Hate sitting in Starbucks surrounded by squealing kids? Stay downtown
Hate sitting in Starbucks surrounded by squealing kids? Stay downtown
The 2011 census confirms what most city-watchers have suspected all along: Toronto is a working adult’s town. For instance, in four downtown tracts, including three along the waterfront, the percentage of the working-age population is over 90 per cent compared to the national average of 68.5 per cent. That’s not surprising, given the spate of yuppie-sanctioned condos along the lake—nor is it a shock that Milton, Ajax and Brampton have seen a steady uptick in young families drawn by cheaper housing and affordable child care. To find out how child-light your neighbourhood is, check out this cool census map rigged up by the folks at OpenFile. [Toronto Star]
Luckily for me, I happen to like being around kids much more than I do hipsters glued to their iPhones, and overhearing pretentious blather about whatever their new expensive toy is, or their trip to Cambodia “Because Thailand is, like, soooo commercial now.” Them and the superannuated hippies who still live in 1968. Please. STAY downtown.
And I hope you please stay in the suburbs complaining about the price of gas and how all cyclist are crazy and where your big news is that the Jack Astor’s has introduced curly fries.
And *I* wonder why jerks are the only ones who post comments on articles like this. Haha I WIN