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I guess I'm part of the problem. Whenever someone asks me for my phone number I just give them the last 7 digits. They always say is that 416? I say the 416 is the default, if it's something else the people should say it. I've live here all my life and can remember we went to Buffalo for the weekends. Things have changed, they come here now for the weekend. And you can buy a beer without food. My parents moved to the US in the 80's and my Dad still says he misses Toronto, especially at NHL playoff time, since we get all the games here, not so in the US.
I think any country with a city that is close to a primate city will have resentment toward it from outside. Look at the situation in Thailand whereby Bangkok is the primate city and politically there are Bangkokians and everyone else. NYC, although large is tempered by a plethora of other large cities in the U.S like L.A, Chicago among a host of other large cities.
That's because Vancouver is a not really a BIG city, maybe in Canadian standard it is. Would Americans consider Seattle a BIG city? not really. maybe midsized.
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Originally Posted by afici0nad0
i like big cities.
i enjoy vancouver a lot, but i always find it too small for me (for whatever reason i can't explain).
I think any country with a city that is close to a primate city will have resentment toward it from outside. Look at the situation in Thailand whereby Bangkok is the primate city and politically there are Bangkokians and everyone else. NYC, although large is tempered by a plethora of other large cities in the U.S like L.A, Chicago among a host of other large cities.
I love Toronto, love many things from Toronto. I am a Chinese immigrant and have been lived here for quite a long time. My husband is a immigrant too, from Germany. We both compare Toronto with many other cities, Toronto is very good place to live;-)) Summer is good, winter is little bit tough but still interesting, you can do many winter things. we bothe love the 'winter wonderland" stuffs. Just snow shoving is little bit too much.
I miss Toronto. I've been living in the Southeastern U.S. for 10 years now.
I visit Toronto 2x a year.
It is just too expensive for us to consider moving back: The US $ tanked, Toronto housing has skyrocketed the last ten years and is still going up up up. But that's a matter of supply and demand. If Toronto wasn't so great, no one would want to live there. Then real estate would drop and the city would not continue to grow. Then it would become more affordable.
Toronto has good reason to be 'smug' about how good of a city it is. But if you don't like the hustle of large cities, you will never like Toronto. It's not for everyone.
Toronto is not the most expensive in Canada, Vancouver is. NYC has almost 4 times the population of Toronto so obviously it's GDP would be higher, but in Toronto that dip in GDP goes to free healthcare n almost free education plus toronto is much cleaner than NYC.
Ok..."Free" is not free. It is paid by taxes and government control/regulation. (Not to turn this into a political debate, but just hate it when people use the free. Nothing is free in life).
Toronto is great in the summer, but the winters are too cold. Overall it's kinda dull and boring though. I prefer Montreal in the summer over Toronto anytime of the year. I'm a native Chicagoan and lived in Toronto for about 10 years and now live in New York and now can't live anywhere else.
Just curious, why is it dull and boring?
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