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Originally Posted by Acajack
There isn't a single trigger moment and Canada has a large middle class as well, reasonably similar to the US. (Canada has fewer really really rich people than the US, and fewer really really poor people as well.)
I think it's probably due to the fact that while transit also declined in Canada starting in the 1950s, it didn't almost completely collapse like it did in much of the US.
Transit has always had at least a pulse here in almost all our cities.
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That is the thing I don’t know if the US had stronger middle class in the 50s, 60s and 70s than say Canada. Just more cheap access to housing in the US.
But I hear the US built massive highway system and many cities and suburbs got money to build highway system unlike Canada lacking highway system. And in the US houses built along the highway and new communities popping up along the highway. I also hear the federal government subsidies housing in the US.
I hear stories from boomers in Canada oh I got good job paying good money and move into high rise apartment paying rent and taking public transit than in the 80s I bought my first house.
Well it in the US boomers probably skip that and bought house and got car ASAP if the government was subsidies housing and cars.
So probably in the US housing was easier for new emerging middle class people and boomers than in Canada where they moved into apartments first and took public transit than in the 80s move into house.
So in way the government made sure in the US emerging middle class people and boomers move into house.