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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
In fact, the US doesn’t inflate. They established a 15% commute threshold to define CSA. I looked for Canadian stats, and here in SSP I found a thread about it.
Commute rates into Toronto GTA is: Guelph at 10%, Kitchener at 3%. Even using American definitions they would be off.
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The thing about the Golden horseshoe that is different from US metropolis is that there is no such thing as a bedroom community, the cities are not really suburbs in the american sense because they all have huge industrial-commercial employment centres of their own. And just as many Torontonian commute outside of Toronto that commute inside. and that's the same for the other cities in the region, someone in kitchener might not commute to the city of Toronto, but likely commute to another large employment centre in the region because their are 5 larger commercial-industrial area between Toronto and kitchener.
It is truly a regional economy with traffic and commutes going in every direction, ie from "suburb" to "suburb". The cities are also all growing fast. Which is why the province created the Greater Goldenhorse, place to grow act, the greenbelt, metrolink to manage all this multi directional growth. Although the city Toronto doesn't dominate the other cities like in the US sense, their economy and growth are still very intertwined.