Is it getting crowded where you live?

yes so many homes being built ,new estates but no new school or Doctors , an appointment takes 2 to 3 weeks now , and in the rush hour , its made it difficult to cross from one side of the road to the other .. when a new estate was tagged on to my road , i wrote and asked for more crossings but it fell on deaf ears , flooding as become a problem in some areas , because they are building on flood plains .
 

We live in Toronto the largest population center in Canada, with a density of 4,100 people per square kilometer, a total population of 2,832,718 people, and a total of 2,262,473 dwellings in the city. About 57 percent of present day Torontonians were born in another country.

On the national level, Canada's population density is 3.96 people per square kilometer, while the population density of the USA is 34.77 people per square kilometer. Canada is the second largest political land mass in the world, only Russia is bigger. JIMb.
 
Where I live, not really but.... Some developer wants to build a condo community about 2 miles up the road. Each would be up and down stairs. That will impact the traffic flow negatively for the whole road. For that reason, the town voted it down.

Then they re-applied saying it would be elderly housing or over 55 only, so then the town said yes. Now, no changes were made to the floor plans. Nobody builds elderly housing with the bedrooms upstairs! Grrrr.
 
Yeah, we're seeing our old village "downtowns" razed and replaced by gentrified multistory retail and luxury retirement condos above trendy shops. "Protected wetlands" drained, filled, and built up with walled McMansion subdivisions nobody here can afford.

Old-time natives have mostly long since moved a lot further out in the sticks and into more outlying towns and villages. Even with concrete-paved bike paths, many roads have been cut from 4 to 3 lanes now with additional parallel bike paths on each side that almost nobody uses.

Kids used to take "Indian trails" to the mall through the scrub-treed verges at the borders of what used to be farmland. The trails are gone, most of the trees ripped out, and now there are wide paved "bike paths" with fancy bridges and railings... that almost nobody uses because malls are dying.

And the tax rates and property assessments keep climbing. I got a realtor mailing just Monday that shows the average home price estimate rose 15% again.
 
No overcrowding here.
My back yard and my front yard

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dilettante said:
Yeah, we're seeing our old village "downtowns" razed and replaced by gentrified multistory retail and luxury retirement condos above trendy shops. "Protected wetlands" drained, filled, and built up with walled McMansion subdivisions nobody here can afford.

Old-time natives have mostly long since moved a lot further out in the sticks and into more outlying towns and villages. Even with concrete-paved bike paths, many roads have been cut from 4 to 3 lanes now with additional parallel bike paths on each side that almost nobody uses.

Kids used to take "Indian trails" to the mall through the scrub-treed verges at the borders of what used to be farmland. The trails are gone, most of the trees ripped out, and now there are wide paved "bike paths" with fancy bridges and railings... that almost nobody uses because malls are dying.

And the tax rates and property assessments keep climbing. I got a realtor mailing just Monday that shows the average home price estimate rose 15% again.
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same here with the damn bike paths.. on already narrow road which have already millions of vehicles to cope with... Instead of making cycle tracks, they steal half the already congested road, for the use of a few cycles while tons of gaz guzzling engines struggle in long queues created by narrower roads.. In 2021 London became the worlds' most congested city.... so what did they do, they made it worse by chopping a 1/3 or half of the road to accomodate Cyclists..

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from the BBC
London has become the world's most congested city, new analysis shows.
Drivers in the capital will lose an average of 148 hours stuck in jams across the whole of 2021, according to traffic information supplier Inrix.
That is just 1% down on pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, a much smaller decline than many other major cities.
Paris was second in the global ranking for most congestion (140 hours lost), followed by Brussels (134), Moscow (108) and New York (102).
Last year, London was ranked only the 16th most congested city.
 
Town has only so much acreage, no high rises and a school system everyone wants their kids in. Raw land has quadrupled in the eight years we have been here. Old families are watching trends like hawks. City planing meetings are crowded. As long as SO keeps working we are set.
 
In reality, town I live in now has a population of 7800. However, we live on a dead end road on the outskirts. We now have a little over an acre and a half, so, for this area, it's kind of rural.
Not as rural as my Arkansas property was where I had 38 acres on a dead end road and the population was 465, but, not bad for here.
 
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