Bayer
Senior Member
I walked through those squares today and I found them restful. Finding a place without breathless activity was a relief after the zoo around York and Bremner.
Who cares if there is a need for quiet and tranquil places for residences. Tranquility just doesn't stack up well against other cities.
Toronto has lots of under-used parks that are quiet and tranquil. There are places in the Leslie Street spit, that if you had a heart attack, they probably wouldn't find your body for years. Toronto has no lack of places to escape the city, especially along the river ravines.
Not everything needs to be whiz-bang-impress-the-visitors.
Nobody tell him where all the cool spots are. He must be left to languish in this miserable hell he's built for himself.Yeah, so where was that whiz-bang park/parks?
Sugar Beach is cool. So is Corktown Commons. Yorkville's park is a little shabby, but it's still fun. Some of the cemeteries, like the Necropolis and St James, are quite beautiful. The Brickworks. Scarborough Bluffs. The islands are gorgeous. The labyrinth is cute. I would be more than happy to take visitors to any of these places.
The Music Garden too. Man, I love that place.
All the parks you guys have mentioned are nice parks and most of them, I actually like but I wasn't talking about nice parks. What I was referring to was "whiz-bang" parks. I still haven't seen any Toronto park on a world's top 10 list and that's because right now, none qualify. Canada Square and Ontario Square were built on the cheap and you don't get great public spaces by going cheap.