Quote:
Originally Posted by Colin May
Significant growth in foreign students since the 2011 Census, especially from wealthy Chinese students. Car dealerships will tell you the difference in sales from 2011. Student enrollment is much higher than in 2011 - paper factories are doing well on the peninsula. Population increase in HRM is significant off peninsula, ask any realtor. Today CBC carried an item nationally in which a woman from Toronto described why she moved to the Eastern Shore shortly after COVID was indentified and she certainly was not low income.
|
Absolutely growth is significant out of the core, but HRM is one of the few metropolitan areas in the country where growth has actually been centrally focused in the past five years. Most cities have seen strong growth right downtown, and then a lot of sprawl in distant suburbs, with less growth in non-downtown urban areas and close-in suburbs.
Halifax, however, has seen not just strong downtown growth, but big growth in the near-downtown "urban fringe" and the closest ring of suburbs just off the peninsula. Farther-out suburbs have seen proportionally less growth, so the picture really is of a city-region with growth happening centrally to a much greater degree than at the edges. That's really the opposite of the national picture recently. It's interesting. I don't necessarily know that I would have predicted it.
Threaded Mode