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Brampton is now poised to be Canada’s first modern, suburban city

By Paul Fitzgerald, Special to Postmedia Network

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If you are looking to live in a city that thrives on innovation, growth, culture and diversity, then you should consider making Brampton your next home.

“Brampton is truly an awesome place,” says Jason Rosso, who is the founder and owner of J. Red & Co, a popular urban eatery that’s only a stone’s throw away from the GO Station and downtown.

“I was born and raised here, went to high school here, and then moved to Europe and Toronto for a while. I came back home about five years ago and it was the best decision I ever made: this city has everything you want and the place is just exploding with growth in terms of population and new development,” adds the popular celebrity chef while serving glasses of red wine to local patrons.

Brampton incorporated as a village with only 50 residents back in 1853 and the city is named after the market-town of Brampton in Cumbria, UK. Over the years the city has certainly grown quickly: its population in the 1950’s was 10,000 and today it has nearly 600,000 residents. February’s 2016 Census release on population showed that almost 40 people choose to move to Brampton every day.