Toronto's INSANE City of the Future in 2030!

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Toronto’s INSANE City Of The Future In 2030!
Hello and Welcome Back To my Channel Future Planet, Where we discuss all things Future !
As a new decade begins, the pace of change in Toronto shows no sign of slowing. Trends and plans are in motion that are set to re-shape the city by the year 2030. It may feel like the Toronto skyline is getting taller and denser by the day, but by the next 10 years, it will be indisputably so. Whether you live in Toronto or you plan on visiting someday soon, one thing you’ll notice right away is the city’s constantly evolving skyline.

[@GoWestYoungMan]

I moved to Toronto from London UK in 2001 and it's been mesmerizing and exhilarating watching the city get re-imagined/re-built block by block. It will be decades before the dust settles but it's already clear that Toronto will be a vastly different place than it was when I first moved here. Canada has always had lots of very nice cities and towns but never a big world metropolis to call its own. It will now.

[@ramsaybolton9151]

I live like 50 mins from Toronto and don't understand how people can live there lol.

[@alanv3185]

@@ramsaybolton9151 I go into Toronto every day for uni and I wanted to move to Toronto before I started commuting. After being in Toronto for so long, I definitely do not want to move to Toronto XD

[@ramsaybolton9151]

@@alanv3185 I used to go there maybe three times a year for concerts/activities and it just made me grumpy lol. Slow AF to travel. People everywhere. Prices high. I couldn't wait to get on the go train home. I wouldn't even go to Toronto if there wasn't a train/bus there. No way I want to drive there.

[@CanadianHunter69]

I'm from Hamilton, it's crazy how much has changed in 20 years

[@GamesWorld03]

@@ramsaybolton9151 I’m opposite of you. I don’t understand how people can live 50 minutes outside of Toronto in car dependant neighbourhoods

[@grrrrrrr0]

Skyscrapers are cute but what's the point of making all this residential space without accounting for amenities like transportation and healthcare with the increasing population, we can't just survive on bubble tea, shawarma and weed dispensaries lol

[@TheTroyc1982]

Toronto is undergoing it biggest transit expansion currently, with over 30 billion dollars in spending.

[@TheTraderGuy]

Don't be an asshat. How can the mega-developers make money w/ healthcare or transportation? And holy shit - you must have like 1500 weed despensaries up there. I was on a street near Little Portugal that had like 3 on the same block.

[@stevenvallarsa1765]

I lived in Toronto back in the late-80's, and can't believe the incredible transformation that has occurred since then. What was once a sea of derelict rail lands and abandoned warehouses by the lakeshore has become canyons of glass and steel for the Gardener Expressway. Old early-20th century low-rise building along the main streets are now making way for new 21st century skyscrapers. It's still sad to witness the loss of memorable stores and buildings I used to frequent back in the day, but I sure would love to move back to Toronto some day, even if it's just for one more year, and live in one of those new buildings… though my income will have to greatly increase to allow me that pleasure.

[@guyfaux900]

You sound like the oligarch from the RoboCop films "we're going to Raise towers of glass and steel; Neighborhoods are just the kind of places were bad things happen now" 😄

[@PWingert1966]

It's called Commerce court not commons court. It also has nothing to do with the Eaton center shots you showed. The commerce court has its own courtyard that would have made a better shot.

[@msriddlesquizzes2815]

You Guys Never Fail To Amaze !!

[@IXCANADATV]

Damn if that's what my city Toronto is gonna look like in 2030 it's gonna be beautiful

[@WhiteGuysMadder]

I've lived downtown since 1982 and lived on Lakeshore and Bathurst before there were any buildings or condos. The city has really changed! I would love to live closer to Orillia/Cottage country.

[@AZGT350]

I spent a lot of time in Toronto when I was a kid. I remember when the Dominion Bank buildings were the tallest and one had an observation deck. Then the BMO building took over. Still love the city. Visit it once a year. Might but a condo there next year.

[@thevenetianmask1427]

Loved the vídeo. ...well except for "FT" ...I can't get a sense of the hights. Aghh ...I need to review the scales again. But hey, cool vídeo.

