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You make it sound like "under populated" or smaller population is a bad thing
Welcome to Australia, a country the size of the continental US and only two cities where you can see urban living, sophistication and culture (melbourne, sydney), everything else is emptiness, sheep, snakes, desert and heat!!!
Welcome to Canada, the local temperature is cloudy and 9 degrees below zero, enjoy your spring!!! enjoy our sophisticated cities (Edmonton, Winnipeg, medicine hat, deep hollow) thanks but no thanks!
Welcome to the UK, be ready to spend all of your savings on menial things like public transportation, food because its outrageously expensive, the local weather is 10 degrees and rainy (enjoy the summer!), the local options for food (eeeh forget it), the best thing to do outside london is drink.... oh and never mind the rude, cold, arrogant unattractive locals!
Welcome to NZ, enjoy the fact you're in a small but beautiful island in the middle of nowhere FAR FAR FAR FAR FAAAR away from any other place on this planet, and a population that fits in a neighborhood of a big european city!!!
Well the Koppen-Geiger climate classification is well respected and takes the guess work out of one's 'experience' - You should read more about it rather than just dismiss it.. Anyway according to it - Australia has one more colour than Canada so is this something to get all bent out of shape over - prolly not.
Another thing to consider - Canada is significantly larger than Australia - you'd have to add another country the size of Algeria or India to Australia to match the size of Canada - point being that you may need to travel longer distances to experience climate variation.. So while I respect your 'experience' - which is really just well i've been throughout Australia and i've been to Canada \i'll go with Koppen-Geiger over it with all due respect which has the countries very close in climactic variation whereas Canada experiences more extreme temperature variations.
It depends on whether we are talking about climate zones or weather over a given year.
Australia has climate zones (year round tropical for example) which Canada does not have.
But most any weather you can have in Australia during a given year you will have in Canada for periods of decent length in several Canadian locations during a given 12-month period.
Summer in Sydney features basically the same conditions as in Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal.
Weather-wise, there isn't anything a Sydneysider can do in his backyard that I can't do in mine on a typical summer day.
But yeah, there are more days in Sydney where those summerlike activities are possible. On that I agree.
On the other hand, if we are talking about weather variety and potential activities, in my backyard you can ice skate in February and then just over two months later be swimming in warm sunshine in the exact same spot.
Welcome to Australia, a country the size of the continental US and only two cities where you can see urban living, sophistication and culture (melbourne, sydney), everything else is emptiness, sheep, snakes, desert and heat!!!
Welcome to Canada, the local temperature is cloudy and 9 degrees below zero, enjoy your spring!!! enjoy our sophisticated cities (Edmonton, Winnipeg, medicine hat, deep hollow) thanks but no thanks!
Welcome to the UK, be ready to spend all of your savings on menial things like public transportation, food because its outrageously expensive, the local weather is 10 degrees and rainy (enjoy the summer!), the local options for food (eeeh forget it), the best thing to do outside london is drink.... oh and never mind the rude, cold, arrogant unattractive locals!
Welcome to NZ, enjoy the fact you're in a small but beautiful island in the middle of nowhere FAR FAR FAR FAR FAAAR away from any other place on this planet, and a population that fits in a neighborhood of a big european city!!!
The US offers better food, tons of diversity, great cities, beautiful landscapes, all sorts of weather
Canada is a version of the cold northern US with a tenth of its population
Australia is an underpopulated desert with 5 cities
UK is rainy, cold, boring, expensive, bad food, far from beautiful people, nothing to do outside london
sorry for being honest
Better food? You do know the standards are lower in the U.S. on a lot of things. I've mentioned this before, but what can be labelled chocolate in the U.S. can't be in the U.K., and Canada for example. Pink slime? Bromate in bread? BGH in dairy etc. Better food, please.
Yes the U.S. has some great cities to visit, but I would argue that all these countries do. I'd put any U.S. city up against, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Same with landscapes.
I think you're trying to push buttons, or have very little real life experience. To say that there is nothing to do outside of London in the U.K. proves that. Only someone with very little knowledge or experience would say that. Although, the other reason could be less flattering, you could be the type that like books with pictures and are bored easily.
I love everyone's exaggerated views on everything. Has anyone here visited all the anglo countries?
I've been to three out of the four. Australia is in my future. I do however have friends from Australia who visit Canada and we are in touch a lot. That gives me a bit of an idea of what life is like there, since they live in Sydney ( originally from Hobart ) but travel often within Australia.
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