Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoNerd
Dude, where do you live that you think this about Ottawa? You must live in some god forsaken place like Barrhaven or equivalent.  |
Cyrville.
I like where I live. But there's no denying this town has a very strong suburban bias. I think of my colleagues. About 70% of the team stays outside the Greenbelt. And I'm the only one with kids staying in the Greenbelt. The truth is that there's a ton of people in this city who really couldn't care about its urbanity. They want their 0.1 acre be lot and their federal PS pension and that's it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoNerd
As someone who lives in the urban inner-greenbelt and avoids the burbs like the plague, nothing could be further from the truth. Ottawa and Mississauga have very little in common as cities. Mississauga is like Nepean.
|
I was clearly being a little facetious. But I find it interesting that cities like Mississauga which didn't have much history have had to come to terms with sprawl and think about building an actual urban core, over the last decade. Meanwhile cities like Ottawa take their urbanity for granted and have decided to just let sprawl run.