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Originally Posted by GreatTallNorth2
Great video, never heard of him though.
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His channel is amazing. I just listened to an
interview with him on the Strong Towns podcast today. And he basically started making these videos to explain to his friends and family why they moved to Amsterdam. What's really interesting about his backstory is that he's not an urban planner. He's an Electrical Engineer who grew up in London, who just happen to start piecing it all together as he got a ton of corporate travel that let him visit the suburban areas of different cities. In the podcast, he also talks about how it makes him angry to see how much of old London was destroyed and how he eventually gave up on Canadian cities, because he didn't think meaningful change would come in a lifetime. It's really worth the listen.
But if you want a quick and dirty, this is his earliest video on his backstory. You'll see the whole familiar London to Toronto migration in his 20s. And then where it led him from there:
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