Bringing the population to 1 million

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Whaat I would like to see is not so much satellite downtowns, but moreso density in the suburbs that allows for residents to do the things they would want to do in a day or week within their neighbourhood, on foot. This, instead of driving into the peninsula or all over their suburb.

I've lived in a city like this - I was very near the edge of the built-up city, but I had two grocery stores, dozens of restaurants and more services than I personally needed within a 15-minute walk. Anywhere else in down was at most a 30-minute bus or subway ride.

While Halifax isn't Korea, I think lots of people, myself included, would be fine living further out if it meant we could more or less keep our 'on foot' lifestyle and have that urban neighbourhood feel.