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<title>rl</title>
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It's still the cleanest subway I've ever been on...


You obviously haven't been on a lot of suways.]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:23 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>tony</title>
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born and rasied here.
loved this city once ,can,t stand it now 
bring back the 70s.
wasp.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:43:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>4n0nym0u5</title>
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There used to be a ride at Canada's Wonderland called the Wilderbeast. It was a rollercoaster on a wooden framed track, great ride, but it felt as if any second you were going to die.  That's how I feel everytime I ride the MTL Metro.  So whoever said their trains are better than T.O's is sadly mistaken. Also, they're about as wide as a hummer. Now, that's not a bad thing if it's a vehicle on the road, but not nearly wide enough for a train. ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:21:11 PST</pubDate>
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<title>dbl shadow</title>
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i suppose toronto is nice. It has a robust economy. it is multicultural. 

I just have huge issues with its public services - which will only worsen under the ablerta-based, suburban + upper-middle-class focussed government. sigh.

Also, the architecture is a continued letdown, failing to contribute or enhance the city. ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:03:07 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Ross A</title>
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@ shadow

That is my point, as far as large cities go Toronto is fantastic.

Incredibly multicultural, safe and friendly. I guess you end up disliking wherever you live but Toronto really is a gem of a city and anyone is lucky to live their.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:41:27 PST</pubDate>
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<title>dbl shadow</title>
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@ Ross A

toronto should be compared with other cities its size (especially those enlightened europeans and montrealers), not small towns. Once you do that, you will see its shortcomings, kitsch, lame design, poor transit etc. 

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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:47:25 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Ross A</title>
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Although i do not live in Toronto 'yet' i honestly think that the city is fantastic.

Maybe it is because i live in Glasgow where your neighbor is more likely to have a party at 3Am then spew up on your door step than actually strike up a conversation.

but the city itself has so much going for it, many green spaces, millions of options when you are eating out and some of the friendliest customer service i have ever had.

Maybe you guys miss the 'Small Town' niceties but big cities just don't have that in my opinion. However i still think that it is a fantastic city and many of the recent comments only focus on the slight down points of living in a Big City not specifically Toronto !!]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:35:00 PST</pubDate>
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<title>dbl shadow</title>
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toronto is a lame city. from its architecture, to its inhabitants, to its public transport. we have an awful rep across Canada. Sadly, the alberta-based  government has ensured that toronto will remain a lame city. Toronto appears to be a place for people who dont give a shit aside from earning money, and withdrawing into their condos. 

JT is correct about montreal - basically any self respecting city of TO size has great public space + architecture, and a nice public transport system to boot.  (and the museum station IS ATROCIOUS!!!) Toronto needs to stop considering its public transport system as an isolated lost cause. They need to use it to leverage better development - (basically what montreal has done) Instead, The TTC is a separate, forgotten system, unincorporated into developments or the public realm. I blame backward-thinking councilors who dont have any balls to build this city WITH developers, not FOR them.  
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:54:56 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Chris</title>
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Gone are the days of McCallum, Davis, Crombie, and Robarts.

Where are the men (and women) of vision today?]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:39:49 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Equalizer</title>
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syntaxerr0r,  I seem to find that the Europeans I've known who've visited Toronto are not really impressed and almost never make a second visit--if they do it's not because of the city.  Isolated communities is an understatement, how about few people who actually see, know, or greet their neighbours or strangers.  Nothing like European towns/villages where families spread out over kilometres have known each other for generations.  I desperately miss the European niceties and courtesies.  Here we probably have 75% of the courtesies that Europeans have and they are used about 5% as much (usually only when money is involved).  Having cafes and terraces would be no point other than for tourists as the average person in Toronto is probably second only to the Japanese in living for work.  A reasonable amount of work to go around and polite (uninvolved) people rank very low on my list; I don't particularly care for a high standard of living and ultra-low quality of life.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:49:46 PST</pubDate>
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<title>syntaxerr0r</title>
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I recently moved to Toronto from Europe and I must admit I'm quite disappointed. The so-called diversity is more like a succession of closed communities who can't be bothered to speak English or even talk to one another. My (suburban) area is predominantly populated by Chinese and Koreans who seem to despise everybody else (racist immigrants, oh the irony), my neighbours wouln't even piss on me if I was on fire. I'm beginning to wonder what torontonians like in here. Seems things have changed a lot in the past 5 to 10 years, not for the better. Condo development gone crazy, isolated communities not participating in anything common, architectural ugliness everywhere and the feeling the City has sold its soul to corporate lawyers. My biggest gripe is the disaster area by the lake. Any sane city management would take advantage from being on a lake shore by making it a prime spot for cafes, terrasses and small shops, but no, it's all derelict industrial buildings, factories and the odd ugly-dirty walkway. No landscaping, nothing to make you appreciate the location, no place to chill out after work, zilch, nada.

