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Originally Posted by zoomer
It's awesome to see the East Coast leading the pack! I can see Halifax having greater population growth for than Victoria at least the next decade, after that it's hard to predict the future. It wasn't that long ago that people were predicting Saskatoon and Regina would surpass Victoria during the 2020's - which would equally as good for the country.
Even though Victoria was one of the fastest growing metro in the country I can't see it keeping up with the East Coast until there is more parity in housing costs - which has never been the case in my lifetime. With Victoria home prices double that of Halifax there's no driver other than the larger population of BC to drive higher growth rates.
As for the comparisons I don't get the big deal or why people get their knickers in a knot over it. It's a fair thing to raise, and if nothing else it gives someone123, myself and others the opportunity to explain a bit more about the our cities that others may not know about realize. I mean why wouldn't you initially compare the only two Canadian cities that are very similar in population, are home to the old two naval bases in Canada, both have maritime industry, fishing, tourism, are provincial capitals, have marine climates, have similar sized downtowns, strong post secondary institutions, historic cores with significant new construction downtown, both don't have LRT.. Comparing doesn't mean the cities are the same, in fact its a way of finding out how they're different as well as seeing if there are lessons that can be learned from one another. In this regard the anger at MattBerry is rather rude to be honest, and he was only calling out a comment that a younger slightly smaller city must always defer and be subservient to a older larger city.
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Actually he didn't mention anything about that. He just insulted me by saying I spend too much time on the internet because he didn't like the annoyance I expressed at the frequency of such comparisons. A conversation that he had nothing to do with and that had already been resolved. Cold and I don't have any history of conflict and when he said he didn't mean it to be annoying I believed him. People were "rude" to Matt (not really) because he made personal insults toward someone he doesn't know and wasn't speaking with which was off topic which needlessly prolonged and escalated the conflict.
And frankly, people from most cities don't generally like hearing statements they consider inaccurate being made about their city. And implying two things X & Y are similar when they aren't means that X, Y or both are being portrayed inaccurately. In the case of Halifax, while everyone from here is different I think many of us value the city's rough, slightly gritty, old east coast vibe. Superficial comparisons to a place we view as being quite different kind of erases a lot of what we consider the most relevant and valued traits. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking the other place. Sort of like when Asians or Black people get annoyed when someone says they're similar to another person of the same race who, beyond being the same race, isn't very similar to them. It has nothing to do with disliking the person they're being compared with.
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