![]() (aside, IM: How can all those American cities be so much better than Toronto, but Toronto is so bad because its economy is too linked to America?) I was originally going to reply to IrishMonk with this, but his rant is so epic and so wrong-headed I didn't even know how to begin. Not because I believe we are in terminal decline, just because the bar is rising so fast. Otherwise, we are more likely to be third tier in the future than first. If massive climate change occurs and Canada decides it wants to be a great middle-power (we have the potential, just not the desire), this would help Toronto cement itself firmly in the second tier pack. In this world of the future the best Toronto can aspire to is to be like one of the high standard of living cities of Northern Europe (say Stockholm or Copenhagen). By the turn of the century according to current population projections India will be the most populace and probably largest economy, China will be stagnant, and Africa will surpass Asia as the most populace continent, a strange world where African cities will probably be the world's largest. The world is changing so rapidly that even cities like London, NYC and Hong Kong are probably falling behind. Toronto must strive to have and maintain having one of the highest standards of living in the world. ![]() If anything the bar is rising so fast that Toronto is falling behind and cities like Tokyo and Paris will strain to even stay on that top tier list. Toronto will never in this century be on the level of a first tier global city. Toronto can't be said to have "passed" Chicago.
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