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Toronto and Minneapolis are "comparable and appear quite similar." I'll let other posters comment on this.
Many posters here also think that NY is similar to Toronto. I don't think Minneapolis being similar to Toronto is so far fetched that you needed to bold and quote the statement while asking others to comment on it.
Most Canadians that would know about Minneapolis are ones that live in around Winnipeg in MB. I see a lot of MB license plates in Minneapolis.
Just for your knowledge and as a rule of thumb. If a city has all the professional sports: NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB - it is not a small town ... but a "significant" media market!
And if you don't mind me asking - how do you know so much about Toronto? Travelled there for work or lived in Toronto? I'll let you know that I'm from Toronto and went to UofT for my undergrad not too long ago ..
Minneapolis is a very nice city, but let's get real here -- it's a pastoral cowtown compared to Toronto.
Way to take the debate to the other extreme!
The Twin Cities feel somewhere between Vancouver and Montreal in terms of size. (I don't really care what the US Census says about MSA or CSA populations BTW.)
Needless to say, they aren't even close to Toronto in terms of bigness.
What superchef Anthony Bourdain really thinks of Toronto:
I’m intrigued by the fact that this is not a good-looking city … your English-Presbyterian past has not served you well architecturally. Like Sao Paulo, another city I really love, it’s not a place that looks anywhere near as cool as it really is.
What superchef Anthony Bourdain really thinks of Toronto:
I’m intrigued by the fact that this is not a good-looking city … your English-Presbyterian past has not served you well architecturally. Like Sao Paulo, another city I really love, it’s not a place that looks anywhere near as cool as it really is.
So some "chef" said Toronto's skyline is not not good looking enough for him? What are you trying to say? That now even kitchen chefs are qualified to be our city planners? Dude if you want to slam Toronto go somewhere else.
What superchef Anthony Bourdain really thinks of Toronto:
I’m intrigued by the fact that this is not a good-looking city … your English-Presbyterian past has not served you well architecturally. Like Sao Paulo, another city I really love, it’s not a place that looks anywhere near as cool as it really is.
You are of course entitled to your opinion like everyone else, but it is really tough to argue against the Toronto skyline being a solid 3rd in North America right now. The individual buildings themselves do not need to be anything special, but the collection of height and the way the city has clustered them together is pretty impressive. I was back in Toronto September for a few weeks and found myself looking up quite a bit and admiring the collection of buildings on more than a few occasions and I am not a huge "skyline" guy in general. Toronto is kind of similar to Panama City in that sense. You approach PC from the Ferry heading into Balboa Yacht Club and you find yourself staring and the endless collection of buildings from a far. They are mostly concrete monoliths (similar to how Toronto is alot of glass) but there are so many of them that you have to put aside your biases for a moment and admit it is a pretty amazing skyline.
On street level though Toronto is still not quite anything special. I was expecting the building boom to add alot more vibrancy at street level, but the improvements are smaller than I experienced. I still like quite a few cities better on the ground, both ascetically and vibe wise. That includes a few American cities like NYC, Chicago, SF, Boston and maybe even Philly. I have only been to Minneapolis once, but I do not think it is a match for Toronto street level at all, but as I said I have limited experience.
What superchef Anthony Bourdain really thinks of Toronto:
I’m intrigued by the fact that this is not a good-looking city … your English-Presbyterian past has not served you well architecturally. Like Sao Paulo, another city I really love, it’s not a place that looks anywhere near as cool as it really is.
What I've heard of Bourdain and Toronto being ugly is not primarily related to the skyline. It's more about the city at street level: commercial streets, etc.
If anything, Toronto's skyline is one of its best aesthetic attributes.
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