Toronto is one of those cities that has managed to flip it's industrial core into housing comparatively successfully - that is, though it drives me half-mad, it is almost certainly more fun to complain about gentrification and rampant overdevelopment as we do, than living in an imploding tax-base ghost-town - and there are many examples of the latter, in very similar (rust belt) cities. But there are still lots of areas that aren't doing so well - and while walking through Parkdale the other day with Nada, I had a funny new insight on this.