I think it would have been a very good idea if society had originally been organized around a couple of simple regulations regarding urban development:

1. No city shall be allowed to exceed 100,000 inhabitants within its given metropolitan area...which must then be bounded by a given area of rural land....agricultural or natural. In other words, don't allow cities bigger than 100,000 people.

2. Every metropolitan area must set aside 1/3 of its land for green areas...meaning parks, forests, and open land.

This would, of course, interfere with the desires of the business community to make every last dollar they can out of a place...but I'm envisioning a society where things aren't done for the money, they're done to secure the most desirable end result in terms of the general quality of life for everyone involved.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? ;-)

I only go to Toronto when absolutely necessary, although I loved the place back in the late 60s to mid-70s when I was in my 20s. Most of the young people from this small town go to Toronto shortly after finishing high school, because that's where the jobs and opportunities are.

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Now I'm trying to imagine how one person can possibly get into situations where they must sue other people for slander or libel...on three separate occasions????? Good lord. I have never even considered suing anyone for anything. I had a father who wasted his time and money suing a variety of other people over various business disagreements he had with them...and WHAT a waste of time and money it all was! The lawyers got rich. Everybody else lost out. My father got into those situations because he was consumed with the idea that he was 100% RIGHT and others were 100% WRONG (not to mention just downright awful and evil people who really deserved punishment) and those others must PAY DEARLY for being so wrong as to not see things his way. ;-) Lawyers love people who think that way. It's their bread and butter. They drink the blood of such people. Having seen the utter folly of that punitive and revenge-seeking approach to life, I very much doubt I will ever spend my time and money suing anyone over anything.

And I don't think it has anything to do with Toronto. It has to do with a state of mind.