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Originally Posted by jollyburger
Bash Metrotown? And people don't bash on Surrey? 
He's just stating the obvious that Metrotown will still be dominated by a suburban shopping mall vs Surrey which had even more empty tracts of lands that can be redeveloped in the near future. |
He's entitled to his opinion of course, but what he's saying is just flat out ridiculous and contradicted by facts.
He claims that Metrotown is "unliveable" - which also happens to be the title of the article itself - a statement that on its face stands against the reality of 60,000 or so people who happily live there currently in the immediate "core" (and projected to rise as high as 90,000 within the next 20-30 years of growth), and more pertinently by the number of development projects currently undergoing construction in the area and in the books getting planned or applying for permit to start soon.
Why would other developers be so eager to build in an area that's deemed "unliveable"? If it actually is, as he claims......"unliveable"?
Whatever you believe about the mall - and I'm sure you have your opinions about it and the wider area in general, ....just like him and just like many on here do - you are entitled to your opinion of it and the area, just like he is.
Neither of you are entitled to your own set of facts separate from reality about it.