In article , heidigraw{at}shaw.ca says...
>
> >"Andre Lieven"  wrote in message
> >news:ctec4g$cc6$1{at}theodyn.ncf.ca...
> >
> > "Heidi Graw" (heidigraw{at}shaw.ca) writes:
> >>>"Andre Lieven" 
wrote in message
> >>>news:ctdnf9$qf0$1{at}theodyn.ncf.ca...
> >>>
> >> (snip)
> >>
> >>>> Heidi wrote:
> >>>> No, we are quite diverse...we live in that
"salad bowl."  We have
> >>>> different
> >>>> languages, different customs, different ideas...If we
happen upon a
> >>>> like-minded Canadian...Wow!  What a surprise!  We can
even avoid people
> >>>> altogether. Neighbours can be hundreds of miles apart!  ;-)
> >>
> >>> Andre wrote:
> >>> Not been to Toronto or Ottawa lately, eh ?
>
> >> Heidi wrote:
> >> I wrote:  Neighbours *can be* hundreds of miles apart.  In BC that is a
> >> fact.
>
> >Andre wrote:
> > And, most of Canada *isn't* BC. Thus, you are... wrong.

Andre is right in that "most of Canada *isn't* BC."   However, he is
wrong if he means that in most of Canada  people have neighbors
closer than 100meters distant.   Most CANADIANS have neighbors
closer than 100 meters.  However, if  you randomly plopped your
house down somewhere in the boundaries of Canada,  it is very
likely that your nearest neighbor could be dozens of miles away.
It's also likely that you would need a snowmobile to visit
for a major part of the year!   ;-)   After all,  about 1/2 of
Canada has a population density of about one person per 10
square kilometers!  Only in Alaska, does the US get that
sparsely populated---although about 1/2 the area of the lower
48 states has a population density of less than 20 people per
square mile.  There are a lot of farms and ranches in the Western
US where the nearest neighbor is 5 or 10 miles distant.
>
> No I'm not.  Neighbours *can be* hundreds of miles apart.  Just 'cause most
> of the population chooses to congregate doesn't take away from the truth
> that they can be away from other people should they decide to do that.
>
> >
> > But, in keeping with your Festering Femmeroid Flummery, that makes for
> > a perfect record... AbZero.
>
> As opposed to your festering mascuroidal diatribes?   You've established
> that perfect record, Andrezero.  I can play your game, too.
>
> >> We only have about 4 million people living in this huge province.
>
> > Andre wrote:
> > So ? I dare say my friends in Vancouver, BC, have neighbours who live
> > not so hunderds of miles apart.
>
> Yes, but Vancouver is not BC.  Vancouver is a very tiny part of BC.  Take a
> gander at a map of BC sometime.
>
> >> People
> >> in Canada *can* and do live hundreds of miles apart from one another.
> >
> > Sure: They're not " neighbours "...
>
> Andre...if I were to take a direct course from between 123 and 122 latitudes
> at just above the 49th N parallel and head towards 60 N. longitute between
> the 127th and 126th lat, I'd finally meet another person.  If I were to take
> that route, that person would be my next door neighbour although a huge
> distance seperates us.  There is nothing behind my property except for
> wilderness.  To the east my next-door neighbour lives 300 ft away, to the
> west 150 ft.  To the south that neighbour lives half a mile away.  And,
> going northward at a slight angle, my next nearest neighbour is incredibly
> far away.  ;-)
>
> > None of which makes them " neighbours "...
>
> Sure it does...that person way up north with nobody between us makes him/her
> my neighbour.
>
> Heidi
>
Mark Borgerson




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