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Originally Posted by hipster duck
What I've noticed in Toronto, some of which probably applies to other major cities:
- the skyline, particularly along the waterfront
- increasing presence of people of South Asian and Latin American descent
- relative decline of hearing languages like Cantonese spoken on the streets
- along commercial streets, the replacement of retail with take out restaurants and marijuana dispensaries
- food halls
- the decline of small concert venues and dive bars
- bike infrastructure (bikeshare bikes, separated bike lanes)
- our commuter rail system being viable for things other than suburban workers coming into downtown in the morning and out in the evening
- delivery vans for Amazon
- nearly complete annihilation of the taxi industry and replacement with Uber/Lyft. Taxis used to be nearly as ubiquitous in downtown Toronto as they were in London or Manhattan, but all the different companies painted their cars different colours, so it didn't really register as a huge mass of identical cars. Nevertheless, hailing a cab was as easy as just stepping out onto any street corner and raising your hand.
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I agree with the rest of your list but there's actually been a bit of a resurgence in small venues as of late. The difference is that despite the internet it paradoxically seems harder to find out when/where things are happening. Back in 2006 you grabbed a NOW magazine (weekly alt paper) and had all the listings.
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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
The collapse of normal bars, music clubs, and dance clubs.
I can't believe that I live in a world where I have to check to see if a bar is open after 10pm...but that is the reality we're living in.
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Weirdly enough it seems like kind of the opposite here. Lots of places that used to open at noon have shifted to evening-only hours. However a lot of late night food options and 24 hour grocery stores have disappeared.
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