Haiti and the Dominican have remarkably different political histories—Haiti has a lot more awful dictators in its past. They’re poor comparisons. Toronto and Detroit are probably even worse—Detroit is an industrial centre whose industry rotted out around the same time as it was levelled(metaphorically) by race riots and people fleeing from them. Toronto is a financial and cultural centre whose primary challenge is that they’re short a freeway or two and the commute times are bad. If you want to compare Toronto to anything, NYC or maybe Chicago are the obvious candidates.
As for a close cross-border comparison, I propose Seattle and Vancouver. They’re close, similarly sized, and culturally close. You can also look at smaller examples(Sault Ste Marie ON/MI, Niagara Falls ON/NY, etc.), but it’s harder to get good data from those due to scale, even though they are even closer in geographic and cultural terms.
Haiti and the Dominican have remarkably different political histories—Haiti has a lot more awful dictators in its past. They’re poor comparisons. Toronto and Detroit are probably even worse—Detroit is an industrial centre whose industry rotted out around the same time as it was levelled(metaphorically) by race riots and people fleeing from them. Toronto is a financial and cultural centre whose primary challenge is that they’re short a freeway or two and the commute times are bad. If you want to compare Toronto to anything, NYC or maybe Chicago are the obvious candidates.
As for a close cross-border comparison, I propose Seattle and Vancouver. They’re close, similarly sized, and culturally close. You can also look at smaller examples(Sault Ste Marie ON/MI, Niagara Falls ON/NY, etc.), but it’s harder to get good data from those due to scale, even though they are even closer in geographic and cultural terms.