[@herbtarlic892]

I'm a native Torontonian and have lived on the 30th floor of a downtown building for 30 years. At that time I could see across Humber bay and could see planes landing at the Island Airport. I was on top of the world. After 30 years of non-stop construction, I feel like I'm living in a valley with mountains rising all around me. I'm all for progress but not at the cost of our humanity. I just hope our new mayor can instill some balance in our town now.

[@AChapstickOrange]

So in other words, life was fine when you had a great, unobstructed view of the lake that blocked _other people's_ great, unobstructed views of the lake, but once somebody did that to you, it comes at "the cost of our humanity"...?

[@Kaiser580]

@@AChapstickOrange😂😂😂😂😂

[@hakohito]

The new zoning laws have passed and now there is ways to build higher density houses/apartments in the suburbs, so I guess the skycreepers downtown will slow down, since there will be more space for cheaper, more density in suburbs

[@TroyQwert]

You rely on new mayor? Her first move was to raise taxes, including the property tax instead of effectively managing the city's finances and ensure responsible money management practices.

[@hakohito]

@@TroyQwert she dumb as hell

[@ElJefe1986]

You have to make minimum 100K a year to live here. It's getting really crowded and competitive already. Toronto is turning into a concrete jungle, and the animals who are good hunters will be last one's standing. People (new comers) need to consider & understand that Toronto isn't the only city in Canada. How about you guys move west? Or try Atlantic Canada?

[@kevin6588]

Too cold, it’s Toronto, Vancouver or move out of canada

[@Entername-md1ev]

Maybe Montreal or Quebec City? If you’re willing to learn some French Quebec is probably the best province in Canada

[@bsar11]

@@Entername-md1ev I like those places better. I’ve been in Toronto for 30 years but it’s just too cold in Quebec.

[@homelessintoronto]

I agree!

[@AChapstickOrange]

Well, an awful lot of people ARE moving to the West and the Maritimes... Nova Scotia just finally topped a million people. Toronto has the gravity it has; it naturally draws a large share of the newcomers or domestic careeer-seekers... but it's already literally not the only city in Canada. Ontario and Toronto mostly only get their fair share of the population increase. It's not a zero-sum game anyway. We all help each other, wherever we are, even beyond Canada's borders.

[@alexcheng6255]

I noticed that a common point the most advanced metropolis have is a high-extent diverse population. Toronto belongs to one of them without any doubt!

[@user-ds5xy4rl7p]

Hi, My Name Is Tuan Bach and I am a mega 5X foreman for the entire world so far this is a good beginning and we will continue to forward and progress in the next two years, and years, and decades to come timingly due to timing.

[@_flcy]

YSL has been taken over by Concord, its called Concord Sky now, its been under construction for a few months already

[@kl8261]

Very informative video! But some names you mention have changed, ie… YSL Condo now is called Concord Sky as Concord development bought it from Cresford who went bankrupt during pandemic; Mirvish Gehry is called Forma; The One could potentially be scrapped due to recent lawsuit.. but let’s see what happen to it!

[@Train_Chaser-KeiTruckUrbanist]

The one is still being built

[@coreyb6442]

Just went bankrupt.

[@TroyQwert]

I am a torontinian. These plans seem to impress, unless you think what exactly we see. And it's just a few new glass and steel boxes going up and up in the sky. But the city can't offer anything compared to: CN Tower, Rogers Center and nothing even close to projects by Zaha Hadid (Heidar Aliev Center and Vilnius Raiway Station), Santiago Calatrava (Oculus in NYC), or Guangzhow Baiyun railway station, Istanbul Airport or even something like the High Line in NYC to mention a few. We can't afford anything significant because all the money went to subsidize Ellington Crosstown LRT which is in construction since 2011 and it's cost is $12.81 Bln, and finally renovated Union station (cost=$824 mln), while invisible revitalization of Nathan Philips sqare took some "humble" $40 mln. Where you think they gonna get those $15 Bln. for the new TTC Subway line? Seriously. WTF? (Where's the funds?). Why Chinese construction companies built faster, cheaper and of incomparable high quality?

[@nicolasforte4316]

Will the Eglington LRT be completed at this time?

[@AllInnerLove]

6-7 years before*

[@christo88white]

Hahahha, that's what I was gonna say .lol

[@DrRestezi]

🤣🤬🐢🐌

[@wintertarzanjagrup2527]

No we are working on it boys

[@kevin6588]

So I see all these new office towers and condos going up but where is all the new subways, highways, and other infrastructure that will support all the new people?

