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A little harsh, some of the houses look pretty but they are very small, have no garages, and have narrow streets. nothing like a suburb in Canada
What's wrong with narrow streets? Slows down traffic on residential street. Why would I want traffic flying through?
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I wasn't really focused on finding the most pretty neighborhood just trying to prove that Canadian suburbs have larger yards, larger homes and are more open. Don't you agree that is true?
Yea but you found the least attractive suburban example I could think of, I thought you were trying to prove Canadian suburbs are nicer. I guess you don't find them unattractive, to each his own. As for each:
1) Larger yards. Maybe, depends on the city. Toronto has small lot sizes for North American metros, perhaps the smallest. Vancouver isn't that much larger either. Some of your examples look rather small, especially the ones with the houses almost touching. The Scandinavian suburban homes varied, but it's hard to tell from streetview, there could be a large backyard, seeing the front tells us little. It's common in older homes in the Northeast to have a small front yard and much bigger backyard. I think Canadian suburbs do have bigger yards overall, but the difference might be small
2) Larger houses: probably. Would be nice to see some numbers, they're available. Might look them up. Looks like about 50-60% of Scandinavians live in detached homes.
3) Open? Definitely. Not much why this matters though. I thought too open was a negative. In a few of the views, I felt there needed to be big trees or something so it wouldn't be some empty looking. Wouldn't amount of greenery and trees be important for a good suburb?
I don't compare that much about big yards and big houses so when I was judging the views, I just saw big enough.
These still don't look as appealing. Very old structures, probably are very drafty in winter, the roads are narrow, probably hard to pass after a snow storm.
The second view looks like a lower middle class neighborhood in Canada/US. Yet it probably has prices of Beverly Hills or Hawaii.
I could be wrong, but I think the street I live on is as narrow as the first view. Don't see anything wrong with it, why would I would look at more asphalt? And it's fine with the snow, I suspect the snow plowing there is efficient. Very old? I'm curious how old those homes are. I suspect they aren't, I don't think detached homes were that common in Sweeden until the mid 20th century onward. Anyone?
As for lawns being perfectly kempt, I don't like lawns turning into a mess of weeds either. But the whole property being just lawn is boring, I'd prefer to have a mix of some natural looking vegetation.
I think the appealing is subjective. I rather look the look, I'm not in love with or anything, but since it's still rather green and detached homes, I expected the American posters wouldn't dislike it, I'm rather surprised.
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