Downtown Canada

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

The official designation is one thing, but the actual colloquial use of "downtown" in Toronto is a little more abstract (part geographical, part directional) - and which, depending on context can mean pretty much everything from High Park to Riverdale, south of Bloor; or just the immediate core.

I live around College & Ossington, which is not technically downtown, yet in a non-inner Toronto setting I'd still say I live downtown. But if I have to go to the Eaton Centre or something I'd say I'm going downtown. And if I'm headed home then I'm leaving downtown.

So, I'd accept either answer for most of those neighbourhoods with no real argument one way or the other.

Yeah exactly - it's a bit tricky in Toronto that way. I was chatting with my mom in Calgary today and she asked where I live in Toronto now. I said Brockton Village around College and Ossington (my tagline is out of date) and her response was "oh I love that part of downtown". But when I go to work I go downtown. For people who don't live in the city pretty much all of Old Toronto is "downtown".