[@ottovonbismarck8460]

Under construction

[@TravisjackDreaverattigabandone]

That wonderful 😊🙂🙂🙂 and amazing 🤩😻

[@3dEmil]

those who choose to live downtown must forget going around with cars or spend most of their days stuck in traffic.

[@adad-ec6ht]

Don't need a car if you live in downtown; uber is frequent.

[@emericdion]

@@adad-ec6ht Your uber will also be stuck in traffic🤣

[@adad-ec6ht]

@@emericdion true.....

[@leduckduck]

TTC: Am I a joke to you?

[@jahkarimirza7286]

Also, if you are a construction worker who doesn't live in the city(most don't), it will be a pain to get affordable parking. Also, working in those towers 60 floors and above will be wasteful because a lot of time is spent waiting for an elevator to go up.

[@malikchabou]

CC3 is the acronym for Commerce Court 3, not Commons Court

[@C-mac_in_the_6ix]

They've got everything wrong in this video. Lost of wrong names, and showing the wrong renderings to those wrong names...lol. The video is a hot mess...lol.

[@arricammarques1955]

CN Tower appears rather anemic within the layouts.

[@k-lancarjaya6696]

Come and listen again, friends, all the channels are growing and successful, amen👍👍

[@laze7992]

We are also developing the water front! 😎😎

[@streamofconsciousness1881]

Getting jello legs just watching this, how could you sleep knowing you are that high up..... a wind storm would be a nightmare. "I have 2000s/ft, but I only use the area near this load bearing pillar, no I have not looked out the windows, is it a great view?".

[@paintedeggs]

you get used to it really quickly

[@dimr1088]

Yeah, sure... we will belike Detroit by 2030...

[@iseemelanie]

As a Torontonian, I can attest that many of the locations mentioned in the voice overs do not match the stock images. This video isn’t accurate at all.

[@PWingert1966]

2030 is the first year that the Eglington Crosstown line will begin serving customers. That's 40 years after it was conceptualized and twenty-five years after construction started on what was supposed to be a five-year project. The Scarborough subway is unfinished, and the Gardiner Expressway is still under construction. The Ontario line is several billion dollars over budget, and they only just finished the first ten percent of the construction. Gridlock is now twenty-four hours a day with traffic taking several hours to advance one kilometre on the 413 highway that was supposed to cut travel time by one minute. Thanks to Hurricane Melissa which was stronger than Hurricane Hazel and lasted for an entire month with over 48" of rain being received during that time. most of the downtown core suffered catastrophic flooding since the green belt had had a sizable portion developed into parking lots and residential condominiums. Leaving all those billions of gallons of water to flow down to the lake instead of being absorbed by the greenbelt. This is another example of ignoring the environment to our detriment. The One condo at Bloor and Yonge has not been finished since it went bankrupt in 2023. Over half of the city's population (About one million people in the GTA) now lives in shelters or on the street permanently and is receiving social assistance.

[@exploringnorthernireland5278]

Great video

[@SimpleX84]

Hey can you have a video of eglinton construction by 2030

[@mariocisneros911]

They had such a beautiful city in 1990 with very much space and potential to design it like ours , Chicago , but they're making it like New York , UGLY . They should have demolished much on the waterfront to make parkland , plus made a second expessway. There's too much congestion. Take on a aerial view of Chicago

[@operator91210]

Woow look at all the real estate I can't afford.

[@paintedeggs]

all of this will make the older stuff cheaper for us

[@michaela.5363]

It's going to be even more unaffordable for the locals than it is now

[@habiblaskar6560]

Nice video, but video follow knowledge any country project estd. Love from india.

[@paultoronto42]

Commons Court? LOL.

[@spinners9462]

I currently live in downtown Toronto, and nobody cares about empty, vapid glitzy towers. If anything the constant construction is just a headache and eyesore.

