03-16-2021, 05:24 PM
(03-16-2021, 03:15 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(03-15-2021, 11:16 PM)plam Wrote: Town sizes in NZ are weird. Greater Wellington is 542k but feels way bigger than KW.
It's the suburban nature of most North American cities. My parents live in a city of 240,000 in Europe, but the urban area is much larger than that of Kitchener and Waterloo added together. It's easily three-plus square kilometres of city (mostly mid-rise buildings with retail components, plus substantial parks), excluding fully residential areas and the commercial zones outside of that.
NZ has all the same problems as in Canada though to different degrees. Including sprawl. So that accounts for things a bit but not that much.
Overall, probably a combination of factors: being close to Toronto is also a thing, but I think that Hamilton NZ is similarly close to Auckland but feels large for its size.