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Originally Posted by Maldive
"Many Torontonians are more like "getting screeched in... never heard of that!" or "WTF is the Brier?????"
^ yes it was time to unearth this classic myth... adored/celebrated by worldly, domestically-informed Vancouverites, Montrealers and even transplanted Ontarians who passed their Calgary entrance exam.
I was "Screeched" 1000 feet (300 metres?) above a fjord in Gros Morne, and I have made most of the folks in southern Ontario watch slideshows from my three coast to coast trips (never made it to the arctic). Everyone expected wheat, not vast forests and lakes in (northern) Saskatchewan.
Just sayin' I did my best, but new folks keep moving in and it's hard to keep up.
*The Brier is a rabbit right?
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Obviously we're not saying it's everyone in the GTA that is like this. We have die-hard CFL fans from the 416 on here, after all.
But I think one can generally observe in Toronto a lesser amount of knowledge and interest in the rest of the country than one normally finds in even the cockiest self-absorbed metropolises of the world.
I also think it's unfair to put this down to newcomers/immigrants. It's quite prevalent among multi-generational Torontonians, even those whose ancestry in the country goes back to the British colonial era.