Bloggers live in an endless variety of places. Having shared the drone footage of my birthplace village, I wandered off looking at more drone imagery.
Here's a drone video of the suburban area I live in nowadays.The film does not show our house but it takes you from the Banner Cross area right down Ecclesall Road to the Hunter's Bar roundabout. It is all very familiar territory to me and the footage reminds me just how many people live in this district and how tightly packed together many of the houses are. This is an overpopulated country and in our cities the majority of citizens don't get much space:-
Sherwood Park is a suburb of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. It is where the author of "MyLifeSoFar" resides. She is Nurse Lily or LilyCedar but she has several other pen names. Bloggers may have different reasons for keeping their true identities partly hidden. Sherwood Park is modern and spacious - its growth hardly hindered by past developments. It's very different from my home suburb to the south of the city of Sheffield (pop.584,000). Edmonton is almost twice as big with a population of 981,000.
Finally, we come to the north side of The Sheep's Head Peninsula in south west Ireland. It is somewhere around here that Dave, the author of "Northsider", resides. Perhaps Dave will let us know in the comments that follow this blogpost. The location looks so beautiful but to live in such a place presents special challenges - including the business of accessing basic services such as public transport, healthcare and supermarkets.
If you have found the drone videos interesting, perhaps you might find drone footage of your own city, village or region by searching within YouTube. Why not give it a try?
Generally drones can't be flown in cities in Australia without a Remote Air Pilot Licence and permits.
ReplyDeleteThat is not to say they aren't flown illegally.
Surely citizens of Australia abide by their country's laws!
DeleteYou have startled me, Mr. Pudding. I have always thought of Sheffield, England, as being a fairly antiquarian place of leafy glades and men slowly making their way with their canes along tree-lined lanes. I was amazed at the traffic in "your city" but not so much as the quantity as the fact that they all seemed to be driving on the wrong side of the street!
ReplyDeleteWe drive on the left side as we are lefties. America prefers the right.
DeleteEstate agents often use drone footage to show off an area. I love watching drone videos. As Andrew says, a lot done illegally.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the Irish video had been made for an estate agent.
DeleteThat first one has me dizzy-eyed. All those rows and rows of packed together houses! And you live in there? Northsider's area looks so much better, but perhaps in another century or two would sadly be more populated. Sherwood Park looks very spacious.
ReplyDeleteYes. We live close by. Northsider's area is I think different - not better.
DeleteI found footage of a drone flight over my area!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXigmmgo1kA
I couldn't catch a glimpse of my place but I may have been able to if I slowed the video down. The footage ends just about 150m from our place.
My biggest observation is of Ecclesall Road is that there isn't a lot of green.
Down at the bottom of the hill you see the eastern part of Endcliffe Park. Somehow that seemed to be the wrong link to your drone video.
DeleteI did see the lovely big park at the end
DeleteI'll try again with the link
https://youtu.be/el2xIIgprUg
Your district looks more spacious than ours though of course we are seeing it from a lower level drone.
DeleteThe Greater Stuttgart region is at least as densely populated and heavily industrialised as your part of England, Neil. I am lucky in that the view from my kitchen is across gardens, but really no building is further away from my house than a few yards. That is one reason why I need those frequent walks under wide open skies.
ReplyDeleteAnd what does it all come down to? Overpopulation, the number one cause of almost all our problems as a species, and yet hardly ever addressed.
Shhhh! We are not meant to refer to overpopulation. It is the elephant in the room.
DeleteThanks YP. All three were interesting to watch for a glimpse into other lives.
ReplyDeleteI have just found this one of my home town, although it concentrates on the north shore so we are not there...
https://youtu.be/VIgO5U0Nw24
I watched a different drone video of Ramsey but the quality was quite poor so that is why I did not include it in my blogpost.
DeleteYou've chosen well YP, with your three very different locations. The one of Sheffield shows just how tightly packed an island the UK is - all cities are just as crowded and heavily trafficked. Edmonton shows how much space there is in Canada, and Ireland looks positively uninhabited.
ReplyDeleteThe only drone I've seen here was one which I felt invaded privacy. I watched it hover close the windows of the house next door, come towards mine, but moved on when it spotted me in the garden, and dropped down to hover around the windows of the houses below. Difficult to know if it was just someone just playing, but several houses in the area were burgled a few days later, including the one next door.
Drones can be used for sinister purposes but mostly they help us to get a different perspective on the world.
DeleteThanks so mentioning my blog YP and where we live. It's a nice place on a nice day and vice versa. If you want to get a way for a walking holiday it's excellent or to paint a picture or write like myself. It's got a skeleton bus service on Tuesday and Thursday mornings taking you around the peninsula to town. But there is no every day bus service, car dependency is high, jobs are hard to find, dormitory housing, lots of holiday homes, Lidl and Supervalu are the two supermarkets in Bantry.
ReplyDeleteDo you live in the footage I showed or do you live to the east or west of what the drone covered?
DeleteI think I spotted Clint parked on a double yellow line.
ReplyDeleteEver been to Specsavers?
DeleteEast. Nearer to town.
ReplyDeleteI will hover over your place with Google imagery - looking for Portugal. Don't be surprised if you find yourself being bombed with Yorkshire puddings!
DeleteI prefer satellite to drone. It allows me to go along at my own pace.
ReplyDeleteI thought you might prefer snail!
DeleteAlexandria, Virginia at 1:37 I live in one of the tall buildings on the hill.https://youtu.be/NhdIx2ee1ZI
ReplyDeleteAlexandria looks like a great place to live. Is there no poverty there?
DeleteYesterday August and I had a fairly long conversation about population density. He wanted to know what the largest states in America were and what the smallest one was. Rhode Island, of course, but it is one of the most densely populated. "What does that mean?" he asked me. The boy wants to KNOW! I love these conversations. I can just hear the whirl of his computer brain as it takes in new information and integrates it with what he already knows. I suppose that a little drone imagery would have helped explain the concept.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHbSg3FUOpU
ReplyDeleteThe end music was rather irrigating.
DeleteNow you have everyone heading to YouTube to check out drone videos from our own towns. Interesting!
ReplyDeleteGives them something to do Ellen!
DeleteYou've just sent me down a half-hour Internet rabbit hole. THANKS A LOT!
ReplyDeleteStick a couple of long hairy ears on your head and you would look like a rabbit.
DeleteWell I went to YouTube and found Todmorden, centred around the park, and put it on my blog. What struck me was the narrowness of the valley and the green space for recreational use, when perhaps building more houses might have been an answer. But your home drone images shows how crowded this side of Yorkshire is.
ReplyDeleteAt ground level my neighbourhood doesn't seem so crowded but from above you realise just how little private space most houses have. We are packed in like bloody sardines!
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