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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Rather oddly, one of the things I loved about Southern Ontario is that it isn't mountainous. This means that there are hundreds of different cities and towns to explore which are usually quite nice with old brick & stone buildings. The thing is is that you can go from town to town driving literally thousands of km of roads and never take the same road twice unlike BC valleys where you go anywhere and you essentially always have to take the same road back.
Just goes to prove there is no such thing as a perfect solution.
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This is a good point and I agree. I love driving and exploring back roads and different towns and that sort of thing. BC has some absolutely incredibly scenic, and really fun drives - just the Sea-to-Sky up to Squamish is one of my favourite that I've done, anywhere, for instance. But you're right that the available routes are somewhat limited. Without having to get on a ferry, there are basically two routes out of Vancouver, and the distances to get anywhere that aren't on one of those two routes can be pretty long (ie. not really feasible for a day trip).
Southern Ontario on the other hand has a dense grid of roads and is full of picturesque little towns a stone's throw from each other, but the comparatively flat landscape makes for a lot of straight and not particularly interesting drives. The near-north (Muskoka, Haliburton, Parry Sound, Ottawa Valley) is a lot more fun for this sort of thing.
What I find myself getting jealous of from time to time are places like New England, or the broader Appalachian region. Tons of scenic routes winding through the mountains, and it's still densely populated with historic towns and country roads.