[@megaprojectsanddevelopments]

Wow

[@cr00_24]

Exactly bro

[@kc-nv5yi]

@@megaprojectsanddevelopments You’d be surprised by how common that line of thinking is here. Not altogether unreasonable if you understand that living through construction constantly does get tiring and Toronto has as much as anywhere right now

[@jordanjohnson9866]

Nah. Not nobody cares. Not “nobody cares.” /

[@jordanjohnson9866]

@@cr00_24 Nah. /

[@abc0583]

and you will need a income of 400k per year to survive and IM NOT LYING. Right now you need 310k to buy a house

[@dearjohnkim]

Can I post this video on my channel?

[@squishykrishy_]

Mini City Condos (MCC) Everything in 1 building!

[@tsifty1]

Best city in Canada hands down, followed by Vancouver and then Montreal.

[@johnwellington5754]

montreal then Vancouver... ;)

[@TheTraderGuy]

Quebec City?

[@emericdion]

Montreal before Vancouver it's much much more affordable.

[@tsifty1]

@@emericdion it’s called supply and demande. That should answer you.

[@emericdion]

​@@tsifty1 It's also called offshore investors that bought a third of the properties in Vancouver. Anyways Montreal is still more affordable hence it's a better city.

[@ghull544]

Three words eglington cross town. Good luck with all this. Ttc life

[@estiennetaylor1260]

I ❤Toronto

[@lilybertine5673]

Why does the future always has to look more big and more shiny?

[@operator91210]

How else would you sell it? Dull & boring?

[@adad-ec6ht]

You want cheaper buildings ?

[@user-jx3zp7zj4y]

Many confuse City population of 2.5 million with the GTA population of 6 million. So; this video's population project is more believable if it said the GTA. Another issue at 2:20. WHY is it Showing an imaging of downtown Montreal?

[@roots7132]

@2:20 photo of Montreal

[@iseemelanie]

Right? And he used a picture of the Eaton Centre right after and called it Commerce Court smh

[@keyboardmanyoutube3189]

Housing affordability: hold my beer 🍺

[@francescos7361]

Thanks The tallest towers .

[@tharwatsowareduhab2726]

Why you use feet instead of meters?

[@HughG_Rection416]

Toronto is nothing like when I grew up. I’d never live there again but it’s nice to visit I guess

[@TheTraderGuy]

Shit man, its a lot different than just 5 years ago, getting more like NYC. That's not a good thing.

[@adad-ec6ht]

Why not live there ? Where do you want to live then ?

[@WillenaFlewelling]

I moved from Toronto to rural Alberta in 1978, and could never go back now!

[@HughG_Rection416]

@@WillenaFlewelling it’s still nice for a visit or if your bored and looking for something to do. I just wouldn’t live within the city anymore, I’m still within a 20/30 min drive of Toronto

[@WillenaFlewelling]

@@HughG_Rection416 I was in Toronto for 5 years, but grew up about the same distance away as you are.

[@guyfaux900]

Victoria ruined by rustbelt snobs in 10 years Could have made an epic time-lapse film of the skyline change literally.

[@hunternicholsofficialchann4473]

Wow

[@Imbored794]

Holy Shit

[@tarzan694]

2:19 Montréal city!!

[@billyboy4797]

Vive le Québec!

[@JC-qe9be]

this is all just rich ppl luxury housing. we also need housing for middle class people and affordable housing so hopefully that's being built too.

[@Booze129]

Not sure about the 8- million by 2030 but hopefully robots 🤖 can greet us at the hotel

[@jackmiller7324]

yea good conceive

[@adad-ec6ht]

cause women are becoming men.

[@QuelquefoisFois]

What'll people think when the CN Tower is only visible from its base? 😁

[@nova_verse6284]

Canada will finally have its moment to shine. So the US takes a backseat and let its neighbors do the real building..

[@michaelfernandes4873]

Why were the eaton centre geese shown for commerce court in dying 😂 and then you showed sky tower ( a totally diff development ) for commerce court. Sir do better research yikes

[@JesseMichaels74]

"Cummins Court" should be "Commerce Court."

[@al-karimabdulaziz8961]

After watching that video I am so glad I no longer live there. None of these building address greening the exterior of the buildings and all are built with the human ego and greed in mind. These types of buildings de-humanise cities.

[@tgempire2.048]

Neom city vs Toronto in 2030

[@C-mac_in_the_6ix]

This video is a hot mess. All kinds of names for developments are wrong, and not only are the names wrong, but showing the wrong developments to the names.

