Heh. Sure, but that's not exactly suburban sprawl. Living in the countryside is one thing.
Replacing the countryside with non-stop pedestrian-hostile automobile-dependant clone housing is another.
I think downtown Vancouver B.C. is very nice, though the huge eastward expanse - Burnaby and (egad) Metrotown
are pretty nightmarish.
Mainly I was thinking of what has happened around Seattle (where I grew up, and am currently) in the Last 20 years. The population multiplied, and many forests have been sacrificed to "developments" with attrocious modern clone housing in cul-de-sacs and strip malls - communities for automobiles. Dreadful.
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