01-25-2022, 05:43 PM
(01-25-2022, 04:12 PM)jeffster Wrote:(01-25-2022, 03:58 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Thanks, I appreciate that. It is a great place for cycling, but it's erm...not just bikes...so to speak. The urban design of the cities and towns is much better. That (and infrastructure) is what enables cycling to the degree they have, and it's what makes the cities so much more livable, and I hope, a great place to raise children. Five years ago, I'd have been toting protected bike lanes as the only reason for going, but biking is just a gateway drug to urban design and livable cities.
Yeah, hopefully the transition will be smooth, certainly no rockier than the last two years have been I hope.
It's an area with a lot of history, which helps it a lot more than around here. Compared to cities in the Netherlands, we're just starting out. Amsterdam has been around for more than 700 years, for example, with a solid population for the last 400 years.
Either way, great place to pick. I know you'll love it.
I know we don't agree with everything, but I have to be a little bit jealous with your choice (if I could, I'd go there too)...so again, congrats.
While this is definitely true, it is also the case that there are also cities and suburbs in the Netherlands which were built a century after cities in Canada. For example, the cities of Lelystad and Almere are both on land reclaimed in the 50s (give or take a decade), and the suburb we are looking at right now was built in the last 10 years.
In these cases as well, the developments are vastly more walkable and livable than here. It's amazing and frustrating how badly designed even our new developments continue to be.
Not that we want to do any more sprawl, and we can do lots of infill and "repairs" on our existing communities, but I have absolutely no idea how to approach solving our planning limitations.
That being said, thanks for confidence. We don't always agree, but I feel this is always a place where we can discuss serious issues.