That's like saying no deserves economic gains by investing in the stock market. You are complaining you were too young and not rich enough to buy Microsoft or Apple shares from the start and feel you will never catch up to those.
Write your own story. Find a city with home prices similiar to Toronto 40 years buy and wait. Toronto 40 years ago was very different from the city you know. You had farm land, military bases, going to Yorkdale by bus was two bus tickets. Toronto has grown the people who bet on Toronto were rewarded. It could have went the other way if Quebec didn't almost leave Canada which moved invest from Montreal to Toronto. The Toronto stock exchange at the time was mainly mining financing.
Write your own story. Find a city with home prices similiar to Toronto 40 years buy and wait. Toronto 40 years ago was very different from the city you know. You had farm land, military bases, going to Yorkdale by bus was two bus tickets. Toronto has grown the people who bet on Toronto were rewarded. It could have went the other way if Quebec didn't almost leave Canada which moved invest from Montreal to Toronto. The Toronto stock exchange at the time was mainly mining financing.