Population and Housing

[plam]

KW suffers from being near Toronto. Halifax and Victoria are both smaller metros than Kitchener, but feel larger. They're the centers of their respective areas, so there's a lot more cultural focus on them.

It's also the distributed nature of the metropolitan area with 2 main city centre areas in KW and 3 within Cambridge itself.  Maybe by the time we reach a million in 2050, we will feel like a city of 600 000.

One could say that but Wellington also has Lower Hutt (100k), Upper Hutt (56k), and Porirua (56k) which are pretty cut off from Wellington by geographic features (hills). They are connected by commuter rail and not very high capacity highways.