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[-] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If you think of distance in kilometers, houses in square feet, buying vegetables in kilograms, and your weight in pounds, you could be Canadian.

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

I think of my weight in kilograms. I have tried to move to thinking my home in sq metres but I haven’t really had reason to make the conversion. I had not yet decided to go metric everywhere yet when I bought my place so I have had no real reason to.

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago

Square metres is pretty easy if you grew up with square feet, the convention factor is close enough to 10. When I was on the market for a home, I talked to my agent exclusively in m². Even though she's really not used to it, we communicated pretty well.