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Out of the two cities, which has the better restaurants, museums, landmarks, architecture, scenery, universities, nightlife, public transportation, arts, better for the youth, parks, etc? Which city would you rather live in, and why??
Restaurants- don't know...probably a wash (LA for mexican, Toronto for Carribean and a wash for everything else)
Museums- no idea
Architecture- I prefer Toronto's
Scenery- LA has better natural scenery and Toronto has a better built environment
Universities- UCLA and USC are great, as are the University of Toronto and York University...probably a wash overall
Arts- no idea...probably a tie or edge to LA
Better for youth- Toronto due to the racial harmony in the city and Canada's "welfare state"
Parks- no idea
Which I'd rather live in and why- LA due to the weather...I LOVE toronto, though; if only toronto had LA's weather:/
What does Toronto have that LA doesn't? Sprawl and density doesn't make a city better or worse IMO.
Decent public transportation and Jamaican people. I think that's it. Yup.
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Originally Posted by CelticGermanicPride
toronto felt no more international than any other big city. if anything, it felt a lot more boring, bland, and vibeless than i'd expect from a city with 2 million+. boring, bland, and vibeless aren't in la's vocabulary.
If Toronto's boring for you I don't really have much to say. You must be hard as **** to entertain. I'm never inviting you over to dinner because I'm afraid you'd get bored.
Decent public transportation and Jamaican people. I think that's it. Yup.
U already know LA is a car city. That's like asking what city has the best weather. Personally, I'll driving in a car over public transportation any day of the week.
What does Toronto have that LA doesn't? Sprawl and density doesn't make a city better or worse IMO.
For one thing, lots of commercial ethnic neighbourhoods and other similar funky neighbourhoods WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE of downtown. Downtown L.A. may have Chinatown (and I think Koreatown is in downtown L.A. too? can't remember, or is it Little Tokyo I'm thinking of?). But Toronto has Little Italy, Koreatown, Chinatown, Chinatown East, and Greektown all within relatively easy walking distance of downtown. And they're all a pleasant walk. You won't have to be walking be any ugly free on/off ramps, railyards, industrial areas, ghettos, 8-land psedo-highways etc. to get there. Little India is a little further away, but you could still walk there from downtown in probably under an hour, and it would be a nice, pleasant walk the entire way.
A transit system that blankets almost the entire city within a 15-minute walk of an overnight bus or subway line, so you can get wherever you need to go without a car even at 3:45am. L.A. may have some 24-hour bus routes, but the network is not nearly dense enough to put the whole city within a 15-minute walk of such a line. Hell, there are parts of the city of L.A. that probably aren't within a 30-minute walk of such a line.
U already know LA is a car city. That's like asking what city has the best weather. Personally, I'll driving in a car over public transportation any day of the week.
Uh yeah, you can drive in a car in Toronto too. But Toronto also gives the option to not own a car (I haven't owned a car in five years) and still get where you need to car quickly and efficiently.
All this talk of party scene in Toronto and these guys are online at 2:00am on a Sunday. Are you just going out for the evening?
I just got home about 2 hrs ago and the bar I was at was still packed at 5:00am and left my group early and they are just rolling in. That is the difference between pseudo party cities like LA and Toronto and a Real party city like Berlin.
All this talk of party scene in Toronto and these guys are online at 2:00am on a Sunday. Are you just going out for the evening?
I just got home about 2 hrs ago and the bar I was at was still packed at 5:00am and left my group early and they are just rolling in. That is the difference between pseudo party cities like LA and Toronto and a Real party city like Berlin.
No. Toronto has lots of parties that go until 5am or later. I explained that earlier in the thread, but I guess you can't read.
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