Population density on terraformed world

I had decided that my biotech world was terraformed, but not an easy place to live. Soil was a new and ongoing process, rainfall and climate temperature stopped being controlled ten thousand years ago and everything got colder than planned, people were getting by but not very numerous.
I also said it looks like Britain, because cheap.

But the UK is the second most densely populated country in the European Union, and 53rd in the world, or 12th most dense of countries with more than 10 million people. (I've been on wiki again. Lists are fun.) There are 255 people per km2 (how do you make the little 2 in hmtl?). It's kind of difficult to get from there to a sparse, empty world. Takes a lot of imagining.

Canada, which as we know is what most of the universe looks like, has a population density of 3.5 people/km2.
That's 3 and a half, compared to two hundred and fifty five.
It is probably easier to imagine in Canada.

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Okay, I know a bit what the planet is like now. Canada and Australia, but like when the world had 1/8 of the people. Then add internet.

That's not very precise, but it is a bit funny. All the stuff filmed there makes all the planets look like that. I just got there with logics.

TV

I got really bored and started watching random stuff on the TV.
I am currently watching something called Le Salvager on Quest. I don't think I've watched Quest before. All the ads are for like fishing and murder. It's kind of weird. The thing I'm watching is a DIY show but he doesn't buy stuff from shops, he gets scrap and turns it into stuff.
It's kind of fascinating. You watch it and have no idea how it's going to work, and then he applies a chainsaw, angle grinder, arc welder, and assorted forms of fire. And usually chops the ends off things repeatedly. Plus he'll use lots of sort of glue and expanding foam and sort of squodge things together.
And then there's a thing that didn't exist before.

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So it's sort of a relief whenever he finishes something, all his parts are still attached, and it doesn't fall down.
But once you watch a few of them the things start looking actually good. And they work, at least while you're looking at them. They're just... kind of a bit mad?

So now I'm sitting here and it has been hours and I'm still watching to see what he comes up with next.



Also, because I'm me, I'm imagining the Pegasus Galaxy version. Ancient scrapyards... *blinks*