I've done a ton of biking in my area over the last 15 years, and it's been depressing seeing how much former farmland and unused wild area is getting gobbled up by the fucking McMansions and "high 700s" McTownhouses. The townhouses are especially sad - like, you're out in the middle of fucking nowhere (no town in sight) and yet you're jammed in with neighbors on both walls?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

47 percent of the country is unoccupied.

[–] Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

Unoccupied land is otherwise called "nature" and is quite useful for a lot of things.

[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Efficiency doesn't care how big your country is, sprawl would be as inefficient in Cyprus as in Russia, you spread your services and infrastructure over an unnecessarily large area, to huge economic and environmental cost, and forcing people to rely on a car to move around