I’ve deleted and redrafted this several times now… but am I unreasonable for being weirded out and a bit offended by how out of touch rich-and-powerful-people journalism is? Canada, like Australia, is soaked in blood. This is just public image laundry for a country with the same genocide cops and resource extraction monstrosities as all the other colonies, and I’m guessing most of the people reading a niche link aggregator aren’t really the target audience.
If things like this are going to try and memory hole the crimes of a state, we should conscientiously memory hole crappy fluff pieces like this. Who’s moving to Canada? Who has the ability to initiate infrastructure projects or run funding requests up the political ladder?
If nothing else, just as a personal request. I just spent a long time trying to stay calm and articulate (or relative to my original state upon reading this) because this really made my blood boil.
I mean, If you’re only only going to have five cities, you can concentrate on doing them right /s
real answer: Because the majority of their cities are in the Midwest
Because they don’t consider how much it costs to live there. /thread
I wouldn’t live in any of them. 1. They’re cities. 2. Winter(especially there) is a bitch
Whoever wrote this has never lived in that kind of winter. I have. Eff that. Makes those places a zero, from the start
I wouldn’t live in any of them. 1. They’re cities
Maybe a list of most livable cities isn’t for you then.
Good point! 🤣
Winter is really mild in Vancouver and for the past 15 years it hasn’t been that bad in Toronto either.
Good luck affording housing here though.
Oh yeah, Vancouver really gives northern Siberia a run for its money during the winter. Human beings just aren’t built to survive one or two days of snow every couple years. Best you stay far away and live somewhere pleasant, like rural Texas.
You want to bet he also lives in a city, too?
In my experience, time these “cities bad I’d never live in them!” types, the ones who brag about living in the countryside, usually live a 15 minute + traffic highway commute from a small city that they entirely rely on to function day to day. They just live in suburbs or “exurbs” that would not function without the nearby town’s urban residents.
It’s frustrating how many people cannot comprehend that there is a whole spectrum of urban life from the major skyrise metropolises of the world to a small town’s main street, all of which are cities and all of which benefit from policies that create mixed-use, walkable, human-centric neighborhoods.
I always find it painfully eye-roll-inducing when anyone claims they live the rural life while surrounded by metropolitan infrastructure like municipal water/sewer, highways, fire protection, parks/rec/landscaping service, and all that kind of stuff.
Increasingly they live on what they can buy at a dollar store next to the freeway. That’s not any better though.
Those are fairly mild winters dude, have you ever lived north of Tennessee?
“I have” read much before getting all worked up?
Damn, I just remembered I literally have not been north of Tennessee. And I’ve seen snow only a handful of times.
It’s always funny to see other urbanists focus so heavily on how winters make cycling hard when winter is basically the only time I’m not drowning in the hot, humid air of the US south.
Lol.
A friend who moved from Alaska to Florida said he likes that “you don’t have to shovel heat” hahaha
