Fat Tony
Fire Benning
- Nov 28, 2011
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You don't need to preach to me about "Vancouverism". I grew up near Marine and lived downtown in a condo for a decade before I went to England. Vancouver's core isn't small 'by design', the peninsula is small because there's nowhere to grow.
Have you been to the downtown core of Toronto in the past few years? It's filled with high density towers. They're even planning on a building that would be the tallest in Canada.It looks more like Manhattan than the 'urban sprawl' you speak of. Get further out into York, East York and North York and you get high-mid density apartment blocks and old Victorian era mansions cut up into flats.
You only get 'urban sprawl' when you hit Etobicoke, or Scarborough or places very very far from the city center. Places that are just as far from downtown Van as Langley, Surrey, White Rock, Delta, etc.
Don't drink the kool-aid; I like Vancouver for what it is, but it is in the grand scheme of things a small resort city that thinks it's a big one.
Vancouver is Toronto West: both think they're bigger than they really are and annoy the hell out of those around them. Manhattan looks at Toronto like Toronto looks at Vancouver.