It's not just the size of cities, as a culture we are deliberately exacerbating the impact of wealth disparity.
The upside is that after having lived in both places, I’d still rather hit a rough patch in Canada. The healthcare, policing, and social services are all way more friendly in Canada.
No but seriously it’s nuts how expensive the island is and I’m from Toronto
The Canadian government’s, at all levels, unwillingness to do anything but talk about housing without action blows my mind. It’s like they never noticed what happened in the US.
I called it a nothing town in reference to real estate. We are hours from major economic areas, have no industry to speak of, aren't constrained in land area, don't have anything unique, etc...
Nevertheless a "cheap" 3 bedroom house is $650k.
1. Poor people are living in crappy rooms and hotels.
2. We must do something, so we ban those forms of housing.
3. Now poor people are sleeping in the street. We solved the problem!
Extra credit question:
Which problem was actually solved?