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Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor
I seriously don't understand why north america splits it's cities up like they do.
Toronto realistically has 6 million but the city is only 2.8 million.
Vancouver realistically is 2.5 million people, not 600k like the census states.
Why do we have a metro area instead of one large city? What purpose does that serve?
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Its not a North America only phenomenon. All population centres around the world have this city / suburb / metro relationship. Its just part of the modern way of life, ever since the Indusrial Revolution, with the invention of trains, cars and modern day freeways.
The existence of several cities within a metro was because at the time those towns, cities and villages were formed, they were not only done by separate founders, but because back in the day, they really were separated from each other due to geography and distance.
Advances in transporation systems allow the movement of goods and people between those cities seem like shorter distance. I betcha 100 years ago, going from Gastown to Surrey by horse was quite a trek, no different than a plane ride from Vancouver to San Francisco today. But no one is saying Vancouver and San Francisco is the same city just because they can be accessible by a plane ride, same when Vancouver and Surrey can be accessible by car.
Vancouver DOES NOT have 2.5 million. Metro Vancouver, which consist of Vancouver
and its suburbs, do.