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Old Posted Jan 6, 2010, 6:01 AM
trofirhen trofirhen is offline
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Originally Posted by SpongeG View Post
just go es to prove Vancouver isn't as big a deal as we like to think it is
Precisely. It's a lovely city, with many fine attributes, but lacks a real economy of scale (unlike Seattle, which has a real economy) and has little corporate power (just compare us with Calgary; dealt with in another thread)

It's a city with a delusion of grandeur. Either that grandeur is going to break and crumble, or, conversely, the city will one day live up to what it likes to believe itself to be.