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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
And more importantly, how do they compare to the cities here??
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They're really different I think. Stockholm is a real "pocket metropolis", meaning that when you are in its central neighbourhoods it has a busy, ornate, infrastructure-intensive "European capital" feel that vanishes instantly and turns into planned modern developments and SFH once you are off the main archipelago.
Copenhagen is spread more evenly and doesn't build to as much of a peak in the core, but it has more 19th-century "streetcar suburbs".
Both cities are about as big as Vancouver 20 years ago overall, so not huge. Instead of having a skyline there to signify their scale, you have the infrastructure tangle. This is Stockholm's rail map; it's pretty intense for a metro of maybe 2.3 million:
I don't honestly feel like Stockholm gives too much up to even Toronto in experience terms (it's different... there is less of that Ellis Island multiplicity and extreme commercial heft, but it's a capital so you get that feel with the government, central bank, embassies etc.) , but I do get homesick and I love coming home each summer and crossing the Cartier/driving in on the Gardiner. You can take the boy out of Canada...
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