It would be like saying you Americans don't anything besides burgers and fries.
Best regards, "not a single sausage in years"
PS, those endless suburbs of mcmansions is my personal view of hell. Filled with sterile, neat, churchgoing mindless bots. Yuck!
Voi jumalauta. That's very rich coming from an American. Do you seriously think we eat only vegetable sandwiches, boiled potatoes and smoked fish all the time? No, we don't. We have amazing food over here. It would be like saying you Americans don't anything besides burgers and fries.
Best regards, "not a single sausage in years"
PS, those endless suburbs of mcmansions is my personal view of hell. Filled with sterile, neat, churchgoing mindless bots. Yuck!
You've never lived in a so-called McMansion, and will never be able to afford it. It's easy to say something is hell when you have no clue what living there entails. I sense some deep-seated feelings of angst-ridden inferiority coming from you.
You've never lived in a so-called McMansion, and will never be able to afford it. It's easy to say something is hell when you have no clue what living there entails. I sense some deep-seated feelings of angst-ridden inferiority coming from you.
Or maybe it has no appeal. I've been inside them, no interest. Can't afford now for sure.
PS, those endless suburbs of mcmansions is my personal view of hell. Filled with sterile, neat, churchgoing mindless bots. Yuck!
Many of those Scandivian burbs are rather neat though not sterile, too. I've met plenty of non-mindless churchgoing bots. And so who are. And non-churgoing bots who worship stuff instead. Worse IMO. I have a friend who got tipsy once and then listened to online liturgical service.
The pictures of "nice" Nordic suburbs look like upper-lower income areas, or lower-middle income areas (the most recent set of "decent" suburb pictures were much better than the hood-looking ones). Better than apartments? Yes but not what one would aspire to. The kicker is that those places are probably cost the same amount as the superior North American 'burbs.
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Many of those Scandivian burbs are rather neat though not sterile, too.
Some of them look relatively neat and sterile, which is a huge plus. But they are still smaller neat and sterile places of lower quality.
The pictures of "nice" Nordic suburbs look like upper-lower income areas, or lower-middle income areas (the most recent set of "decent" suburb pictures were much better than the hood-looking ones). Better than apartments? Yes but not what one would aspire to. The kicker is that those places are probably cost the same amount as the superior North American 'burbs.
And I don't. Don't see much extra appeal of your examples, yes they're bigger, but ok so what? Most of the Nordic ones aren't that small, either. Why should I aspire to that?
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