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Old Jan 23rd 2014 | 4:25 am
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Feb's edition of Toronto Life provides some area descriptors? Wondering how accurate they are and, if the description fits any BE-ers (not necessarily from TO)...!
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Feb's edition of Toronto Life provides some area descriptors? Wondering how accurate they are and, if the description fits any BE-ers (not necessarily from TO)...!
Can't read them.
 
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Can't read them.
Yes it's a bit small. Not sure how to get a large picture of the cover. Maybe someone else will be along with an idea...

The captions are obviously tongue in cheek, but I'm guessing they're not totally out of character (like calling Clapham Nappy Valley or something). Do recognise from the map what the divisions are? Postcodes, wards, I want to try and cross reference it with the names of areas too...
 
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Originally Posted by Shard
Yes it's a bit small. Not sure how to get a large picture of the cover. Maybe someone else will be along with an idea...

The captions are obviously tongue in cheek, but I'm guessing they're not totally out of character (like calling Clapham Nappy Valley or something). Do recognise from the map what the divisions are? Postcodes, wards, I want to try and cross reference it with the names of areas too...
I expanded the picture but the resolution isn't good enough to withstand it. Toronto Life is pretty lame so I'd expect the captions to offer the level of biting satire one finds in the Reader's Digest.
 
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Originally Posted by Shard
Yes it's a bit small. Not sure how to get a large picture of the cover. Maybe someone else will be along with an idea...

The captions are obviously tongue in cheek, but I'm guessing they're not totally out of character (like calling Clapham Nappy Valley or something). Do recognise from the map what the divisions are? Postcodes, wards, I want to try and cross reference it with the names of areas too...
The main division is of course between Ford Nation and The Rest. A superficial view, to say the least, but one which is probably an inevitable consequence of Mike Harris's term as Premier in Ontario back in the mid 90's to early naughties.

The idiot amalgamated all the independent units of Inner Greater Toronto into a single City. This might have been a good idea if accompanied by some investment in the transition, but of course it wasn't.

The result was a permanent conflict between Toronto itself, where, in general, the (by Canadian standards) sophisticated activities take place, and the dreadful not-so-outer suburbs where the lumpen proletariat stuff fast food and Timmies down their bloated throats and argue about distribution territories.

I note that Richmond Hill holds itself above all this.
 

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