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Its kind of crazy that Canada now has the same population as California, and is 25 times bigger physically. Whereas Canada's economy is 50% smaller than California's (3T to 2T).

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Yet we still manage to compete on housing prices!

In Vancouver and Toronto. Even then, SF house prices are still much higher when you consider the exchange rate.

Also crazy how California has over 500% more people incarcerated than Canada with the same population and almost double the poverty rate with a larger economy.

Hard to break the law when the nearest person is over the horizon. /s

Only a small part of Canada is livable it's quite a small ;) - and over 50% of the population live below the border: http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ca...

Livable != developed At least 100x more of the country than has been developed is livable, just undeveloped. I’ve driven the length of the country four times in the last three years and I assure you there are vast stretches of perfectly livable land that simply hasn’t been developed because the market demand has been in major cities and expands outward slowly.

Did you know that Canada has land farther south than parts of California?

I'm guessing Windsor (42.3149° N), but CA's northern latitude is almost 42° N exactly, so it turns out to be Middle Island instead (41.40° N).

I was skeptical, but it turns out you're right! According to Wikipedia, the Northernmost point in California is 42 degrees north, and the Southernmost point in Canada is Middle Island, which is 41.7 degrees north [1], or about 0.3 degrees farther south of the Northernmost point in California.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_Cana...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_U.S....

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