Hey AylmerLover. I can understand the growth statement on some levels. Once a city hits a certain size it's not that it stops growing, but that it doesn't feel like it's growing anymore. If you added 20,000 people to Regina you'd feel a difference. Add 20,000 or even 200,000 to New York and it would just feel like everday life. Add another half million to Tokyo and the fabric barely changes. Sure there might be a few more tall buildings in some areas and a few more suburbs, but the vibe and feel is unchanged. I can totally see that. Especially in larger cities where one's day to day life is lived in only a small section of the city, your local street fabric could remain unchanged and you really could be completely isolated from feeling the growth.
And, my cat is from Aylmer, QC. If she had been a boy we would have named her Lucien (our little separatist kitty), but as a girl, we named her Maple for the trees in Eastern Canada.
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