For what it's worth, though almost every North American city I've visited has a Main street, and all of them appear to have small businesses on them, they are o

For what it's worth, though almost every North American city I've visited has a Main street, and all of them appear to have small businesses on them, they are often not the street with the most small businesses. For example, in Toronto, there is a Main Street, but it's a North-South route north from The Beaches, rather than downtown, so King St. and Queen St, which are East-West, naturally have far more small businesses because they run through more of the downtown.