[@iseemelanie]

Exactly! This video is pretty terrible.

[@miguelmail]

Lots of people will move out from Toronto because more and more the Asian market will buy everything here, and everywhere. Lots of buildings will be empty because the price of living here will be so high nobody will have money to live in this city, To pay the rent its already insanely crazy. It's very sad.

[@UnderTheEndlessRain]

this is all great but let's make living in Toronto affordable first

[@homelessintoronto]

Thank you!

[@nicholasyoung9758]

More ugly glass and steel towers . . . Wonderful. . .

[@PWingert1966]

And one-third of all people living in Toronto will still be living significantly below the poverty line. We will have 50% more homeless on the streets and healthcare will be in crisis because the government will continue with its 1% pay raise by legislation. The education sector will be decimated due to low pay and no investment. Low wage workers will live in homeless shelters. Rents will be $7,0000 a month for a basement bachelor. Half the people in the province will receive some sort of subsidy from either the provincial or federal government.

[@mohamede3576]

Bro really

[@vjc4964]

Indochina city🤔😵‍💫

[@jackmiller7324]

2030: gta8 vice toronto

[@DeclanCW]

2:26 shouldn't it be Commerce Court, as in the office buildings used by CIBC. And the pictures you used are of the eaton centre, and neither commerce court west or north.

[@PSYCHO.23]

THE REVOLUTION 😈🤠

[@joewlosjosephwlos5713]

This is funny because Toronto has dozens of high rise apartment buildings that are nearly empty. So in eight years all this will be built😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kalexambing2507]

Probably all the Canadians getting priced out by international rich people

[@WhiteGuysMadder]

Which buildings?

[@joewlosjosephwlos5713]

@@WhiteGuysMadder There are at least a dozen maybe more that are less than 20% occupied. The ones I know for certain are right around Air Canada Centre, and a few just south of the old Royal York & Union Station. I believe that area has 20% or less rented or purchased apartments/ town house.

[@WhiteGuysMadder]

@@kalexambing2507 I don't know anything about that.

[@joewlosjosephwlos5713]

@@YYZ88YYZ 🤣🤣🤣

[@jackmiller7324]

what new rail transit system will be built

[@bobbbxxx]

If you are truly interested in learning, watch the youtube channed RMTransit, especially the "Everything About Toronto's MASSIVE Transit Transformation" episode.

[@leonstone4738]

Back in the mid sixty’s Toronto experienced Rental high rise growth by Developers in the Davisville area and Don Mills for example. I actually lived in one of the first Buildings by Greenwin and Cadillac was the other big developer at the time. Clusters of rental high-rise buildings also appeared in the Steeles and Bathurst area and over at Jane and Finch. IN THE MID TO LATE 90s the Condo’s started to appear and BANG, 30 Years later we have all the monster Buildings being developed and planned. Yes, I understand that it was either spread out or build up. No doubt the subway has a lot to do with it and thank goodness for the Toronto The Toronto Council who pushed for its development or it would be a different story, nor could the City afford it today. I must say that Toronto was a much nicer City to live in back in the 1970s through the 90s. I don’t believe I would like to live in it today, 8 Million by 2030/35 in Toronto is just too much to think about. Enter start planning some very big grave yards the other end of Yonge Street, as they’ll all kick the bucket in due course!

[@jackmiller7324]

time to move to northpole

[@bobbbxxx]

All big world cities have changed a lot since 1970. And we all look back and fondly remember when we were young, as opposed to now when we are old. Human nature. Likely you moved to a smaller town and that is better for you, but not everyone likes a city remaining small and pokey forever.

[@MGMiller420]

more people no place to put them cant wait

[@JanBanJoovi-ol1qv]

In 2030 Toronto will be like New Delhi or Lagos

[@realfalardeau]

Why does Toronto think being a megacity is a good idea ?

[@calebnewman676]

What in the B1M knockoff shii is this video? 🧐

[@bskinny9009]

I got stressed watching this.

[@violinmke]

Toronto was gentrified and sold out to developers with ridiculous heights of new towers. The Manhattan of Canada

[@TheTraderGuy]

No shit, and this is infuriating. And I am an American. In just the last few years it has gotten worse. Makes me sad, because it was so clean and beautiful.

