You’re probably not a great example due to the huge rural catchment of our city. I think he’s talking more the kind of suburb I’m in and less where you are. I can walk to the stop sign, look around, and see city transit, municipal sewer, an occasional cop car… Easy walk to a municipal rec centre, there’s a police station in my suburb, a shitty train, etc etc. Everything out here has to be much less dense and spread out than providing the same services to denser suburban neighbourhoods within the greenbelt, or to truly urban neighbourhoods closer in to downtown. There’s also all of the municipal ‘operating cost’ that you won’t see when you step outside and look around, but that we all pay for.
