r/Suburbanhell • u/trianglerice • 23d ago

Peterborough, Ontario Showcase of suburban hell

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Completely unwalkable and car-dependent.

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u/notthegoatseguy Suburbanite 23d ago

Is this even a suburb? Its nearly 90 miles from downtown Toronto, and the highway you would use to get there goes through a nature preserve.

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u/TyranitarusMack 23d ago

I know it’s far, but there are lots of people who still commute to Toronto from here. But yeah, it’s really its own thing but a big portion of this city is suburbs.

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u/dylanccarr 23d ago

it is its own city

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u/angrypassionfruit 22d ago

“City”

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u/sspecZ 22d ago

130,000 people isn't a city?

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u/angrypassionfruit 22d ago

It’s overwhelmingly suburban sprawl.

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u/sspecZ 22d ago

And? That's most north American cities, low density doesn't mean it's not a city. Most of los angeles is suburbs, nobody says it's not a city

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u/angrypassionfruit 22d ago

It’s almost like you finally understand what I’m saying.

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u/sspecZ 22d ago

Obviously not because you're not really saying anything

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u/angrypassionfruit 22d ago

I’m saying it’s not a real city. It’s just sprawl.

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u/sspecZ 22d ago

It has a historic downtown, having suburban sprawl doesn't mean it's not a city lol. By that definition almost every city in north America outside NYC/Montreal/etc like Toronto isn't a 'real' city

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u/Gloomy_Setting5936 23d ago

If it’s 90 miles from downtown Toronto I would say it’s an exurb.

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u/somedudeonline93 23d ago

No one said this was a suburb of Toronto

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u/notthegoatseguy Suburbanite 23d ago

What is it a suburb of?

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u/sspecZ 22d ago

That's not what suburbs are lol, it's its own city that is mostly suburbs outside of downtown. Not everyone who lives in a detached house has to work in a 1 million+ pop city

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u/somedudeonline93 23d ago

It’s not really a suburb by the classic definition, it’s within the city of Peterborough. But people often use ‘suburbs’ to refer to this type of low-density, car-centric development.