Canadian vs. Nordic large cities (homes, restaurants, costs)

[Rams_Lord]

Originally Posted by Olivierad

Sorry but North American suburbs are much much nicer than Nordic and Europeans in general; both the beautiful homes, amazing landscaping, spacious yards and bigger roads.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@59.31...trs6ppMeeQ!2e0

There are a lot of places like that^ in Sweden. The landscape is similar to Canada and the houses are just as big. I would say the roads here however are much smaller, especially in residential areas...

Denmark has the biggest homes on average in the whole of Europe

[nei]

Then there are suburbs in Sweeden like this:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=59.39...0.19,,0,-13.14

Toronto tosses its projects in the city rather than the burbs:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=43.66...8.95,,0,-12.86

[Rams_Lord]

Originally Posted by nei

Then there are suburbs in Sweeden like this:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=59.39...0.19,,0,-13.14

Toronto tosses its projects in the city rather than the burbs:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=43.66...8.95,,0,-12.86

Do you mean projects like apartment blocks?

[nei]

Originally Posted by Rams_Lord

Do you mean projects like apartment blocks?

As in public housing. I think it's called "social housing" in Europe.

[iNviNciBL3]

Originally Posted by Rams_Lord

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@59.31...trs6ppMeeQ!2e0

There are a lot of places like that^ in Sweden. The landscape is similar to Canada and the houses are just as big. I would say the roads here however are much smaller, especially in residential areas...

Denmark has the biggest homes on average in the whole of Europe

Beautiful houses but they are not as big as Canadian suburban homes, they don't have much of a front yard and they don't even have garages.

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.8033...RKhwdOVP2A!2e0

[Rams_Lord]

Originally Posted by nei

As in public housing. I think it's called "social housing" in Europe.

There are some projects going on near the city centre, here's one that just got completed (dark tall one):


But they are not as dense in the city centre as the one's in Toronto, going by your street view link

[nei]

Originally Posted by iNviNciBL3

Beautiful houses but they are not as big as Canadian suburban homes, they don't have much of a front yard and they don't even have garages.

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.8033...RKhwdOVP2A!2e0

And your Canadian example has front yard of either grass and concrete and no landscaping with the front of the house looking like an add on to a garage. Nor trees. This looks much more friendly:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=59...-1.62&t=m&z=14

[Rams_Lord]

There are pretty descent suburbs in Gothenburg too:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...019078290e7c40

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...019078290e7c40

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...019078290e7c40

[Natnasci]

Originally Posted by nei

And your Canadian example has front yard of either grass and concrete and no landscaping with the front of the house looking like an add on to a garage. Nor trees. This looks much more friendly:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=59...-1.62&t=m&z=14

There's more to Canada than Winnipeg, but Invincible hasn't travelled much in Canada.

This is a typical suburb, Coquitlam, 30 minutes outside of downtown Vancouver.

http://goo.gl/jHMG8k

[nei]

looks a bit similar in scale to this American one:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=42+Ea...lxD01ah21zaimA