What do you like, what don't you like, what can change? (real estate, condos)

[theterribleone]

What do you like about Toronto? What don't you like about Toronto? What should, or what would you change about Toronto?

[BMI]

Traffic

The 407 should never have been a toll HWY ....very bad idea from Mike Harris.
The GTA badly needed another east-west HWY and 407 would have been great but
it is very under used (not surprising being most exprensive toll HWY in North America), a real shame.
I read that gridlock in GTA costs the economy about $ 6 billion a year in lost productivity.

[johnathanc]

Likes:
- Well rounded city with a little of everything to offer: sports, theatre, restaurants, bars, stock market, etc.
- Ethnic food: Love different cuisines and it's great to find so many options all over the place
- Peaceful: people from all over generally live peacefully together and get along, or at least mind their own business
- Good-sized downtown urban core where one can live without a car or one can do the suburb thing via train/driving.

Dislikes:
- Public transportation: subways, trains, and roads are all too congested
- Pretty quiet and reserved atmosphere for a big city
- Real estate: too many ugly condos are an eye soar and real estate is way too expensive for what you get. Seems like average Joes are priced out of anywhere remotely desirable in the city at this point.
- Lack of innovation/out of the box thinking: very dominant monopolistic/government play-it-safe mentality

[botticelli]

Things I like:

diversified economy, strong employment
safety
downtown is livable, not just a business district
great weather May-Oct
plenty of good restaurants

Thing I don't like:
Not enough vibrancy, too much suburb, even downtown is too quiet
not enough interesting things to see and do in and near the city
transportation is 20 years behind, city is still largely car-dependent
mediocre architecture, too much NIMBYism when it comes to change and growth
lack unique image and culture

[TheTourist]

Originally Posted by botticelli

Thing I don't like:
lack unique image and culture

What's good in unique image and culture and why you don't like lack of it?

[kat5998]

Good:
- safe
- lots of jobs
- ethnic foods
- there's lots of stuff to do

Bad:
- transportation - city needs to be raised for new highways to be built and we desperately need a dependable subway grid that covers the city (not an LRT, not a bus, not a streetcar, but a subway)
- buying a decent piece of property is not easy unless you come from money, you have a really well paying job, or someone dies and leaves you money
- weather - summer is unbearably humid (although most people complain about the winter)

[Atticman]

^ Oy vey, do you ever leave your house?? Try it sometime, you might enjoy it!

[NorthYorkEd]

Likes:
- diversity
- opportunities
- variety
- major events/artists
- "vibe"

Dislikes:
- too many cars!
- Yonge south of Dundas should be pedestrian only
- waterfront seems cut-off; has untapped potential
- developers run amuck
- transit system still in the Dark Ages ("is this a day pass or a Bingo card scratch ticket?")
- many groups still operating in silos, often lacking cohesive feel of "we are all in this together."

[mrjun18]

likes:
-diverse population.
-lot and lots...and lots of food options.
-safety/low crime.
-lots of large events, festivals etc.
-tons of development under construction all around the city/metro.


dislikes:
-traffic/congestion is crazy.
-houses are expensive.