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Voilà à quoi on reconnaît un village en plein essor : les femmes ont du caractère !
Somewhat literally: This is what we recognise a fast-growing city by.
More naturally: This is what we come to expect from a fast-growing city.
I’m not sure how to intrepret the phrase "Voilà à quoi on reconnaît...". I’d also appreciate an example sentence or two that includes this phrase.
Voici ce à quoi on peut s'attendre would be the closest answer to the question in your title.
You later mention Recognize and Expect, which have two different meanings.
Somewhat literally: This is what we recognize a fast-growing city by. =
Voici ce à quoi l'on reconnait une ville en plein essor.
More naturally: This is what we come to expect from a fast-growing city. = Voici ce à quoi on s'attend d'une ville en plein essor.
Voilà à quoi on reconnaît feels more like something you would say with enthusiasm.
Imagine you are a manager and you just saw an employee achieving a particularly difficult task, you turn to the other employees and say:
Voilà à quoi on reconnaît un bon employé!
Voilà à quoi on reconnaît un village en plein essor : les femmes ont du caractère ! = That's how you identify a booming village, ... !
Voici ce à quoi l'on reconnait une ville en plein essor. is more neutral, objective. = "You can identify a booming village by ..."
