[thematrixturtle]

> Because when someone starts talking about rural living in the US and Canada, Finnish experience has no parallel.

The Finnish municipality of Inari is over 17,000 sq.km, in the same ballpark as the entire country of Israel, with a population of 7,000. This gives it a density of 0.47 people/km2, four times less than Manitoba.

[bombcar]

Average population density can be misleading, especially if all 7,000 of those people basically live in one town.

[thematrixturtle]

They don't. But for what it's worth, basically all Manitobans live in Winnipeg.