rudeboie
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American suburbs are waaaaay different than Canadian suburbs (at least Toronto's anyways). I've done my fair share of travels around the US and you literally have to drive at least 15-20 minutes to get from one place to another. I got family in Atlanta (Roswell suburb) so I go there once every 2 or 3 months. It's nothing there but cars and SUVs. I did see a couple of empty buses (I assume it was the same one as I saw them on separate days on the same street). And down there, rarely anyone else but blacks ride their MARTA system. Mississauga blows Atlanta's suburbs away in terms of convenience of public transit and pedestrians. Down there, we DROVE from box store to box store. Also it was the first time I had ever been to a 'drive-thru' bank, where you drive up to one of the 4 lanes and do your banking with a teller over the intercom. There were very few people who actually went inside the bank, but the drive-thru lanes were packed! It's very much a car culture down there and the sprawl is much worse than what we have in the GTA (their suburbs stretch much farther than those in Toronto).