ThisCanadian June 25, 20081

Post Peak Oil social sustainability:
"The End of Suburbia," indeed. Unless, some of these smaller Canadian communities can overcome the concerted efforts of BigOil to create 'drive everywhere' civil structure... I've lived all over Canada; &, while Toronto can be a major pain in the butt, I'm confident that the transit system of the GTA greatly surpasses that of many other Canadian communities. Much of Canada's communities have a near punitive level of public transit support.

save local employees (who owns their own business, rather than a 'franchise' or management of a corporate entity?) or telecommuters... or those who really leverage that GO Transit & drop directly from GO transit into their employment neighbourhood...
...about the only thing that seems good about Bedroom Communities is the quieter neighbourhoods, clean linens drying on clotheslines & cheaper groceries prices.

Nothing comes for free:
- transit time & costs?
- heating bigger homes?
...maybe the 'flee the City to the County' movement will stimulate sustainable green energy conversions? maybe cities will improve their transit? maybe people will become less disenfranchised from local government & education?

How many people thought their marriage could survive the strain of twice-daily, 2 hour commutes so they could afford a bigger house?

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