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Originally Posted by thurmas
Toronto is not like New York, Toronto has had zero important historical moments,it doesn't have an urban character like New Yorkers do and it tries far to hard to be similar to American cities instead of just being itself which is a successful but bland economic major centre.Bland can be good Toronto is very stable and wealthy and realatively safe but what I am trying to say as a city Toronto doesn't have the history or character of a New York, Chicago or even Montreal.
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Considering you draw upon such important characteristics of cities such as the colour of their football teams to compare them, surely the city's status as the country's biggest city and economic centre, cultural centre, most diverse, having the most skyscrapers, etc, etc. would be enough to make it the equivalent of "Canada's New York"? If you want to compare any country's collection of cities to America's, the biggest will pretty much always be the NYC-equivalent. Similarly, if you were to ever compare a country's cities to Canada's, their largest would be..."_____'s Toronto". Frankly the whole exercise is tiring and pointless (always seems to come up here every few months...), but that part at least should be pretty clear.
And Atlanta, really? Aside from neither being close to their countries equivalent, the built form, architecture, demographics, culture, history, topography, infrastructure, and climate are about as far from each other as possible.
I'll otherwise just ignore the "blah blah Toronto is bland" stuff. Seem too deep rooted a Canadianism to ever bother attempting to change (despite its inherent irony).
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