JGHali
Active Member
However, the city feels like it lacks soul and the city's people are pretty uptight. There's no sense of history either. The cultural scene isn't that great. It's an excellent place to make money but I wouldn't call it world class.
As was said of Vancouver above...
If you want a "sense of history" in Canada, you can go to Quebec, the Maritimes, or (perhaps especially) Newfoundland. Ontario - to say nothing of the West - is something of a recent creation and the "sense of history" reflects that.
As for the cultural scene, there is a substantial cluster of art, filmmaking, music ("serious" and popular), and post-secondary institutions that make for a very significant "scene" in Toronto, certainly more than any other Canadian city.
Yep, pretty much.
I may be a hater, but I'm also being a realist. Toronto is a good city, but the lack of an authentic culture and real people sucks. While I've found great people in Toronto, I've also found the city's atmosphere to be dry and unfriendly. It doesn't compare to other cities in terms of how "alive" it feels. Also, the hipsters in Toronto are some of the most annoying people I've met, and the political correctness in this city is insane.
I dunno, it feels pretty alive standing in Dundas Square on a Friday afternoon in the summer. Or while wandering around King West later that night.
Where in the world are hipsters not annoying? Although Toronto does have skeet hipster families which I find very weird.