Do you live in a tourist hot spot?

[PomBstard]

GetCarter said:

227bhp said:

A good topic for conversation, but to get right to the heart of the matter there are now too many people living in the UK.

Population density of 1.4 people per square kilometre here, so not everywhere in the UK is overcrowded.

Apparently Australia is also overpopulated. The world's sixth largest country has to cram 25 million people into just 7,692,000 sq km - conditions are appalling...

[Mexman]

Read that back to yourself.
25 million, that is not a small number is it?
Agree with 227bhp though, the world population is too great now, Europe and Asia particularly.

[berlintaxi]

Mexman said:

Read that back to yourself.
25 million, that is not a small number is it?

Relative to the size of Australia....are you for real?

[GetCarter]

berlintaxi said:

Mexman said:

Read that back to yourself.
25 million, that is not a small number is it?

Relative to the size of Australia....are you for real?

Indeed. Out of interest it's 32 times the size of the UK with much less than half the population.

[PomBstard]

GetCarter said:

berlintaxi said:

Mexman said:

Read that back to yourself.
25 million, that is not a small number is it?

Relative to the size of Australia....are you for real?

Indeed. Out of interest it's 32 times the size of the UK with much less than half the population.

Think twice the population of Metro London in an area 2.5 times the size of India.

Or a population density of 3 people/sq km compared to the world land average of 52/sq km, and the UK at 272/sq km.

But, that doesn't stop many over here saying how packed and crowded the whole country is. And on a nice day, with many of the large cities being close to beaches, those beaches get bloody busy. I've been to Bondi Beach on Christmas Day, and it needs to be seen to be believed.

Edited to show Bondi Beach, around 10am Christmas Day 2003...

Edited by PomBstard on Monday 29th April 12:54

[rustyuk]

Someone pulled up outside my house last week blocking my drive.

They jumped out of their camper van and started taking pictures of the house across the road whilst the owners where sat in their garden having a BBQ.

[bloomen]

PomBstard said:

But, that doesn't stop many over here saying how packed and crowded the whole country is. And on a nice day, with many of the large cities being close to beaches, those beaches get bloody busy. I've been to Bondi Beach on Christmas Day, and it needs to be seen to be believed.

People congregate where the infrastructure is built and the climate is bearable and it doesn't sound like there's much of either in Australia. There's a whole lot of nothing beyond it.

It's like saying the Maldives have all the space you need as long you live underwater.

[ElectricSoup]

GetCarter said:

berlintaxi said:

Mexman said:

Read that back to yourself.
25 million, that is not a small number is it?

Relative to the size of Australia....are you for real?

Indeed. Out of interest it's 32 times the size of the UK with much less than half the population.

Australia's problem is availability of water, not availability of land.

The UK is not overpopulated, but badly managed, and infrastructure/public service investment is poor because we all vote to keep taxes low instead.

I grew up in Windsor which is rammed with tourists year round, I now live in Reading which is rammed with people who live in Reading (and have to drive through it to cross Thames bridges) all year round. Plenty of countryside to retreat in to on my doorstep however, and I'm often to be found breathing the air of West Wales and Scotland by means of having a car and/or using public transport.