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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
I'm just thinking it's a different structure. There is no single city in the United States where most aspiring musicians have to go. There are several. The reasons for it are obvious enough, but that doesn't change the fact it is a real difference.
Canada doesn't have that. Sure there are examples of anglophone musicians going to other cities (CBC even had a story about a guy from Toronto who moved here to pursue his music career a few months ago), but it's not the norm.
Some of the American cities - Memphis is probably the best example - also have a stronger claim of ownership over their genres of music, and influence over their artists.
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This is completely false. Many aspiring musicians in Western Canada head to Vancouver as Toronto, in fact, probably just as many head west as they do east, if not more. Within the Francophone sphere and even within Anglophone spheres, there is also a strong Montreal element in the mix. Toronto is predominant, sure, but so is Los Angeles. Both countries have some splintering of streams but there is still one clear dominant force.