GavinR

Horrible place

chriscanada

Favorite city, cant see myself ever leaving.

dgagitw

Seconded. I think it really comes down to whether you're a country or city person. If you like cities, I can't see why you wouldn't like Toronto but, if you're a country boy/girl, I imagine you'd dislike it just as much as anywhere else with 5M residents.

dbd33

I'm a city person. I think Toronto's ok for a medium sized typical North American city, indistinguishable in most respects from Chicago, but it's not special in any way. More Birmingham than London. It is quite near New York and Montreal though so if you want an urban break, need to feel a bit of pace, there are places to go. And, it's not so far to Buffalo or Detroit if you're a shopping sort of person.

brizzle

I've never been to Toronto, so I'm not going to comment on that, but it did make me smile that the 2nd example given for the incredible variety of things to do in Toronto, involves leaving Toronto

Steve_

Two weeks, at least two days of which you are sat on the 401, 400 and/or Hwy 7 in Markham. The traffic put me off moving there. The other thing was that it's too much like the UK, why bother moving.

JamesM

You weren't the annoying english numpty at Louis Wings who wanted to chat about basketball were you?

Oink

You'll fit right in in Toronto.

JamesM

Toronto is a dull tourist destination.

People who visit me ask,"Why Toronto" and it's best put like this:

Toronto is crap to visit but nice to live in the same way that London is nice to visit but crap to live.

I personally enjoy my quality of life in the city versus other places I have lived.

However to visit Toronto for two weeks on holiday is simply stupid. I think with the exception of London, New York and Tokyo I would be fed up in any city as there is simply not enough to do.

Also why should the locals be nice to you? You are just another english person on holiday- ten a penny and certainly nothing special.

JamesM

Mmmmmm........the highway traffic in and around Toronto is not good.

But let's be honest there is like fifty times more stuff to do in Toronto than Calgary. Calgary should be twinned with Milton Keynes.

Oink

A bit of common decency?

JamesM

For an english person with a bad attitude........

morungos

I *love* living in Toronto. I get to see Queens Park from my office window, work 15 minutes from my house by subway, and live and work within minutes of great restaurants and wonderful things to do and see. We get Nuit Blanche, TIFF, Pride Week and Caribana, the ROM and the AGO, High Park, and the island. Not to mention all the great communities around the city, each of which has its own identity and distinctive charms.

I find Torontonians are usually very nice. They are sometimes pretty direct, but it is rare to see rudeness. People do tend to say what they mean. That was a bit of culture shock moving from the UK, where people would often avoid saying what they mean, but I actually kind of appreciate it now.

Yes, there are many other great places to live in Canada and elsewhere, but if you don't like the density of people and culture in Toronto, there's no need to hate on a place because your preferences are different to other people's.

Alan2005

I heard the locals pronounce it trawna. Does anybody know of a more ridiculous affectation for a place name in Canada?

dbd33

Go to the Hooker Harvey's at Jarvis and Gerrard. Don't give anything to the meth crazed beggar on the NW corner. There's your rudeness.