MIT economist believes U.S. is shifting to be more similar to developing nations

Re:MIT economist believes U.S. is shifting to be more simila... by earlyriser on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:26AM (#14394330)

Canada is bigger and with just 30 million people and the infrastructure is good. I live in a small city of 30k and sometimes I'm surprised how deteriorated the infrastructure is in big cities like Montreal (I also lived there for some years).

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Re:MIT economist believes U.S. is shifting to be more simila... by ojbyrne on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:42PM (#14395007)

Having lived in both Canada and the US, it's a reasonable counter-argument, but I'm not sure "bigger" is really applicable to this argument. Most of Canada is empty, the population lives on a narrow strip of land near the US border. And having driven most of the trans-Canada, I'm not really convinced the infrastructure is good.

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Re:MIT economist believes U.S. is shifting to be more simila... by accountyaccount on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:18PM (#14395305)

I'd argue that majority of Canada essentially lives on the equivilant of an US coastline. The US population is larger by a factor of 10 and while we have population hubs, our overall population is less centralized than Canada.

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