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View Poll Results: Which cities do you prefer & seem more interesting?
Canadian cities 54 48.21%
Nordic cities 58 51.79%
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Old 01-29-2015, 11:15 PM
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Beautiful. Heading to Stockholm in February. Any sight-seeing recommendations?
Get ready to brave the cold. Have you been to Copenhagen? I haven't been to Stockholm or Oslo, but I always hear how Copenhagen is better than them.
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:14 AM
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Get ready to brave the cold. Have you been to Copenhagen? I haven't been to Stockholm or Oslo, but I always hear how Copenhagen is better than them.
He lives in Boston, so Stockholm cold won't be anything that isn't used to in the winter. Stockholm winters average colder than Boston's, but it varies year to year; this January so far has been warmer in Stockholm than Boston.
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:25 AM
 
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I think it's interesting to see that some North Americans regard a nice Swedish neighborhood as a ghetto. And on the other hand, some of the pictures posted of a nice North American neighborhood doesn't look appealing whatsoever to people from the Nordic countries.

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Old 01-30-2015, 06:37 AM
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I think it's interesting to see that some North Americans regard a nice Swedish neighborhood as a ghetto. And on the other hand, some of the pictures posted of a nice North American neighborhood doesn't look appealing whatsoever to people from the Nordic countries.

which one was that?
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:53 AM
 
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which one was that?
In post #75 hobbesdj compared a Swedish neighborhood with a ghetto. Here's one of the pictures: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.67...G-l3jfY3nw!2e0
and then he/she provided an example of a nice american suburban neighborhood:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2076...06ZvEG524g!2e0

The wierd thing is that the american neighborhood sort of looks like a neighborhood here in Denmark that is not very attractive to the average Dane to the point where the house are either unsellable or or can be bought very cheaply. I guess it's just a matter of cultural preferences.

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Old 01-30-2015, 07:24 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Get ready to brave the cold. Have you been to Copenhagen? I haven't been to Stockholm or Oslo, but I always hear how Copenhagen is better than them.
Yeah, really frigid for a Bostoner...
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The wierd thing is that the american neighborhood sort of looks like a neighborhood here in Denmark that is not very attractive to the average Dane to the point where the house are either unsellable or or can be bought very cheaply. I guess it's just a matter of cultural preferences.
Can hardly call that a neighbourhood, more like some rural outback.

Yeah, those wouldn't sell, as people don't want that large houses and you aren't sardines in a can in the hood either.

This is a neighbourhood: https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.19056...2c6_1QszwQ!2e0
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Old 01-30-2015, 08:55 AM
 
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Yeah, really frigid for a Bostoner...
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Can hardly call that a neighbourhood, more like some rural outback.

Yeah, those wouldn't sell, as people don't want that large houses and you aren't sardines in a can in the hood either.

This is a neighbourhood: https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.19056...2c6_1QszwQ!2e0
Yes, this would also be very attractive in Denmark. If those houses were within 30 minutes of Copenhagen, they'd sell quickly.

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Old 01-30-2015, 09:06 AM
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In post #75 hobbesdj compared a Swedish neighborhood with a ghetto. Here's one of the pictures: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.67...G-l3jfY3nw!2e0
and then he/she provided an example of a nice american suburban neighborhood:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2076...06ZvEG524g!2e0

The wierd thing is that the american neighborhood sort of looks like a neighborhood here in Denmark that is not very attractive to the average Dane to the point where the house are either unsellable or or can be bought very cheaply. I guess it's just a matter of cultural preferences.
Not everyone in the US has hobbesdj's tastes.I think many Americans would find the Danish neighborhood attractive. It's not really crowded, the houses look like they're in good shape. Some would prefer the bigger houses and more land of the American example others wouldn't. I like the Danish one better, houses are colorful and there's more shrubs and landscaping.

Here's an older, rather expensive suburban neighborhood of San Francisco. :

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Burli...,,0,-2.45&z=15

No one would call that one ghetto, the Gothenburg looks more verdant. It also has one of the nicer downtowns of suburbs in that region. Here's an older Boston suburb:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Medfo...,,0,-4.14&z=13

thought of as nice, as well. Note the difference in house style between the Boston and San Francisco area streets.
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:14 AM
 
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A lot of the suburbs of Nordic cities I have seen (on StreetView or in person) are almost similar to a lot of the ''exurbia" here.

http://goo.gl/maps/kIZ3R

What is commonly referred to as suburbia is actually reasonably dense here:

http://goo.gl/maps/Hj92w
This has puzzled me. Could you care to give some examples, and we'll see if's a suburb at all or instead the countryside. Because the first link is definitely not considered a suburb here.
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:23 AM
 
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Not everyone in the US has hobbesdj's tastes.I think many Americans would find the Danish neighborhood attractive. It's not really crowded, the houses look like they're in good shape. Some would prefer the bigger houses and more land of the American example others wouldn't. I like the Danish one better, houses are colorful and there's more shrubs and landscaping.

Here's an older, rather expensive suburban neighborhood of San Francisco. :

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Burli...,,0,-2.45&z=15

No one would call that one ghetto, the Gothenburg looks more verdant. It also has one of the nicer downtowns of suburbs in that region. Here's an older Boston suburb:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Medfo...,,0,-4.14&z=13

thought of as nice, as well. Note the difference in house style between the Boston and San Francisco area streets.
Yeah that's some really nice houses too. They almost look Swedish. In Denmark most of our houses are build with bricks whereas it is much more common for Swedes to use planks/wood houses. I guess this also applies in Finland and Norway.
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