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Originally Posted by Doady
Etobicoke is suburban but it's not suburban in the same sense of Westchester or whatever. High-rises everywhere, people walking the streets, waiting for the bus. It's a different feeling. Everything, everyone is more connected.
People idealize isolation but I don't. New York, Boston, Philadelphia got ravaged by those same ideals. Same would've happened to Toronto if it had followed the same path. Instead, we are getting the Hurontario LRT. I don't mind that at all.
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Westchester
does have high-rises though - and transit ridership higher than the typical US city. The idea of "Westchester" is not that it's some sort of
sprawled out, semi-rural Atlanta-style suburb - it's that it's a collection of
substantial, pre-war, railroad-centred towns that have sort of sprawled into each other (it also includes the city of Yonkers, which is not by any means suburban) - with a mix of typical suburbia and more exclusive, semi-rural large lot development (as well as more recent, multi-family TOD construction). Suburban Boston and Philadelphia developed in a similar pattern.