Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

[bravado]

Is it just me or does London have far less curb appeal than KW? Many streets where homes are unkept, tired and in need of TLC, I don't see much of that here

London has had a much more significant fall from the industrial highs of the 20th century than KW has and it is an older city that was much more prominent as a local capital than KW ever was since we are closer to Hamilton + Toronto. That means there is just a lot more Victorian and Edwardian and pre-war neighbourhoods there.

Because it has so much more of an older core of buildings than we do, the suburban experiment of growth at the edges has really allowed a lot of spaces to hollow out and get dilapidated. Anyone with money doesn’t bother fixing anything up when a suburban option is readily available. Then you throw in centrally-located higher education and the associated student ghettoes and you get a pretty wild core of a city.