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0 points3vidence1y ago0 comments

Canada is much much more geographicly concentrated than the US.

Toronto is definitely cheaper than NYC. However Toronto represents a WAYYYY higher percentage of Canadians than NY does.

Rough numbers.

GTA population ~7 million

NYC population ~8.5 million

By representation GTA represents 10x the amount of the country that NYC does.

Major cities being unaffordable in Canada pretty much means Canada is unaffordable.

The same case is not true in the US

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gnabgib1y ago· 1 in thread

If you're going to use the GTA @ 7M (6.2 according to wikipedia[0]) you should perhaps use Metro NYC @ 23.5M[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City

3videnceOP1y ago

That's a fair correction, but it is still approx 3x the proportion of the population.

Edit: actually I take that back the metropolitan NY area seems to encompass a much larger area than the GTA and goes across multiple states.

sudosysgen1y ago

Sure, but on the other hand that's just as true for income in the US, the disparity in average income between major cities and the rest of the US is even sharper than it is in Canada.

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