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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
[Metrotown]'s already starting to get boring again now that Brentwood's open.
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What does this even mean? Nothing significant changed in Metrotown since *The Amazing Brentwood* opened up
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Surrey's population is set to eclipse Burnaby's, they're likely to concentrate around Newton-Guildford and Fleetwood, they're likely to pull in more and more amenities as the area densifies... and once that happens, the whole Central Burnaby area becomes an in-between.
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I guess you mean Central Surrey / Whalley is set to surpass Metrotown? I don't know if this is even true. Metrotown has a lot of room to grow, especially with the new TOD laws passed, which significantly expands the Metrotown area, especially south of Imperial and around Royal Oak station. Metrotown can easily add another 50k people, and new developers would rather build in Burnaby than in Surrey.
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
How many universities, hospitals or (possible) HSR stations does Metrotown have?
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No universities (arguably Downtown Vancouver doesn't have either, just small campuses for the big three universities, nothing actually central), but it does have BCIT next door, which is one bus stop away on the 222, and will get BRT soon, eventually a Skytrain to the North Shore. Hospitals? Downtown Vancouver is soon to have none too, lol. HSR? We'll see when it's actually built.
Metrotown will have something non-debatable that Surrey doesn't, the tallest building in BC.
Something subjective is that Metrotown has great urban parks. Central Park is one square kilometre of a mix of forest, open green space, ponds, a pool, playgrounds, tennis courts, etc, served by the Skytrain. On the other side it has Deer Lake Park, which is more of a wild park, but has Shadbolt which regularly hosts music events. The only thing comparable to Central Park in Whalley is Holland Park (which is tiny), and comparable to Deer Lake is Green Timbers (which is nice, but Deer Lake outsold).
What Metrotown does lack are bars and a nightlife.
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