I think it’s their crazy common law system.
Nah. If we take the US as an example they have rampant NIMBYism, a suburbanism ideology that isn’t sustainable financially (or ecologically or socially, for that matter), and rather strict zoning, with the worst stemming from the city of Euclid, and thus being named “euclidean zoning”.
If you’re up for some videos, then StrongTowns, CityNerd and NotJustBikes all talk about this at length.
Yes between the low density and refusal to build transit, which go hand in hand, suburban car dependant planning has destroyed the livibility and affordability of many cities.
This from the thn Australian Prime Minister in 1972. We did the exact opposite and now have a 2nd rate American system
The other way you could interpret this is that so many people want to live in these amazing countries that it’s outpacing home construction. I would like to see this compared to net migration and/or population growth.
In Canada that’s what it was. They seriously curtailed immigration with the new government, which is starting to lower home prices. It’s not sunshine and rainbows though, we needed those immigrants to plug the labour hole the boomers left. Coupled with the tariffs and market incertainty, Canada is in an unofficial recession already.
No interest in letting in more tradespeople to buff up the construction industry?
Apparently not. Personally I thought they should have tried to get more tradespeople, but here we are.
More tradespeople to build firetrap bungalow sprawls is how we get bankrupt munis like Detroit and not sustainable walkable subway utopias like Manhattan.
You really think that’s what’s happening?
How do people come up with such ridiculous drivel…
Yes, that’s definitely part of it. It’s not perfect, but if you think the English speaking world is a disaster you should try living in a developing country.
I have done mission work in Africa and South America, their family cultures are more intact than the west. Sure the governments are more fucked but we’re heading there at a rapid pace
But we don’t have the family unity or social cohesion to band together against fascism right now, so in many ways our situation is worse than any but the most warlord aggrieved countries.
Net migration rate is 3 per 1000 people in the US and 3.2 in the UK. Germany has a net migration rate of 1.8 per 1000, France 1.1, and every other Western European country has at least 3.5. Also Germany and France both have a higher percentage of their population being immigrants than both the US and UK. So that’s definitively not it.
What’s up with this graph, it’s nice that they went back in time from 1995 too but since they’re stacked from there you can’t know which lines belong to which individual country. Remains interesting to see that two distinct blocks formed over time. I guess Brits will feel some extra bregret watching this.
I hate that some of the graphs are unlabeled.
Looks like Germany and France share 6 lines
And there are at least five if not six pink lines. One ends near “W Europe” and two appear to be “Canada.”
