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27 million people live on a continent the size of North America! Australia’s geography and climate plays into the housing crisis. We have concentrated our popu
by sunpazed 3y ago
27 million people live on a continent the size of North America!
Australia’s geography and climate plays into the housing crisis. We have concentrated our population density in only a dozen or so locations (ie; major cities like Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane) as Australia is only habitable at scale along the coast.
Australia has also doubled in population size over the last 40 years without corresponding investment, putting significant pressure on the housing market.
- jojobas 3y agoWe also have a desert almost the size of North America. The population centres crystallized around gold mining and other non-urban activities back in a day, you can't just will another Melbourne into existence.
- sarchertech 3y ago>27 million people live on a continent the size of North America What? North American is more than 3x the size of Australia.
- Grimburger 3y agoI'm seeing 7.6m km^2 vs 9.8m km^2?
- mgbmtl 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America 24,709,000 km^2
- sarchertech 3y agoThat’s the size of the US, not North America.
- sowbug 3y ago> North [America] is more than 3x the size of Australia. A generously loose interpretation of the original claim is that the continental US, rather than North America, is about the same size as Australia. Which is true.
- sarchertech 3y agoThe sizes match, but I’ve never heard someone use the North America to refer to the US. Someone else replied to the comment with “we also have a dessert almost as large as North America as well”.
- ix101 3y ago> Australia is only habitable at scale along the coast Actually with the 8th biggest coastline in the world, we could probably double the population without going very far in-land.