All I know is this: up to the mid-1990s, Toronto was a funky, low-stress, very liveable, fun city that was clean and with very good, functioning public services. After the boom of the 2000s, the city is over-crowded, dirty, services are poor and the infrastructure is visibly falling apart, the roads are traffic clogged, and for this privilege, the cost of living has jumped to nose-bleed levels. 

Yes, Toronto has visibly grown in size and population but this has not been handled very well and on balance, when you consider the substantial increase in cost of living and over-subscribed and crumbling services, it is not an improvement.