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Toronto is interesting. The scale of construction is immense. Visibly unlike anything you see in the states. Presumably drowning in immigration though.
by jncfhnb 3y ago
Toronto is interesting. The scale of construction is immense. Visibly unlike anything you see in the states. Presumably drowning in immigration though.
- meowtimemania 3y agoit'd be nice to have that kind of construction in a lot of US cities
- ptero 3y agoLerge US cities are already big enough. Doubling the housing density in many of them will not make living there any better. My 2c.
- huytersd 3y agoI would use the term “swimming in immigration”.
- wolverine876 3y agoIndeed. Also, I wonder how it's affordable to immigrants but not college graduates (from U. Toronto, no less).
- nemo44x 3y agoBecause they’re willing to stuff many people in a single residence. Like 3 or 4 to a bedroom. I worked at a place with many migrants and one group had like 10 guys staying in the apartment and they more or less hot bunked the beds as they worked across different shifts.
- sanswork 3y agoCanadian college graduates are going to feel less happy living with a bunch of other people to share the rent with than immigrants who frequently are ok with multigenerational households. I left Toronto for an even more expensive area(Bondi) and i see this here too with backpackers willing to live 6 people to a 3 bed apartment while locals feel priced out at the 1 bed or studio level.
- huytersd 3y agoBecause immigrants (Indians specifically) at least in the US are highly educated/entrepreneurial and have no problems finding a job as a result of which are very wealthy.
- wolverine876 3y agoThere may be a lot of wealthy Indian immigrants in SV, but you can also find many in different circumstances all over the US. (Which is not a criticism - I'd rather admit the poorer immigrants, who need the change of scenery more.)
- huytersd 3y agoNot really. They’re really aren’t very many Indians in the US living anywhere close to the poverty line. The second part of your statement also assumes they were rich before they came here. They come here poor and then get rich. This may be different in Canada of course.
- Qwertious 3y ago>Presumably drowning in immigration though. Do you have numbers that presumption is based on?
- voisin 3y agoYou can Google the specifics but Canada has the highest per capita immigration of the G20 according to our newspapers (I’ve never checked the underlying data), and the vast majority go to Toronto and Vancouver as our biggest and most multicultural cities. I don’t think OP’s presumption is misplaced.
- 3vidence 3y agoI have to go source my numbers but I think toronto is up to 50% 1st generation immigrants. That's a very high percentage for a small city. Sorry on mobile best source right now is Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto
- mcphage 3y ago> That's a very high percentage for a small city. Toronto isn't a small city.
- s0rce 3y agoApparently the scale of visible construction doesn't correlate well with actual new units https://twitter.com/evboyce/status/1678573678181728261 https://twitter.com/evboyce/status/1678573678181728261
- jncfhnb 3y agoI don’t know much here either way but I can’t help but wonder if they’re not missing some nuance on the meaning of new permits. I would like to see it as new units constructed.