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Originally Posted by rousseau
Am I being aggressive? I guess I just find the incessant myopia on this board annoying sometimes.
Yes, I can certainly understand that many Germans would probably find Vancouver more appealing than Montreal for the reasons you mention. And while Toronto is my absolute favourite city in Canada, I'm under no illusions as to its beauty. It has tons of charm, and is visually appealing in lots of ways, but it's not beautiful per se.
Here's how beauty is defined: The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or colour, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.
What streets fulfill this definition? I can think of several in Montreal and Quebec City. I can think of none anywhere else that fulfill each aspect of the definition, particularly the part about artistry.
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I would like to speak out in defence of Rousseau, who was responding to a ''golly, gosh, gasp'' type of comment from JMT about Canada having many beautiful cities. I don't really see how anyone can say this is so, unless one a) has little knowledge of cities around the world or b) is blinded by patriotism.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but as Rousseau says there are still conventions of beauty that most people will agree upon.
Even the cities that Rousseau cited, Montreal and Quebec City, could best be described as the best of a mediocre lot. In a country reknowed for beautiful cities, they wouldn't really stand out at all. You know, if Frankfurt, the least loved German city, was magically placed in North America it would be considered one of the continent's most attractive cities!
Sure, Canadian cities are on the whole far better places to live than many of the world's most beautiful cities, which are often urban museum pieces offering a good quality of life to only the richest of the rich, while most everyone else there struggles to get by.
But please people, let's not fall in the trap of saying that Canada has *everything* and arguing naively and annoyingly with anyone that dares allude to the contrary.
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