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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 01-30-2015, 12:00 PM
 
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I often feel like snitching on my neighbours who don't have the required number of trees on their property. So far I have resisted the temptation.

I am more of a tree person than a flower person. I love that stuff - I was German my surname would be Baumgartner!
lol - Der Gärtner mit Umlaut Never forget the Umlaut.
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Old 01-30-2015, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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lol - Der Gärtner mit Umlaut Never forget the Umlaut.
What do you call that thing in English? In French it's a "tréma".
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Old 01-30-2015, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Finland
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We call our "skandi", as in the Scandinavian alphabet. Or funnily ääkköset, because aakkoset without skandis means the alphabet in Finnish.

In French I don't remeber what all the accents are called, but "grave" and "acute". I still know where to place them. Mostly.
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Old 01-30-2015, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA/London, UK
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What do you call that thing in English? In French it's a "tréma".
Diaeresis (Same in Spanish -diéresis)
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Old 01-30-2015, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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Diaeresis (Same in Spanish -diéresis)
Muchas gracias.
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Old 01-30-2015, 01:05 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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We call our "skandi", as in the Scandinavian alphabet. Or funnily ääkköset, because aakkoset without skandis means the alphabet in Finnish.

In French I don't remeber what all the accents are called, but "grave" and "acute". I still know where to place them. Mostly.
The others are "circonflexe'' (the little hat) and the ''cédille'' (the earring on the C that softens it).
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Old 01-30-2015, 01:07 PM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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That doesn't describe all Canadian cities, and Canadian cities are mostly clean and safe even if it not quite as safe as Nordic cities. Largest Canadian Cities:

1) Toronto
2) Montreal
3) Vancouver
4) Calgary
5) Ottawa
6) Edmonton

The first two are definitely not endless highways and suburbia, they're fairly dense near the center maybe comparable to Nordic cities. Vancouver doesn't have that many highways.
The above is a list of the six largest Canadian urban areas, all with a population at least one million. What would be a comparable list of Nordic cities? I'd like to have a better sense of the ones to compare would be.
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Old 01-30-2015, 01:12 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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The above is a list of the six largest Canadian urban areas, all with a population at least one million. What would be a comparable list of Nordic cities? I'd like to have a better sense of the ones to compare would be.
Goteborg has a million people and is the largest city in the region that is not a capital.

Also looking at the stats Aarhus is almost a million as well. Funny, because it seems we never hear about it.

The name Aarhus is less familiar to me than Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim, Uppsala, Malmo, Turku, Oulu, Tampere, for some reason.
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Old 01-30-2015, 01:15 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA/London, UK
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The above is a list of the six largest Canadian urban areas, all with a population at least one million. What would be a comparable list of Nordic cities? I'd like to have a better sense of the ones to compare would be.
1) Stockholm
2) Copenhagen
3) Oslo
4) Helsinki
5) Gothenburg
6) Malmo

But I will defer to anyone else that is more familiar with that part of the world, because I am not really.
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Old 01-30-2015, 01:19 PM
 
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Goteborg has a million people and is the largest city in the region that is not a capital.

Also looking at the stats Aarhus is almost a million as well. Funny, because it seems we never hear about it.

The name Aarhus is less familiar to me than Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim, Uppsala, Malmo, Turku, Oulu, Tampere, for some reason.
Bergen is a republic and country on its own : It can't be compared with lousy nordic cities
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