Around the League Thread | Drive to the Playoffs

[StreetHawk]

I didn't have a car when I lived there, but now I hate driving there any time I'm back. I was there the day after the last Taylor Swift concert and it took me like an hour and a half to move maybe four blocks after getting off the highway.

This country is so gigantic and yet so many people (both internal migrants and external immigrants) insist on going to that one little corner. It's insane. You now have a U.S.-style network of suburbs that don't even need to be near Toronto (people live, work and socialize entirely in bedroom communities) and yet there it all is crammed in that one corner, ensuring huge wastes of time and fuel for millions of people. I'm so glad I left.

Country looks huge on a paper map, but there are parts of the country where people really can't/don't live. Not much different than the Midwest of the USA. Can go straight down from the borders of SK to MB to the Mexico and the % of people living in that part of the usa is small.

 

[Breakers]

I didn't have a car when I lived there, but now I hate driving there any time I'm back. I was there the day after the last Taylor Swift concert and it took me like an hour and a half to move maybe four blocks after getting off the highway.

This country is so gigantic and yet so many people (both internal migrants and external immigrants) insist on going to that one little corner. It's insane. You now have a U.S.-style network of suburbs that don't even need to be near Toronto (people live, work and socialize entirely in bedroom communities) and yet there it all is crammed in that one corner, ensuring huge wastes of time and fuel for millions of people. I'm so glad I left.

I think it is the 3rd or 4th biggest city in North America

Funny enough
Tanev was asked about his upper body injury on TSN
And they mcmasters asked him won’t be able to drive (as he was in a sling)

Tanev just responded “I didn’t drive before this injury in this city”

 

[Bobby9]

Just heard a ‘they’re a real good team over there’ live. I am blessed.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

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Just heard a ‘they’re a real good team over there’ live. I am blessed.

My condolences to your left foot.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Sens look exactly like you'd expect a travis team to look, they're gonna blow it and have a potentially rough offseason upcoming

 

[ManVanFan]

Sens look exactly like you'd expect a travis team to look, they're gonna blow it and have a potentially rough offseason upcoming

Winnipeg is a very good team this year.

 

[Jyrki21]

Country looks huge on a paper map, but there are parts of the country where people really can't/don't live. Not much different than the Midwest of the USA. Can go straight down from the borders of SK to MB to the Mexico and the % of people living in that part of the usa is small.

Ya, we’re not talking about settling the Yukon or northern Manitoba in large numbers. There are loads of small-to-medium sized cities across the southern portion of the country. Imagine if even a fraction of those people needlessly crammed into the GTA had settled in, I dunno, Sarnia, ON or Saint John, NB instead. You could have had another important urban center while alleviating a ton of the traffic and housing issues that Toronto has. (None of those bedroom communities that the GTA sprawls through are there for geo-economic reasons – they grew across a barren wasteland just because they are close to Toronto).

The US has many of these absurdities too with New York and Los Angeles, but the national population isn’t nearly as concentrated there as compared to the GTA.

 

[Coffee]

Only on the Avs broadcast do you hear words like "danglelicious"

 

[sandwichbird2023]

Ya, we’re not talking about settling the Yukon or northern Manitoba in large numbers. There are loads of small-to-medium sized cities across the southern portion of the country. Imagine if even a fraction of those people needlessly crammed into the GTA had settled in, I dunno, Sarnia, ON or Saint John, NB instead. You could have had another important urban center while alleviating a ton of the traffic and housing issues that Toronto has. (None of those bedroom communities that the GTA sprawls through are there for geo-economic reasons – they grew across a barren wasteland just because they are close to Toronto).

The US has many of these absurdities too with New York and Los Angeles, but the national population isn’t nearly as concentrated there as compared to the GTA.

That sounds good in theory but most of the high paying office jobs are still located at or near the downtown areas of major cities.

There was a time during Covid that people are able to expand outwards due to being allowed to WFH, but with the (illogical) strong push to get everybody in the office, and a large increase to population in the country, you get insane traffic during rush hours at these major cities. I think there are lots of appetites for employees to move away from downtowns, but until there is a change in employers' mindset (not happening), a significant portion of people are forced to live and/or commute to the city centers daily.

 

[rockymtnoyster]

 

[StreetHawk]

That sounds good in theory but most of the high paying office jobs are still located at or near the downtown areas of major cities.

There was a time during Covid that people are able to expand outwards due to being allowed to WFH, but with the (illogical) strong push to get everybody in the office, and a large increase to population in the country, you get insane traffic during rush hours at these major cities. I think there are lots of appetites for employees to move away from downtowns, but until there is a change in employers' mindset (not happening), a significant portion of people are forced to live and/or commute to the city centers daily.

Employment opportunities along with infrastructure like roads, public transportation and services like Hospitals, schools, doctors, community centers, etc. are factors for people to moving 90 minutes or more out of the city center.

WFH was supposed to encourage this, but like you mentioned, some of these conglomerates want people back in the office. Which decreases the desire of people to move further out as they don't want to do an hour plus each way for their daily commute.