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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by alibarber on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:15AM (#28574357)
Objectively the population density of Helsinki [1] is half that of London [2] - and according to google, a tenth of that of Paris.

Subjectively after living in both Helsinki and London it feels like Helsinki is even less crowded. I would say that there are fewer people who commute in to commercial areas from outside of the city than in London, and the commercial areas such as offices are generally a lot less dense, newer, and more spread out.

[1] https://www.hel.fi/hel2/tietokeskus/julkaisut/pdf/19_06_14_H... [2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by maxerickson on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:41AM (#28575761)
Yeah, it's still not 'very low'. The population density of the town I live in, which is not 'very low', is ~400 per square km. The county, which is denser than most of the area of the US, is 12 per square km.
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