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Originally Posted by Docere
We have a poster on SSP who seems to have made it a life mission to convince everyone that Toronto is basically a Sunbelt city.
And people debate whether Toronto and Ontario are "more" Northeastern or Midwestern. "Midwestern" is often used pejoratively though and Northeastern being a sign of cosmopolitanism.
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Toronto's post-war sprawl is much more similar to Sunbelt sprawl than the Snowbelt/Rustbelt-style sprawl, in terms of the density, the size, the discrete urban-rural boundary.
You'd have to be denial if you believe Mississauga and Brampton have more resemblance to Putnam County, NY than West Covina, CA.
Toronto is a giant, glorified suburb, just like a Sunbelt city. Even Toronto city proper is mostly post-war suburbia. I don't see how pointing out this obvious fact with a few posts in a single thread means it is my "life mission".
Of course, there are some significant differences with Toronto's sprawl, such as all the TOD features and high bus ridership. In the Great Canadian Transit Thread, I pointed out that
Scarborough has better transit ridership than both Queens and Brooklyn, NY. We can't look at only at the differences and ignore the similarities (or vice versa). But I think I have gone to greater lengths to point out those differences than anyone here. I'm not the one painting all these places with the same brush (e.g. The Soul-Sucking Canada thread).