As for the TTC... hum... what a joke. The subway may be clean-ish but it's fugly and slow. No dedicated bus lanes (no wonder they're always late), streetcars that look like they were built 40 years ago stuck in traffic, erratic service... COME ON! Europe might have its problems but at least we know how to run public transports there.

But it's not so bad in some aspects, especially for those who want to work and most people are polite, a nice change. But please, hire some landscape artists and decent architects to make the place less of an eyesore!
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:50:17 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Sherry</title>
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I can't get over the nurse comment. What does JT do that he thinks $55 000 is an exorbitant starting salary? I'm not saying it's chump change, but for what nurses do, it's low. And if we pay our nurses so well, why do so many spend half the year working in the U.S.?

But then I don't put any creed into his other points either.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:07:11 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Ross A</title>
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Well i am from Glasgow Scotland and am emigrating to Toronto in the summer.

All i gota say is i cant wait to get their !!!

The city is fantastic, clean, friendly and bustling with life.

Trust me if you want no-go areas, roving gangs, filthy  streets and horrible people come to Glasgow.

Your city is in a league of its own :-)]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:16 PST</pubDate>
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<title>tony</title>
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born and raised here and i want out.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:33:06 PST</pubDate>
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<title>tripper</title>
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" remember a town where you could stroll down Yonge St and drop into any number of clubs offering excellent live music from name groups. None exist now. "

You're joking, right? There are a ton of music clubs in Toronto. The fact that they're not all on Yonge St. is bad? Toronto is more than just Yonge St.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:17:13 PST</pubDate>
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<title>littleblackduck</title>
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Park Slope and it's 'mommy mafia' is a bad example.  
Toronto's biggest problem is that there are so many areas that are just left to rot. Still far too many boarded up, graffiti-and-grime covered buildings.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:00:07 PST</pubDate>
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<title>aahhrrgg</title>
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'staid, waspy, whitebread?  What town are you remembering?
I remember a town where you could stroll down Yonge St and drop into any number of clubs offering excellent live music from name groups.  None exist now. 
Rochdale was anything but staid.  It's gone.  
There was a profusion of great record stores, Sam's, Round Records, Wheels, all gone.
There were no gangs, no shootings, no awful Dundas Square, no rap, and no amalgamated city.
And good hash was five dollars a gram!
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:26:25 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Paul Craig</title>
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I grew up in Toronto in the 60's and remember it as great experience. The city that I see now is dysfunctional and fractured.The fault lies with the people of Toronto,who like sheep to the slaughter keep electing fools who only have one agenda - themselves. Yes folks - the loony left rules in Toronto. Council support of the arts that no one goes to see, school boards that ruled by unions and groups lined up with their hands out. Toronto lurches from crisis to crisis without a plan - but the politicians seem to be able to come up with money for raises for themselves, and damn the taxpayer. Businesses are fleeing the city for the 905 - both east and west. Home owners do enjoy lower taxes in relation to what they own. The list goes on and on and on.........]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:07 PST</pubDate>
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<title>warmflash</title>
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Poor sad Toronto.  

Once upon a time, a shining city on hill, today,  sallow, pot marked, run almost entirely by real estate developers, their lawyers and heavily unionized bureaucrats ? most of whom don?t even live here. Abandoned by all levels of government and more importantly, by most of its own citizens.  Torontonians, despised by the rest of country, have been orphaned; left to drown in a sea shootings ( that no one ever seems to witness ) , gangs, drugs, trash filled streets, pollution, mediocre architecture, endless gridlock, restaurants over-run by rats and virtually no urban planning.  A City Hall, so utterly dysfunctional it harkens back to New York?s infamous Tammany Hall.  A Provincial Government ? head quartered in Toronto ? that may as well be in White Horse.  And a Federal Government ? who increasingly appear without purpose or direction -- only know Toronto as a plump cash cow to be gutted at will.  As a dumping ground for thousands of legal and illegal immigrants, many of whom refuse to speak or learn English, obey the traffic laws, or leave their neighborhood ghetto?s, the atmosphere is tense, suspicious, indifferent and in variably hostile.  The streets are awash with mentally ill or drugged addicted beggars who threaten you for cash at every turn. You think twice about going to the corner store most days, knowing you?ll encounter a crazy person who is ticking like a time bomb.  

And now the bad news. Imagine a city, and a people so ruptured, they can?t even muster the political will to do something as simple and fundamental as clean the lake, to make it safe for swimming.   



It?s no surprise Toronto rated 14 on the Stat?s Can list of ? most desirable places to live in Canada.  ?   Toronto really is the town that fun forgot.  

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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:21:23 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Jeff B</title>
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"Toronto is a big city with big city problems, we can all agree. But no matter what Simpson says, it remains a great city, and I wouldn't rather live anywhere else."

Having been to TO half a dozen times before 9/11 (sadly not since), I'd rather live there too, than here in metro Detroit.  :P  Perhaps there is some perspective lost there?]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:48:05 PST</pubDate>
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