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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Perth county is a bit of a split. Certainly areas east of Stratford are in Kitchener' sphere, I would say Stratford is a 50/50 split, while the west/St.Mary's is London.
CK is mostly London. Tilbury is Windsor but most of the county is closer to London and Chatham city is midway, but London is significantly larger than Windsor and more of a shopping, entertainment, government, academic, and medical draw. No offence intended for Windsor but London is the regional center and people tend to gravitate more to it.
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The draw of the Windsor/Detroit area far, far exceeds that of London, lol, it's not even close. You can't exclude the Detroit area from Windsor, it's one big connected urban region. People in Chatham go to Detroit almost as much as People in Windsor do. I'll give you medical for London, but the old city of Chatham is in the Greater Windsor/Detroit area, and its offerings far outweigh anything London can offer, being 10 times the size, that's not surprising. Windsor to Chatham is
82.8km, London to Chatham is
115.2km, so a fair amount closer to Windsor. That said, London does still attract a lot people from the area, and is the regional centre for much of Southwestern Ontario, but I just think that you greatly underestimate the draw and offerings of Windsor and Essex County, who's population is about 400,000 now.