NorthYorkEd
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Ah. So you live in downtown North York now, and want to move to post-amalgamation "midtown". I can see why someone would get fatigued with that. Those areas have busy roads, a so-so pedestrian realm, and are still very expensive.
Ah, but we are not fatigued...yet
But if you walk along, say, St Clair from just east of Bathurst to Yonge, and then up a few blocks, and compare it to the bombed-out section of "Beirut" that stretches on Yonge from Finch to Steeles, it is hard not to smile on parts of midtown. It has a beautiful streetscape. We are near Yonge and Sheppard, which has improved and continues to improve. But there is a geographical (and psychological) cut-off by the 401, and most of North York, quite frankly, looks like sh*t.
I guess I really don't know what city fatigue is.
I think what I was trying to describe is that moment when the crowds annoy more than enthral, when the noise of traffic, chatter, and endless construction seems to relentlessly chew on your brain rather than fade into the background, when you are hesitant to go outside because there are just too many people, too much noise, and there are too many crazy people out there just waiting to disrupt your life. When the very things that make a city exciting seem to make you depressed and afraid.
But again -- I am not feeling this. I just wonder if this is a day that will come, or has come, for anyone who has moved here from a smaller town or city.