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View Poll Results: Which does Toronto resemble most?
London 1 1.22%
Queens, NY 12 14.63%
Philadelphia 5 6.10%
Buffalo 4 4.88%
Chicago 55 67.07%
Los Angeles 1 1.22%
San Francisco 4 4.88%
Voters: 82. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-29-2014, 08:06 PM
 
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Take 2. Demographically, culturally, urban form, etc.

I list Queens, NY because it's the NYC borough most similar to Toronto.

Answers so far (that I remember offhand):

It's a "carbon copy of Philly"

It's like Portland - "Anglo-Scandinavian reservedness" and hipsters

Demographically like London, urban form and culturally like Chicago.
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Old 08-29-2014, 08:12 PM
 
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Take 2. Demographically, culturally, urban form, etc.

I list Queens, NY because it's the NYC borough most similar to Toronto.

Answers so far (that I remember offhand):

It's a "carbon copy of Philly"

It's like Portland - "Anglo-Scandinavian reservedness" and hipsters

Demographically like London, urban form and culturally like Chicago.
Someone called it a "carbon copy of Philly"? What the heck were they smoking?

Toronto resembles other Canadian cities the most, and outside of Canada maybe Chicago to some degree. But it is nothing like most of the other cities on the list, definitely not Philadelphia, Queens, Buffalo or Los Angeles. I mean, Los Angeles? That's just crazy.
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Old 08-29-2014, 08:42 PM
 
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Melbourne, Australia. Although Toronto's skyline is turbocharged compared to Mebourne.
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Old 08-29-2014, 09:01 PM
 
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Melbourne, Australia. Although Toronto's skyline is turbocharged compared to Mebourne.
Good one. Both their financial centers of their country and fairly similar size. Though Sydney has a larger Asian population, Melbourne has more "ethnic whites" (specifically Italians and Greeks) than Sydney.
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Old 08-29-2014, 09:05 PM
 
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Chicago, from that list.
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Old 08-30-2014, 03:35 AM
 
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Good one. Both their financial centers of their country and fairly similar size. Though Sydney has a larger Asian population, Melbourne has more "ethnic whites" (specifically Italians and Greeks) than Sydney.
I'm from melbourne and recently visited toronto, as far I'm concerned I may as well have been home that's how similar both felt, don't get me wrong I'm sure toronto in winter would be a rude shock for me, but for the time I was there both appear remarkably similar, even a lot of our streets in the financial centres have the same names, I'd say toronto is slightly more multicultural though, bit bigger, and slightly cleaner, walk around melbourne central business district after 7pm on any weeknight it's literally 85% Chinese people walking around! toronto was definitely more mixed. Even the ethnic areas felt evenly authentic..danforth = oakleigh (Greeks) etc .
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Old 08-30-2014, 05:28 AM
 
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Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Seattle in USA.
Hamburg, Berlin in Germany. Warsaw in Poland. Some big oil-cities in Asian part of Russian Federation too: Yekaterinburg, Tumen, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk.
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Montreal looks like Philly much more Toronto. Bigger cultural difference, like the native language. By urban form and (built same era, housing tends more toward big apartment buildings and houses than the rest of NYC) and immigration volume Queens is most similar to Toronto. Gridded layout of Toronto seems a bit more Midwestern though.

I'm guessing overall an Australian city would have more similarities, though.
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Old 08-30-2014, 10:49 AM
 
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Montreal looks like Philly much more Toronto. Bigger cultural difference, like the native language. By urban form and (built same era, housing tends more toward big apartment buildings and houses than the rest of NYC) and immigration volume Queens is most similar to Toronto. Gridded layout of Toronto seems a bit more Midwestern though.
Of the NYC boroughs Toronto most resembles Queens and Montreal resembles Brooklyn IMO. Given that Brooklyn is the "cooler" borough I guess Montrealers would find that flattering.

I don't actually see the Montreal/Philadelphia parallel. Montreal is more of an apartment city and Philly is a rowhouse Victorian city. I think an area like West Philadelphia resembles 19th century Toronto neighborhoods than Montreal ones.

There's a pretty sizeable 19th century "rowhouse belt" east and west of downtown Toronto - more akin to Philly and London than say, Chicago, I think.

The houses around the Danforth and East York (1920s streetcar suburb in the city's east end) incidentally remind me quite a bit of "Archie Bunker houses."

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Old 08-30-2014, 10:55 AM
 
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Demographically, I'd say a mix of Queens and London.

Urban form probably closest to Chicago + Queens.
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