The World's Most Wasteful Megacity

merbs writes: The world's most wasteful megacity is a densely populated, steadily aging, consumerist utopia where we buy, and throw away, a staggering amount of stuff (abstract). Where some faucet, toilet, or pipe, is constantly leaking in our apartments. Where an armada of commerce-beckoning lights are always on. Where a fleet of gas-guzzling cars still clog the roadways. I, along with my twenty million or so neighbors, help New York City use more energy, suck down more water, and spew out more solid waste than any other mega-metropolitan area.

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[msobkow]

Yeah, you're #1 for waste, but how do you do on housing prices? A detached average home in Toronto or Vancouver now runs more than $1,000,000 CDN (which is somewhere around $820,000 USD.)