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Originally Posted by IrvineNative
I've never been to Cleveland myself, but to me it's a fascinating city.
I always wonder if Cleveland had never stopped growing, if it would become another Toronto. As recently as 1960, Cleveland MSA had about as many people as Greater Toronto. Now Greater Toronto has at least 3x the population of Cleveland MSA. And it isn't all suburban sprawl--Toronto proper is constantly growing in population, too, and Toronto has more cranes than any other North American city.
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The thing about Toronto is that it's the undisputed economic center of its country and has been for a long time. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver have a much higher percentage of the Canadian population than New York, Los Angeles and Chicago do for the US. Most of Canada's population growth is and has been funneled into those three metro areas for most of its history. Not sure Cleveland could have kept up if it had continued growing because there are so many other viable American cities competing for a slice of the growth pie as well, and many are in Cleveland's vicinity.