Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups

Re:Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups by minwcnt5 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @02:01PM (#11889335)

REALLY strange choice of data point for Toronto -- it uses a much smaller land area than for the US cities.

Greater Toronto Area - 7,124 km^2

Chicago Metro Area - 28,120 km^2

Houston Metro Area - 26,061 km^2

Dallas-Fort Worth - 24,059 km^2

Washington Metro - 14,412 km^2

Philadelphia Metro - 13,256 km^2

A much more apples-to-apples comparison would be the Golden Horseshoe (7.005 million / 10,097 km^2), or Greater Golden Horseshoe (8.759 million / 31,561 km^2).

I believe that Chicago's population is also stagnant, whereas the GHA has grew 4.5% from 2006-2011, so extrapolating to 2016 would put it at 9.1 million. Still smaller than the Chicago metro area, but not by a lot.

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Re:Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups by RBO2 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @02:42PM (#11889586)

These area are huge. Switzerland is 41,285 km^2, Belgium is 30,528 km^2, The Netherlands is 41,543 km^2.

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Re:Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups by sib on Sunday June 12, 2016 @09:20PM (#11891197)

Try the Los Angeles metro area - 87,490 km^2 (and 18.7m people)...

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Re:Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups by frozenport on Sunday June 12, 2016 @02:57PM (#11889658)

Having lived in Chicago, I was genuinely surprised by Belgium's comparably small size.

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