Canadian vs. Nordic large cities (condos, shops, gardening)
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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