[@adad-ec6ht]

@@TheTraderGuy It looks far better than 1990. Toronto looks modern now.

[@grddavis]

I hope it becomes like Manhattan, from High Park to the Don River

[@goosevillage]

Toronto......WORLD CLASS all the way.

[@naserdeen8210]

Will never be

[@paymans1153]

I invite you to travel more and you'll have a different perspective. ;)

[@TheTraderGuy]

It used to be. However, it's becoming NYC. That's not a good thing.

[@adad-ec6ht]

@@TheTraderGuy its not; buildings in Toronto are significantly shorter

[@nolxverodin9022]

@@naserdeen8210 it already is

[@jackmiller7324]

the photo has been beautifullized actually toronto feel like middle west usa rust area

[@bobbbxxx]

Ok Jack. We get it. By your multiple snarky comments, you don't like Toronto.

[@SkySinatra]

2030!? There’s roads that have been under construction since 2006 😂

[@Anjays]

The YSL residences is actually known as Concorde sky at this point. You also use the old renderings from years ago when more updated plans have been released. It’s going to be a dislike for me, clearly this video wasn’t well researched

[@goodsandcargoinc]

Looks like a “Smart City”

[@mitismee]

New Delhi 2.0

[@quantryli]

Will it even make it to 2030 with all the crimes

[@misterspike]

Wow, 80% of the images have NOTHING to do with the projects they are discussing!

[@RealAmarSheth]

Thanks for the rose-colored vision. Here’s the raw reality: Toronto is completely unaffordable for most Canadians. Rents are out of control, home prices are insane and a salary north of $250K is needed to afford the average residence. Solve for this before expanding more post-modernist condos lacking history, character and stature. Other than that, great video? 😎👍🏼

[@emericdion]

Hear, Hear

[@Itwillgrowback]

As the effects of climate change intensify, Canadian cities seem to be poised for huge growth. I wouldn’t be surprised if more of their cities go through similar construction booms

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

By your comment, I sense you wake up thinking about climate change and go to bed thinking about it just as much. There is nothing that can be done about it (just like the end of the ice age), so why worry about it? Life's too short...

[@Wald4267]

@@TheOldTapeArchive 100 years isn’t short you can accomplish a lot within that

[@bsar11]

So our population will more than double and the solution is more overpriced condos that families don’t even want and/or can’t afford??? 8 million people by 2030 which is like New York today, but we have so little highways that are already piled up with traffic with no room for expansion. Closing off lanes on major streets that already have too much traffic with light rail transit, bus lanes and bike lanes. I’m trying to get out of here, not waiting for 2030.

[@vincentlopez5232]

The way these contractors have positioned their condos has blocked some of the most iconic CN tower view points coming into the city. Whomever approved of the projects must of hated Toronto.

[@bobbbxxx]

You can't build a major city by imposing artificial sight-lines to a specific building; that is ludicrous. A city is about living, not about how easily a tourist can see the CN Tower, or the Empire State Building, etc..

[@silentrunner7283]

Your forgetting that most of the places they are building are in a dense business core area and are going to be for the rich. All those areas, places will probably go for minimum 3.5 million dollars (condos) Rent alone will probably be estimated 4, 000 month minimum. Rent now downtown is approx. 2,500 + My friend lives at young and finch and paying 2700 for a 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 kitchen, small room, 1 bathroom. My other friend lives downtown, paying 2800 for 1 bedroom, 1 living room/kitchen, 1 bedroom. The apartments are mediocre, not luxuries. They are paying mostly for location.

[@OutThere5]

That’s only a few years from now. Ya better get to work

[@g.r.2985]

Yeah, this. Idea didn’t age well.

[@rejanebrandao3778]

2001

[@supermash1]

I liked Toronto for the first year I lived there in 2003 or 4, then didn't like it anymore, so moved back to the west coast. Canada has become an expensive place to live. Housing is severely unaffordable anywhere there are jobs.

[@bobbbxxx]

You mean housing is severely unaffordable on the west coast, right? You're not thinking the situation is better in Vancouver, right?

