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Interesting! Do you have a source for that? I’d like to learn more. Is it really small towns, or just suburbs/exurbs/bedroom communities? Regardless, it’s a goo

• randomdata 9y ago
  Statscan[1]. The actual numbers are by population size. I use the term town and city colloquially here (technically speaking Canada has towns with hundreds of thousands of people and cities with thousands). [1] http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/dict/geo049a-eng.cfm http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/dict/... > Regardless, it’s a good reason to focus on making housing more affordable in cities (build more!). I am going to have to disagree. Seeing the economic activity spread out to smaller communities has been the best thing to happen to Canada in a long time. I would argue that much of the countries woes are directly related to the drive into the big city that happened 10-20 years ago. As we've seen in Germany, a decentralized economy comes with many benefits.
  • thesumofall 9y ago
    > As we've seen in Germany, a decentralized economy comes with many benefits. I’m not sure if I would call it decentralized. The economic powerhouses remain the big metropolitan areas (which are sometimes just a bunch of merged mid-sized cities). But yes, some of the richest cities are quite small such as Wolfsburg and Ingolstadt. However, that’s mostly driven by a single big company and not really by a truly sustainable network of economic activity. In addition, I know few people who’d really love to live in Wolfsburg...