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Originally Posted by esquire
Good point. By contrast, you go to the US and it looks as though huge quadrants of the city are divided up into chunks meant to service a specific economic quintile with very little mixing or blending. You have the rich people neighbourhoods, the upper middle class areas, the middle class areas, the working class areas, and the po folks areas with almost no overlap except maybe in the downtown areas.
I think we're moving a bit in the direction of the Americans, but by and large our neighbourhoods tend to be a lot more varied socioeconomically.
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A huge factor in maintaining that cohabitation is (fairly) low crime. That's partly because the less fortunate in Canada don't seem themselves as locked into a desperate cut-throat battle to survive.
Food for thought when considering whether we want to chip away at the social safety net a bit more than we have already.