text: My kids play outside... on our half  acre lot and LOVE it - in the northern GTA. 
  
  I would rather be dead in a coffin 6 feet under than alive and painfully suffering in a small box that this journalist claims is utopia. You cannot raise a family in one of those ugly boxes
  
  Canada has vast amounts of land.  This is preposterous that we "need" to live in condos instead of detached... and the main reason why the trend is going toward condo development is because developers can make a boat load more money and local governments can spend irresponsibly with a bigger per acre tax base... 
  
  I absolutely abhor the direction that the GTA has gone.. ugly, cheap, small apartment units where people are expected to raise families?  No thanks..
  
  European immigrants coming from war-torn countries with a suitcase and a few dollars had their own detached home within 5 years of living here.. through hard work and a less greedy development industry and political class...