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Originally Posted by Crawford
This is a huge factor. Canadians are more apt to live in multifamily because SFH are extremely expensive.
It's generally agreed that, all things equal, most people prefer SFH. So why would there be lots of multifamily in, say, suburban Columbus? Makes no sense when a nice SFH home can be had for 200k. But makes plenty of sense when the same home in the GTA is 800k.
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This is definitely part of it, but Canadians are also more likely to want to live within walking distance of mass transit and other services.
Hence it comes to no surprise that one can easily trace out the metro lines in Vancouver just by following the clusters of towers.
I laughed when an American told me that they were surprised to see high school students taking the train to school. To me that is as just normal even in elementary school to use transit. (And I grew up in the country side!)
But maybe that is one of the side effects of US style paranoia is teaching children to fear public transit.
Given its size, Vancouver has no right being in the top ten metro systems for ridership in North America, but it is!