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Originally Posted by wave46
It depends how you view it.
In landscape, I agree with you. Housing can be hit or miss, but it's in a much warmer climate. Walking down Queen Street gave a Toronto-ish vibe. Or driving south from the Auckland Habour Bridge on the Northern Motorway with the Sky Tower dominating was Toronto-esque.
In terms of the role it occupies in the national psyche, yes. Or how its demographics are different from the rest of NZ. Or how other Kiwis outside of Auckland viewed it. I can't say how the average Aucklander views the world, but I suspect the gaze looks towards Sydney, Asia or London moreso than Wellington, or the South Island.
I'm not making a definitive claim, but to one person's vibe, yes, there are similarities.
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Still don’t see it. Auckland wears its British heritage, demographics aside, much more so than any other largish commonwealth city: the terrace housing, formal gardens, prevalence of high tea. It is far sleepier than Toronto, never had a large industrial base and is poorly integrated into other regions due to remoteness. The terrain is very PNW and the layout Northern California like, snaking through valleys and up hillsides in what is likely the world’s most sprawling city. It does look to the UK and Australia, but so does most of NZ.
My grandfather grew up on a dairy farm in what is now the southern suburbs of Auckland.