I wish I could move to Tuktoyaktuk
Expand North! So much room up there.
Submitted 11 hours ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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MissJinx@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Ayyyy one of the 15% that doesn’t live near the border checking in 😎
apftwb@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
How’s the weather up there?
Pistcow@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
#COLD
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
America isn’t any better. Depending on what statistic you are looking at, 40% to 75% of all Americans live within 100 miles of the border
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 1 hour ago
Considering the relative surface areas, with those percentages you provided, actually, yes, America is less consolidated.
Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Lake Michigan isn’t a border…
kungen@feddit.nu 4 hours ago
Due to the Straits of Mackinac, the CBP considers it to be so.
J92@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It is a border between wet and dry.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 hours ago
can ice do more shit in the 100 mile zone or nah?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 minutes ago
Yes and it includes ‘within 100 miles of an airport’.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
ICE isn’t CBP though. They technically don’t have jurisdiction over American citizens. CBP does.
spoke0thedevil@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
…of which border?
4am@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
The American one
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
The border with the ocean probably, humans love to live on the crust of the land
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Sorry. I clarified with a photo in my post
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the American border. And yous claim you don’t want to be part of them.
*(runs and hides)*
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
If anything, this proves how much Canadians don’t want to be Americans.
Canadian weather is shitty, you can’t grow crops for most of the year. During the fraction of the year where the climate is suitable for growing crops, the variety of things that grow is small compared to what’s possible in the US. And, as bad as winter can be, summer’s no good either. You don’t want to be outside in the winter because it’s -30, and you don’t want to be outside in the summer because it’s +35. The cost of living in Canada is high because you need to heat your home in the winter and cool it in the summer. Almost everybody drives a car because of that “being outside sucks” thing, but cars are expensive to own and operate in Canada. There’s the cost of winter tires, more expensive winter fuels, antifreeze in the windshield washer, plus the constant freeze/thaw cycle wrecks the road surfaces, which results in potholes, which results in more wear and tear on cars. In addition, to make driving safe they drop a lot of salt and sand, which just rusts your car. Because the country is a thin strip, everything is far away, and everything communications-related is expensive. And, a low population relative to the US means that a lot of companies just don’t offer services in Canada because it isn’t worth it to comply with Canadian laws just to get the same number of customers you could get from a single American state. I could keep going on and on.
Yet, despite all that, Canadians huddle up as close as possible to the border for warmth, but refuse to go any further south because that would mean entering the US. As bad as Canada’s climate is, putting up with that is an easy decision to make when the alternative is 'Murica.
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 2 minutes ago
You just described Minnesota, minus the part about the services.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
One minor correction. The reaaonCanadians don’t drive is not because the weather sucks, Canadians drive so much because our country refuses to build real transit or walkability. Hell half our country is going to court because a few of our provincial premiers want building bike lanes to be illegal. There are other countries with similar climates to Canada where people don’t need to extensively rely on their car to live their daily life.
Id also say that the biggest factor to cost of living is cost of housing, which is largely related to our cities making it nearly impossible to build any housing that isnt detached single family homes with minimum lot sizes and set back requirements. This also reinforces the car dependancy
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Meanwhile they have wheatfields 4 hours north of Edmonton,
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Canadian here, you summed it up perfectly. Everyone I know would agree with your points exactly. It’s a bit of a shit deal living here sometimes, but it’s infinitely better than being an American. Just look at the amount of disgust a Canadian tourist has when asked if they’re American when visiting overseas.
bstix@feddit.dk 6 hours ago
Canada should join the Nordic countries in a new Kalmar Union. Everything you mentioned is in common, unlike USA and EU, which both span different climates, and thus different ways of life.
Don’t get me wrong, I like both EU and the former USA, but I think there’s just more mutual ground in latitude than longitudes.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Only correction is that gas is a bit cheaper in the winter
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
We stand on guard.
