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Old 01-30-2015, 09:32 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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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.
How about this?

http://goo.gl/maps/Ro4BY
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Finland
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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.
Especially Norway, but true.

Finnish suburbs near Helsinki:
https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.22007...Q4p63NcYkQ!2e0

https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.24086...K3hujkeYpA!2e0

https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Esp...b890b45d33539f

https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.23194...u1jz-EkP1A!2e0

https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Esp...b890b45d33539f
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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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
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I get hobbes' point in that the American houses are generally more spacious and have more land around them (desirable to some people) but I do find the Swedish neighbourhood as a larger area to live in more attractive. The American one (and we have areas like this in Canada too) is just too stark, sterile and impersonal.

The U.S. does have very nice suburban areas (I personally like a lot of the ones around Boston and D.C. in particular) but these isolated mansions in exurbia are not really my thing.
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Finland
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How about this?

http://goo.gl/maps/Ro4BY
Sure, but the distances are still small and as you can see it's still partly an area in the making. Suburbs are often heavily forested here, so you necessarily don't see neat rows with houses if you mean suburbia as that. Turn right from Yhtiöntie and in 500 metres you'll hit this: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@60.20...i6sQ!2e0?hl=fr
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:44 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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More mature suburban areas near me:

http://goo.gl/maps/6wjo1

http://goo.gl/maps/pOc9h

Quite typical for Quebec.
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:47 AM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Sure, but the distances are still small and as you can see it's still partly an area in the making. Suburbs are often heavily forested here, so you necessarily don't see neat rows with houses if you mean suburbia as that. Turn right from Yhtiöntie and in 500 metres you'll hit this: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@60.20...i6sQ!2e0?hl=fr
Here's two areas side by side:

Two Maps One Scale

Very different style, Canadian one may be denser.
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Older suburbs:



If you turn right from that junction, the landscape changes dramatically:
Spoiler









(note the yellow-red speed sign instead of white-red)
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Here's two areas side by side:

Two Maps One Scale

Very different style, Canadian one may be denser.
Nobody's denying that.
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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Here's two areas side by side:

Two Maps One Scale

Very different style, Canadian one may be denser.
Pretty sure the Canadian one is denser unless those apartment blocks are super-tall and house hundreds of people.

BTW, one frame over and you would have probably captured my house in there!
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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Sure, but the distances are still small and as you can see it's still partly an area in the making. Suburbs are often heavily forested here, so you necessarily don't see neat rows with houses if you mean suburbia as that. Turn right from Yhtiöntie and in 500 metres you'll hit this: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@60.20...i6sQ!2e0?hl=fr
I actually love how the trees are conserved by builders (assuming that's what they do) in your country. Here, the builders are usually allowed to bulldoze all the trees and that's what they do most of the time. And then they plant tiny trees that take years to mature. That's why newer suburban areas often have few trees. If the people don't maintain them they often also die off, although the city here obliges you to have at least one tree (minimum diameter) in front of your house.

I am kind of obsessive about trees on my property so I had a bunch of them planted within the first month after we bought it. So now 10 years later I have a huge Norway maple in front of my house that is a tall as the house's two storeys. Plus a bunch of other trees in the front and back yard.

I am also fortunate to back onto a woodland park at the back of my house.

In about another five years or so, when it comes to trees my street should like similar to the ones I just posted on here.
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