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Originally Posted by ue
I'm sure it had to do with the industrial development closer to the lake pre-WWII, but I always found it strange that none of the older wealth neighbourhoods in Toronto were lakefront. Whereas in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Ottawa, the wealthiest neighbourhoods are mostly the ones closer to water. Though I guess many of the Toronto ones are in or near the Don Valley...
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It's true, the only really wealthy lakefront area is southeast Oakville, which attracts many Bay St. types (Toronto's "Connecticut"?) It's 50s/60s outer suburbia, which is pretty rare in the GTA. And that's a minor concentration, compared to the contiguous zone running north of downtown along Yonge and Bayview, from urban Yorkville to the very suburban York Mills/Bridle Path area.
It seems to me Toronto overall does have a donut pattern (where the city has gentrified significantly and the suburban sections that are wealthy are
generally closer-in/more accessible - but there's more wealth in the western GTA (secondary wealth concentrations in the Kingsway/Humber Valley area and Oakville) than in the eastern GTA (i.e. Scarborough and eastward).
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