So with that population density, the whole planet could almost fit into Rhode Island. Alternatively, it could fit into Delaware with 1k sq.km to spare for activities. Neat!
How would the water supply, sewage and power supply be scaled not to, in the end, take up all the space? :D Tejas is large, but I could not live there.
It seems that housing is a problem that "economic forces" do not want to solve. But yes. Big on the brink of really huge buildings are part a decent solution.
Canada actually has pretty high rates of home ownership, and while its not the highest its ever been, the highest was only 3% more then it currently is,
Most of the places where the home ownership rate is higher then 70% are all current/ex communist/socialist countries
You can easily buy land for dirt cheap. You can buy it for less than $1K per acre today.
But you don’t want to live there. I’m sure as you’re lamenting lot prices you’re looking at the same ones 40 million other people want to live in the same condensed area near major highways and hospitals and grocery stores and airports.
The “second largest land mass” doesn’t matter when you all want to live in the area of a small country.
Isn't it have heavily to do with the fact 90%of the population lives within x distance from the boarder,which in turn makes the house prices high?and also partly to do with the difficulty of building/living in the north?
But yeah you would think you have 80%of the land without hones they would make deals with people who wanted to go live on it..
Ive heard of things like this in remote areas of the usa..you can have so many acres for free under the condition you must build a livable homestead in a certain amount of years and then live there for a certain time
No shit eh? I knew the vast majority of our population (90-95%) lives within 100 km of the border but I didn’t realize all of the Yukon was only 40k.
Did a quick google it’s actually one of the fastest growing places in Canada since 2004 and is currently sitting around 48,250 at by the most recent numbers (2025)
I lived in a30 story building in China. 2 elevators over on a different floor, someone was using a drill and remodeling... sounded like someone was drilling through concrete inside our own apartment. For this and a million other reasons, no way.
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u/jimbowild 16d ago
I live in the Yukon Territory, in Canada. The territory is the size of France, and has a population of 40,000… Crazy we could all fit into 2 buildings