Do you think there are too many people in your country? (places, German)
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France has only ONE large city, followed by a bunch of mid sized ones. Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Strasbourg are all relatively small cities each can double or triple their population without any issue of overpopulation.
Can people stop with that or not? France has only ONE big city blah blah the rest is all rural and people lives in farms with no electricity and water thing. I'm exagerating a lot right but you know what I mean...
And by packed like sardins, maybe it wasn't the best to say, I just wanted to say that with 120millions people France wouldn't be the same, people would be more on others, things like that.
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And I am not even talking about the countryside that have very few people.
Countryside is less urbanized so less people, but it's not desertic either...
I don't know why for some people small town equals rural or isolated.
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France has 118 ppl/sq km, compared with 202 for Italy, 262 for the UK, and 407 for the Netherlands.
People need to stop comparing everything, it's useless.
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The entire country has agreeable weather too.
lol, the south is crap, too hot, too sunny, not enough rain. Where I live it's the same. There's only some parts of France that have agreeable weather.
And please don't tell me I complain too much, I know the average person like sunny, warn weather but sadly I don't.
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I don't see how France can be "empty" with 65 million people whereas in 1940 with 40 millions it was already full. Another case of skewed thinking. France should have way less population in my book.
Excuse me, I live in Cognac, Poitou-Charentes, you know where that is, don't have to tell you, there's plenty of empty spaces there, with all that space you could build tens of new homes or whatever.
And "France should have less population" is stupid.
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small population - small market, lack of labour, higher cost/prices, less innovation/ideas, less culture.
Do people all want to live in quiet and uneventful little village for the rest of their life? Not every city has to be as big and busy as Paris, but I am sure cities like Barcelona or Munich are not too hectic to handle. France has Paris and all the French towns.
I live in Canada and I wish it had 100 million people, instead of 35 million.
Yeah Canada is so underpopulated. I always fly over Canada to get to New York and it's crazy how empty it is, you can literally fly for like 1,000 miles and not see a single town.
I live in one of the few open spaces we have in this country and would like to keep it that way, although in reality it will probably be crowded like the rest of the country in a few decades. Up to a year ago there wasn't even a highway connection with the rest of the southern Netherlands and Belgium. Now there is...
It might be good for the local economy, but it's sad to see that beautiful open farmland and old farms destroyed.
I did volunteer work for a nature preserve reservation in our neighborhood for five years. It was this tiny little spot of 500 hectares along the coast. They (the organisation) talked about it like it was this huge wild nature country, like going "into the wild" like it was Alaska, lol.
That shows how little we have left...
I live in Canada and I wish it had 100 million people, instead of 35 million
You are completely nuts!
No I am not.
Even in cities like Toronto and Vancouver, there are too many 1-2 story homes, which create so much sparsely populated, totally car dependant areas that is devoid of anything interesting.
100 million would be appropriate for countries like Canada. Even between Toronto and Montreal there are vast land with nothing.
France on the other hand, should have a few cities half or a third of Paris' population. Central France is very sparsely populated. South west as well. Some more density doesn't hurt.
I live in one of the few open spaces we have in this country and would like to keep it that way, although in reality it will probably be crowded like the rest of the country in a few decades. Up to a year ago there wasn't even a highway connection with the rest of the southern Netherlands and Belgium. Now there is...
It might be good for the local economy, but it's sad to see that beautiful open farmland and old farms destroyed.
I did volunteer work for a nature preserve reservation in our neighborhood for five years. It was this tiny little spot of 500 hectares along the coast. They (the organisation) talked about it like it was this huge wild nature country, like going "into the wild" like it was Alaska, lol.
That shows how little we have left...
I actually find the density of the Netherlands quite ok. Probably because I'm from an even denser country, living here, it actually feels quite spacious.
It's probably not good if you like nature though, I mean, it's really flat, so almost all land is habituated.
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