Donkter@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Every Canadian knows that the secret forests of magical splendour begin 101 miles from the border.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
What exactly are you guarding? I figure there’s a reason not many people live outside of that area depicted.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Your instance saved you 😄
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 10 hours ago
Hell, the US is all they talk about here on lemmy. I’m not sure they don’t want to join either.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Kind of like all you would talk about is the festering boil in the middle of your face.
ikidd@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
How Eastern Canada and BC thinks Canada looks like.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Drives me nuts that Ontario is considered “Eastern Canada”
expatriado@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
when Chile goes to sleep
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
A mimir
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
No one lives in the Maritimes and Newfies are a figment of our imagination?
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Tbf, the Newfies I’ve met certainly feel like a figment of my imagination.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That’s most of my family and yes.
Zolidus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The implication of that map is skewed hard though. It’s only cause of Montreal, Toronto, S & SW ontario and Vancouver. 3 small spots compared to the size of the border, with 90% of the border population.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
John Candy tried to warn us. They’re preparing for an invasion!
TheSaddestMan@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Us? You-S-A tarriff’d the world!
<sincerity> I know you’re joking :P It’s legit a potential weakness actually. Trump could invade with very little resistance beyond the border, our population was too focused on trade by land and now we’ve had to reconsider our priorities. Also, the image neglects Edmonton’s existence. </sincerity>
Cort@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, and that whole TransCanada highway being a massive choke point
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
He have, it’s called Winnipeg. Also I love how it stops in the before the Quebec border.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Also, Edmonton
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
😞 Canada
😎 French Canada
SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 10 hours ago
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Its pretty cool city with great food and terminally bad traffic problems. Source: live there.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
This makes me wonder if NY drivers drive like the crazies on the 401 and gardiner
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They come south for less life threatening healthcare
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
There’s plenty of room for activities! Like… sledding.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 11 hours ago
And ice fishing in some spot which you've sledded to.
And freezing.
m3t00@piefed.world 9 hours ago
the rest is on fire. burning for decades. wind shifted of late
medem@lemmy.wtf 10 hours ago
Legitimate question: what may be the actual reason for this concentration? Is it weather? Natural resources? Is it political? On a related note: what is the reason that Canada as a whole bas so few people? It is still mindblowing for me that the entire country has less people than each of the world’s top 3 metropolitan areas
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Further south is warmer in winter
But I think a lot of it is economic. Port cities are where money changes hands, and we’ve effectively smeared them all along the boarder.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yea weather, but also the Canadian shield. There is just a thin layer of soil on top of the bedrock over a huge portion of Canada.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Also this map is fairly misleading. Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and the entire 4 maritime provinces are not here, and the main reason so much of the population is close to the border is that something like 1/3 of the population is clustered around the great lakes/st Laurence, because people came here by boat.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The great lakes area was the first area extensively settled and thus has the most developed cities. The great lakes area is also rich in fresh water and farmland.
Jarix@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
50% of our population is below the 49th parallel. 90% is within a half a day of the southern border
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’d argue the weather as the biggest one, at least for BC. Northern BC is absolutely beautiful but it’s cold af in the winter and burny as hell in the summer. If we’re talking far north in the territories, I know another issue is infrastructure because it’s much more difficult to build/get stuff up there. Though this meme misses a big part of the Indigenous/Inuit population that lives up there.
Also, this country is just fucking huge, like bigger than I think any of us realize. If our population were to spread out, it would be a very thin spread.
Batman@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They’ve played the game “Risk” so much they have unrealistic expectations of settlement patterns in real life
Seigest@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
It’s hard to build stuff in the shield.
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
One day my son, all this muskeg will be yours
simplejack@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The Canadian Musket
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
I have a friend who grew up in northern canada. It’s horror stories all the way down for my warm, balmy weather loving butt. Even my friend from minnesota scared me… I couldn’t believe the canadian terror.
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Image FTFY