• @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    191 year ago

    On a national level there’s a lot of cheap places in sparsely populated areas. Just like the US.

    England has some “country” but it’s a much smaller percentage so city prices aren’t offset as much.

    • @taladar@feddit.de
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      31 year ago

      England also has a very unusual distribution for the population. The Greater London area is something in the order of 1/3 of the entire population alone.

      • @hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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        121 year ago

        Yes, but the uk doesn’t have the spare non urban centres. The uk is densely populated throughout, pretty much.

        London to Brighton is really one big city, for instance.

        • @frostbiker@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Yes, but the uk doesn’t have the spare non urban centres

          There is plenty of space in the north of the UK, where the climate is far milder than in the immense majority of the territory in Canada.

          Windsor to Montreal is also really one big city. Unsurprisingly since it’s one of the areas with relatively mild climate, compared to places like Nunavut.

          Space is not the problem. The problem is that we welcome over a million people coming to the country per year and we are not building nearly enough housing for them.