Rate This City: Day 18 - Toronto

[Tom Foolery]

why don't you move then? or move to MTL, Vancouver?

If I spoke French I would give MTL a real good thought.

 

[Tom Foolery]

It is nothing like what you see on those pics. The city boasts about being "multiculturalism" but races are divided, and how they live are divided by race. Housing prices are super expensive because they value international buyers from china grabbing real estates for profit and outstretching average citizens. Blacks are especially discriminated against in employment, and housing, and this is why the crime rate is high in the black community. It is a city of half/halfnots. It is cold and miserable for half the year, and the summer time they have sticky hot and humid couple of months. It's city filled with lame posers that imitate the American culture excessively.

If you're black, and ranking this city high, and I don't know.

Black people only have ourselves to blame. We had the chance to seriously invest and didn't.

 

[MikelArteta]

only city 2 cities i can give a 10. NYC and London

my man london is the goat city

 

[Tom Foolery]

Toronto is a solid 7, but declining.

We had a chance to be 8 or 9, but too much mismanagement has dragged us and will continue to drag us down.

A lot of people living fake lives here. 15-20 years from now everything will be fully exposed.

 

[MikelArteta]

Black folk for the most part are not seen in high ranking positions and many are overqualified for the position they're in. There is a ceiling set for black folk.

yep
if it wasnt for city jobs and ttc

 

[Tom Foolery]

And whats with all these fake constructions projects all across the GTA?

As soon as they are halfway done a road, they start another two more.

 

[Rich Spirit]

7

cool city to visit. Can't see myself living there

 

[UberEatsDriver]

If I spoke French I would give MTL a real good thought.

Everyone in Montreal can speak English but the highway signs are in French so that sucks

 

[Child_Of_God]

@Son_Of_God

You gonna Montreal?

yes, I will do Montreal soon.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

It's really a matter of perspective. Suburbs are divided.... But the city is very multicultural. mixed race couples everywhere. The issue with affordability has more to do with lack of supply and Wynne government innacting rent controls. Yes foreign ownership is a problem, but not as much as people say. I know a lot of buyers who are from here. I told yall years ago to buy property.

The weather isn't bad. You get all the different seasons. I find the winters in the city aren't nearly that bad. Not a lot of snow. Yea the odd time it's cold but get a Goose and you're good. The summers can be unbearable at times though. The humidity is on another level.

Traffic and public transportation are shyt. Property Taxes high. Anything to do with home ownership and renting is very expensive. Salaries for the most part aren't that great. A lot of educated people here are underpaid.

Lots of Chinese, Indians, Persians, You will literally see everything here. Not many latinos though. Big LBGTQ community here.

All kinds of food here. Whatever you want, you can find it. Many festivals, restaurants, great hotels. Crime is pretty low, people are either friendly or a$$holes, really depends where you go. A lot of that IMO has to do with new immigrants and lack of assimilation into the culture. There's an undercurrent of racism and xenophobia now. Like folk just put up with each other rather than accepting each other.

Black folk for the most part are not seen in high ranking positions and many are overqualified for the position they're in. There is a ceiling set for black folk.

I see more Latinos in Toronto now than I ever did. Very regularly. You are right about the city and suburb demos being different. Can't compare them at times. The city core is multicultural

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

I gave it a 7, wanted to give it an 7.5 but -0.5 for just being too damn cold.

I got buddies that went there for college and it's a really fun place to be in. Kinda like the NYC of Canada but with Chicago weather. If you live in any NE American city or Chicago then Toronto will feel very natural to you. It would be less of a cultural shift than if one went to Montreal or Quebec City, the French-Canadian cities.

Really multicultural city that's especially fun in the summer when the temperature is much more manageable. My big drawback with the city is that the place is mad feminized. You see this particularly in the nightlife. Toronto chicks are similar to Aussie women in that regard.

I do think more people should check it out it's like a 2 hour flight from any city on the NE corridor and your dollars will go slightly further as well.

All in all, a good city. Like a sleepy version of NYC

Could you go more into detail with this breh?

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Black people only have ourselves to blame. We had the chance to seriously invest and didn't.

That part.

We been here not buying property. Not employing ourselves. From times when they city WAS affordable.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Been to Toronto once. Mad clean. Other than that nothing memorable. 6

 

[JLova]

Black people only have ourselves to blame. We had the chance to seriously invest and didn't.

Absolutely. we late to the game on this shyt. My problem though is I took that step and bought a lot and now I have Becky and Chad career waiters tryna tell me that I need to subsidize their rent cuz they can't afford it. Like, I'm a black man that grew up in a single parent household having society tryna tell me I aint shyt...but I'm now suppose to feel bad for enttitled twite kids who had a huge headstart on life than I did? Fk outta here!

The affordability issue and Libs bending over backwards to help is for white people. They don't give a shyt about black folk struggling to afford homes. Remember that.

 

[phcitywarrior]

Could you go more into detail with this breh?

Yep.

Best way to put it is this.

Whatever your image is of radical feminists, then just imagine Toronto with a lot of that”. Same with Aussies. A lot of the Australian women I met out in Cambodia were some of the least feminine in a traditional sense.