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Originally Posted by megadude
There are plenty of run down housing complexes in the GTA like any city, but this doesn't look typical GTA to me. It kind of reminds me of Northern Ontario or East Coast.
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Like Signal suggested the white buildings could be some kind of old institutional housing on the East Coast. The brick apartment does not really look like apartments in Atlantic Canada and the corner store building looks completely different.
Atlantic Canada has a lot of ugly suburbs but unlike the ugly parts of Toronto or Vancouver they tend to be cheap. Here's a 3 BR townhouse in the Halifax equivalent of Scarborough. Listed at $139,900:
https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...ower-sackville
People usually say that of course these are cheaper, because Atlantic Canadians earn less. But the median household in St. John's or Halifax earns more than Toronto or Vancouver. They just spend less on housing, and detached houses or rowhouses are occupied by a larger range of the lower end of the income spectrum. These cheap houses aren't crappier analogues to the mid-range houses of Toronto, they are occupied by households that would have been in a run down 70's project or basement suite.