I feel like it’s 80% the expense. If most rock was like that everybody would be looking for boring sandstone.

The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.

TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.

Fucking mosquitos. They could probably survive Antarctica. Instead, if you go further north yet everything that eat them dies, and they grow endless and mutantly large. I’d love to see the territories but that bit gives me pause.

If you’re somewhere wooded, blackflies also get bad reviews.

No, that’s still a good few degrees north. Just the Canadian prairies.

TBF we only get a day or two worth of that here in a winter. There’s quite a lot of -20, though, and -15 isn’t even worth a remark.

No, Alberta. Unfortunately, my French isn’t good. C’est merde, pardon.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Quebec is more like here than southern Ontario or BC, though. And definitely the US or most of the EU.

TIL!

To avoid Google:

Northern Europe and bizarre statues, name a more iconic duo.

I’d guess people from monkey countries feel the same way about them impressing us. They’re in similar niches and everything.

Someone Japanese said you were taking too many pictures? Haha, that’s ironic given what they’re like abroad.

Hmm, is Antarctica bigger than the Sahara?

Climate stuff comes to mind. Big storms, it being sunny almost all the time, and -30C. There’s other climates that are similar, of course, but I guess most people don’t live in them, because visitors remark on it. Europeans tend to be gobsmacked by the amount of empty space there is between human structures, too.

A lot of pests people think are everywhere are just nowhere to be seen because of the cold. That’s more something that’s missing, though.

Free healthcare and French labeling, for the Americans. I’m not sure if they think the money is cool or just stupid.

Yes, the amount of ancient history anywhere across the pond is fascinating. You’re walking in the same place as people from books and movies. I guess that we’re writing somewhere near the beginning of the local historical record is interesting in it’s own way, but there’s just not as much to say about it.

It’s an island of farms. The economic and demographic statistics are predictably dire given that, too.

You get to vote 3 times, though.

Yeah, not sure what OP’s talking about. Any diet involving a reasonably fresh, large assortment of ingredients will keep you going until you die of old people stuff (maybe early, if it’s really that bad).

If you eat only hardtack or only rice, that’s when deficiencies become a concern. We’re really quite hearty animals.

Hmm, not specifying which one, I see. Granted; it’s always chicken fajita.

What do you mean by moderately popular? As far as I can tell nowhere on Lemmy is big enough for it to be a significant job yet. On larger platforms, it definitely can be.

and as we’ve seen people will throw shitfits over things as small as plastic straws.

That’s still depressing as hell, on both sides. One because they’re freaking out over slightly different straws, the other because it’s such a token gesture to plastics pollution that solves nothing.