Rich Man's Hill, Poor Man's Burden

I was just about to go to bed but I'm so angry that I'm writing this first.
Richmond Hill sucks. It was announced that it's building a Performing Arts Centre, and I was sort of happy about that until I stopped to think about it and then asked myself, "Ever since its incorporation in 1873 (compliments of Wikipedia), how come they waited this long to build an arts centre? With a population of 165 000, shouldn't they have built one long ago?"
I ride my bicycle through Yonge Street, the "downtown" portion of the town consisting of a narrow street and a very small space with a few shops, and the streets are deserted.
I hate to compare, but Oakville, Ontario has a similar population and...let's see...an established Performing Arts Centre, a vibrant downtown experience, an orchestra, a ballet company...
There are 4 libraries. The wiki didn't tell me the actual area of this God-forsaken place, but considering it is quite long length-wise I don't think 4 branches helps at all.
The more I researched into this place, hoping to find some sort of redemption, the more I wanted to pack my bags and leave immediately, dragging my family with me out of this suburban-soaked peepeehole.

It's not just the arts, either. In the 2006 Welcome Guide, the Town of Richmond Hill lists its attractions as follows: a wave pool, a couple of parks, and a community centre. I was laughing my head off after that.
RH is sucky because there's no sense of residential identity. Who cares what being a Canadian means--what does being a Richmond Hillian mean? The bigger towns nearby--Vaughan and Markham--soak up all the business opportunities that RH could ever have. It's a place that is the example that is all that is bad about suburbs. One can absolutely not get anywhere without a car, unless you're going next door (but since you have no sense of community who cares about that, right?). You need to drive for miles to go to work, school, play, shop, eat. In fact, it's not just miles. You must drive out of town to go to work, school, play, shop, eat. There's literally nothing here for you. "Hey! I've got an idea! Let's move to RH but not really live there!" Whoever came up with that is a prodigal moron who despises the thought of a comm-un-i-ty.
I told my mom this and she reasoned, "It's just been starting to develop very recently. Prior to that, it was more of a farming town. Maybe there's so many close things nearby that the municipality plans to make money on housing taxes alone."

Ugh. I don't have much more to say. I don't think I can really put this into words, and even pictures won't do--you have to actually be here and live the experience to see what I'm talking about.