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The Canadian suburbs just look artificial, they don't reflect on Canada's climate at all, and looks like homes that'll be found in Phoenix or Las Vegas. The yards are very big and there is a lot of space inside.
I thought that myself. I usually find myself in agreement with hobbe's posts, too.
I thought those areas looked quite nice.
And to all these Canadian suburb shots, not my cup of tea. I guess I'm just not a suburb guy.
Seriously why are people so against driving a car? It gives you freedom. I myself hate public transportation, that's why I like living in suburb right outside a large city.
Btw public transportation in Canada's largest cities, particularly in Montreal and Toronto is excellent! No car needed at all, and they do have bike lanes.
We have about 800 kilometres of bike paths on the island of Montreal.
These huge symmetric neighbourhoods with hundreds (or thousands?) of equal sized middle class houses and gardens located beside eachother in a network, simply don't exist in Scandinavia. Plenty of people have multiple floor houses, big gardens and garage in Scandinavia too, but they are not part of a designed neighbourhood like that.
These huge symmetric neighbourhoods with hundreds (or thousands?) of equal sized middle class houses and gardens located beside eachother in a network, simply don't exist in Scandinavia. Plenty of people have multiple floor houses, big gardens and garage in Scandinavia too, but they are not part of a designed neighbourhood like that.
I think they do exist, but in much smaller scale. Buildings look different as well. But I do find those, and the ones in Canada quite boring as well. We also have midrise neighbourhoods with repeating mid rise residental towers (like 4-5 stories) but that's another story.
And we have some great surban area, to those who said they look like ghettos. Those villas are very desirable in many places. We do have ghettos too, or more run down area. Often they are situated in high rise neighbourshoods.
Today, which is slightly cloudy the sea temperature is 13.3 C or 56 F. Not tropical by any means, but definitely swimmable ….and many people do.
Maybe with a wetsuit, but even then most people would not call 56F swimmable (of course I live in Texas where the water is 86F right now off the coast and the water doesn't even get as cold as 56F in the winter, maybe 58-60F).
However, using Canada as a measuring stick, even Canadian Maritimes gets to mid 60's water temps in the summer (and sometimes lower 70's) off the coast of Nova Scotia where you hit the Jet Stream.
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
Those are small lots and the homes are right on the streets.
Invicible's view was completely different. The homes seem a bit smaller in the Scandivian one, but otherwise they look like nicer neighborhoods. There's not much landscaping in the Winnipeg view there, either. Seems a bit blank and bland to me.
Invicible's view was completely different. The homes seem a bit smaller in the Scandivian one, but otherwise they look like nicer neighborhoods. There's not much landscaping in the Winnipeg view there, either. Seems a bit blank and bland to me.
These homes also have a large lower ground floor/basement, used as a living room or more bedrooms.
I am aware they are among the healthiest in the world, but I would have difficulty eating a lot of really simple foods like just vegetable sandwiches, cured/ smoked fish, simple sausages & simply boiled potatoes. Just very basic & simple & bland for my tastes.
I know it's not just like the cafeteria at IKEA, but I do know the cuisine is "simple" in all definitions
So why not go to a restaurant that doesn´t serve that food?
I am aware they are among the healthiest in the world, but I would have difficulty eating a lot of really simple foods like just vegetable sandwiches, cured/ smoked fish, simple sausages & simply boiled potatoes. Just very basic & simple & bland for my tastes.
I know it's not just like the cafeteria at IKEA, but I do know the cuisine is "simple" in all definitions
What is it you eat in the USA that you cannot find here in Sweden...
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