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Originally Posted by goat314
I disagree, St. Louis and Pittsburgh both feel like their respective sizes from an American perspective. Also, outside of the West End Vancouver looks like typical Pacific Northwest suburbia.
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I haven't been to St Louis or Pittsburgh, but from what I have seen in photos, from what I've heard of first-hand accounts, despite having beautiful downtown areas and core neighbourhoods, I doubt either are as busy as downtown Vancouver and some key neighbourhoods on an average day. Places like Granville St Downtown are easily as busy as the busy parts of downtown Seattle and generally busier than equivalent areas in Portland (which has a similar metro population to both Vancouver and Pittsburgh). The density of people, the concentration of amenities, the well-used transit system that feeds into the same area, etc cause the central areas of Vancouver to be busier than similarly-sized American metros that I've been to. St Louis seems even sleepier than Portland in the core areas.