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Originally Posted by jammies
I don't think he does, and it's bigger economically because there are more people, which is an effect of immigration and not a cause. Well, I guess it's a feedback effect to some extent, where more immigration = more people = more opportunities = more immigration and so on. But the original reason the USA had more people is because the climate all down the east coast made it easy to settle in the US, whereas Canada's east coast was cold and barren and the only really good accessible land was in the St. Lawrence valley. Then as time went on, Canada was settled in a thin strip of mild (relatively) climate along the border and the USA was more-or-less completely occupied
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Population size, economy size, average waist size, pretty much every way except by actual land, the US is bigger, I think was the point.
And yes that is why, the weather was warmer in the eastern US and down through the south and thus, easier to settle... In the 1600's, when you had to chop wood and dry meat to survive the winter. These are NHL hockey players. They go from their 3 million dollar house, to their $100,000 car, to their state of the art training complex/stadium. Or to their team jet. The life of an NHL hockey player is pretty comfortable no matter what city he plays in I think. Detroit is a literal hole, yet attracts big name players. Why? Because they win.
(And yes I know Detroit has "nice areas" every city has "nice areas". The richest postal code in Canada is barely west of Calgary.)