[@supermash1]

@@bobbbxxx It certainly isn't. As I said, anywhere there is a strong job market in Canada, the housing is unaffordable. I moved back to the west coast - this time southern Vancouver Island - because the climate is so much better. Housing is crazy expensive here too, but it is actually a northern mediteranean climate here - look for yourself on wikipedia. As Toronto, and Montreal, and Ottawa, etc. continue to get snowstorms in January we have mild days of 12 degrees C and clear (zero snow on the ground). It's overcast and gloomy some days and we do get rain, but about a third as much as Hongcouver and much more sunshine. There are palm trees here and the flowers start to bloom in February. I cannot image living anywhere else in Canada at this point, however I'm looking to retire somewhere warm and much less expensive.

[@bobbbxxx]

@@supermash1 I've spent a lot of time of my life from the 70's to now in Vancouver, so am extremely familiar with that climate. Not so much Vancouver Island, and all of the time I spent there was in the summer. Vancouver is milder than other Canadian cities, but it still gets snow and cold spells too. If you have spent either of the last two Christmases in the region, you'll know how cold it can, and did get. Vancouver had two snowfalls before Christmas this year, and we won't get into the issue of the sheer numbers of cloudy/foggy days with light showers or scotch mist over the winter. We have very different lifestyles, and I'd go crazy living on Vancouver Island. I need big city life and the bigger the better. I like the electricity in the air and a constant buzz. I like change, and crowded sidewalks with lots of restaurants and bars. I like being close to other cities like New York and Montreal. I guess you and I are both willing to pay for what we each like! Each to their own, and thank goodness for variety in our cities. Think how dull it would be if all our cities were the same !!

[@supermash1]

@@bobbbxxx Agreed, to each his own. At different stages of life we desire different things. I certainly enjoyed working in Vancouver and Toronto when I started my career, and worked on major buildings in some of the best architectural firms in Canada in each of those cities. But now I want to work for myself on small projects, so I'm content here. I will say that Vancouver has changed since I lived there and the drug and homelessness problem only gets worse and worse. I also lived in Toronto during one summer called "the summer of the gun", and I hear Toronto is at what many people are saying could be the beginning of a serious crime wave. That is really not acceptable. My sister and her family visited from Melbourne, Australia earlier this month and I showed them Victoria, a bit of Vancouver, and Whistler. Unfortunately the weather in Vancouver and Whistler happened to be miserable (pouring rain), and I was embarrassed about the dire social problems in Vancouver. It is not nice showing someone the major metropolis of your region only to have to witness open hard drug use and the consequent misery in the streets. I can't say I have any desire to live in Vancouver anymore and would not even visit were it not for a good friend there. No doubt you are young and love the dynamism and night life of the big city. For me I'd love to own a farm / country house and maybe just keep an apartment in a medium sized city. Italy sounds like it has what I'm looking for. Cheers, all the best bob. I hear Montreal is a great larger city, but I never lived there, perhaps you have?

[@bobbbxxx]

@@supermash1 I've never lived in Montreal, butt I have spent a great deal of time there. I suppose it's like any city; there are positive aspects to it and there are negative aspects to it as well. I know people who have moved there and enjoy it and I know people who moved there and did not. If you plan on moving to Montreal you have to be realistic about the language and learn French. You don't have to speak French as a tourist but to live there you really should. I think for anybody who wants to relocate, they should check out the potential city a few times before they actually move there. Going to a city and having fun spending money on a vacation is not the same as actually living in the city. And do your research! Anyway, enjoy where you live, and spring I'd just around the corner!

[@galaxiedance3135]

Seriously? Construction is almost at a Stand still! Don't let those cranes fool you. It's extremely difficult for developers to sell enough units to begin construction. I was speaking with someone who was running water supply into our site. He told me back in Dec 2022, they're crew alone had lost 7 future jobs permanently because of towers being completely cancelled! So that one crew alone showed me that 7 future towers full of condo units were cancelled. There is far more of that going on. Liberals have made interest rates so high that people can't buy. Housing should have been sped up a long time ago when they want all these immigrants to come into Canada. Trust me, I work in the industry. it is slow.. if it was going the way it should be.. you'd easily notice the difference! 2030 will never even come close to looking like that at this current speed!

[@homelessintoronto]

Toronto needs a lot of work! But it definitely has the potential to be world-class!

[@PaulLynch71]

Why do you cut shots into this video that are not even Toronto? Oh forget it. I'm sure AI created this video.