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Originally Posted by Ricopedra
My hometown as it stands, is a cancer on the face of the prairies. My hope is to fashion it into a sexy European mole.
Because you don't need as much shit as you think you do, and Europeans already know this. You are going to die soon, so stop buying shit and enjoy your time without so much debt instead. It's liberating! Just have a good place to live.
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As much as there are some lessons to be learned from European cities, the people in Canada and Europe are completely different. I lived in Austria for a bit and there you could between neighbouring towns and villages in 15 minutes. The agriculture industry there consists of smaller grain farms and minor animal operations so many farmers need less land.
In Saskatchewan farm kids move from the city and are used to driving everywhere because of necessity. When the nearest high school is a 45 minute drive on gravel roads away, riding your bike or walking is simply not feasible.
My brothers and I grew up on a farm yet none of us own a truck and we all bike or walk to work. Unfortunately we are the exception and most people from farm backgrounds cannot wrap their minds around active or public transportation, and find it even harder to move from a 3,000 acre back yard to a 500 square foot apartment.
Saskatoon will never look like a European city because it isn't populated by Europeans.
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