News   Dec 20, 2024
UrbanToronto Year-End Poll: Vote on the Best Buildings of 2024, presented by Sapphire Balconies
 1K     5 
News   Dec 20, 2024
UrbanToronto's Social Media Presence Skyrocketed in 2024
 790     2 
News   Dec 20, 2024
Mattamy Homes Records A Year of Accomplishments
 1.5K     0 

Why does Canada hate Toronto? We want love! :(

Status
Not open for further replies.
Cancerous said:
and why are you doing the same?
Click to expand...

By the way, I couldn’t help but notice that you posted all this @ 11:34 on a Saturday night, so I strongly suggest that you go get a life! You really should’ve been out enjoying the beautiful breezy weather yesterday instead of staring at your screen indoors posting angry posts.
Click to expand...

The point being, you shouldn't be lecturing people about their posting times when the same could be done to you.

I've been to all of them except the gaybourhood and they don't stay open till 2AM, they just simply don't.
Click to expand...
Yet more confirmation you've likely never set foot in this city.
 
The point being, you shouldn't be lecturing people about their posting times when the same could be done to you.
Click to expand...
There is a big difference between 11:30 on a Saturday night and 3:30 on a Sunday afternoon.

If you're using Clubland as a benchmark, you're not half as sophisticated as you pretend you are...
Click to expand...
You don't even sound sophisticated, let alone be one...
 
I live in Mississauga (unfortunately) - Mavis and Eglinton area and I'm moving to Toronto this September. I work downtown.
 
allabootmatt said:
At the end of the day, Toronto and Montreal are two fantastic cities that are more similar than they are different, with respective strengths and weaknesses that are actually quite complementary. Canada is lucky to have them both. That's how I conceive of things, and I think that's how the vast, vast majority of other Torontonians do also. The strain of Toronto-bashing which persists in (mostly Anglo) Montreal is, in addition to being based on the most absurdly outdated caricatures of a stodgy "Toronto-the-good," as sure-fire an indication of deep civic insecurity as you will ever find anywhere. Losing the position of national superiority Montreal once enjoyed is traumatizing, just as it was in a place like Melbourne or St Petersburg, cities with very similar complexes vis-a-vis the cities which supplanted them. You should hear how Melburnians and Petersburgers talk about Sydney and Moscow. If you changed all the nouns, it could be Canada. What you are demonstrating to us is a classic case of second city syndrome.
Click to expand...

All very true and well said.

On the whole, I find that Montreal anglophones are often envious of Toronto and the older generation is still bitter, and that can translate in "I hate Toronto" comments.

On the other hand, Montreal francophones, while envious to a certain degree, are more genuily impress and even admirative of Toronto's successes. I don't know anyone among my friends who hate Toronto. We all love it.
 
Cancerous said:
I live in Mississauga (unfortunately) - Mavis and Eglinton area and I'm moving to Toronto this September. I work downtown.
Click to expand...

And you're exactly the demographic Clubland caters to, or is at least derided for catering to. Bored Mavis & Eglintonners...
 
To freshcutgrass,

I just noticed your comment below in a previous page and I completely missed it…

Toronto also "acted" the part...which is why it had far more impressive buildings and skyscrapers than Montreal.
Click to expand...


And Montreal didn’t “act†the part?

The above statement is not fair at all and I’ll tell you why…
First of all, Montreal has a height limit of 200m on all its buildings, which is the elevation of Mount Royale, so that limits what architects can do with tall structures.
Secondly, we don’t know what kind of buildings would have been built had Montreal remained to be the economic centre of Canada prior to the Quiet Revolution in the 1960’s.

In spite of that, the city has some truly impressive buildings and sites to witness; I mean they created a man-made island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River for God’s sakes!
The Olympic Stadium looks far more impressive than the Rogers Centre in my opinion, especially when you consider that it’s the tallest slanted structure and stadium in the world.
Have you seen anything in the world that looks like the Biosphere?
What about Habitat 67?
Even churches, is there any church in Toronto that has the same grandeur as St. Joseph’s Oratory? It’s the biggest church in Canada and has the second biggest dome in the world after St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. Notre Dame Basilica looks just as fabulous if not better.
Who has more geographical coverage with more impressive stations, the Montreal Metro or the Toronto Subway?
What about the Westmount City Hall? The Museum of Fine Arts? The Casino?
 
And you're exactly the demographic Clubland caters to, or is at least derided for catering to.
Click to expand...

Your supposed sophistication and hypocrisy truly disgusts me…
Let me remind you of what has been said prior to me saying a word in this thread:

Just go outside of Toronto's ring of influence like cities like Barrie, bunch of philistine ignorant jock farmers. Thats the real reason they hate us, because we've moved along with the world and they've just been twiddling their thumbs looking up their own behinds and saying how wonderful the air is up there in their colons.
Click to expand...

montreal isnt that special, just full of pretentious assholes
Click to expand...

All this and nobody bats en eyelash, but when I say something, all hell breaks loose and I get a warning from the moderator… talk about insecurity, eh?


Bored Mavis & Eglintonners...
Click to expand...
Forgive me if I reside in Mavis and Eglinton and not in God's gift to humanity, the City of Toronto.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top