Detours along this route include High Park, Trinity Bellwoods Park, the Entertainment District (tourist trap), the Distillery district (tourist trap), Graffiti alley, and the Tulip Steakhouse.
This is honestly a pretty strange opinion to have. I've been overseas for weeks, including 3 weeks in Italy and 2 in France, and I noticed no such thing. Not the taste, not the pricing. Baffling.
I suppose it's easier to buy "factory meat" here but, hey, don't do that. I go to a local butcher who lists the local farm where stuff comes from and guess what, it's as good as anything.
Trinity Bellwoods is the tits on a nice day. Everyone just hanging out, drinking beers, smoking joints, playing sports, BBQing.
It's a great way to spend an afternoon. I had one of the best dates of my life there.
Victoria. 'Cause I live here
Pretty boring sometimes, but Seattle and Vancity are right there
It's nice how the police generally turn a blind eye to drinking in Trinity Bellwoods. They'll temporarily start cracking down when an uptight politician makes a fuss, but aside from that it's pretty much OK. They've got better things to do than write-up a bunch of docile hipsters.
Toronto should adopt the Montreal concept of being able to drink outside if you're having a "picnic".
All this Toronto hate lol.
Toronto is Canada's biggest and best city OP, don't listen to GAF.
Toronto. Tons of things to do, great nightlife, neighborhoods, restaurants. There's always something new every time I visit.Im looking to visit Canada and I have three optionsVancouver, Toronto, or Montreal
All three seem like great visits based on my research. Montreal seems to have more fans online. Vancouver has some amazing fine dining and Toronto has sheer diversity of locales.
What do you pick and why?
Come to Toronto. We have really good shawarma and falafels!
Or that people living there are following their city stereotypes too much.I think it's worth considering that if everyone you meet is mean, they might not be the problem.
There's also "Spread Eagle", "Come by Chance", "Heart's Delight", "Gay's Cove", and my fav "Bay d'espoir" (pronounced "Bay D'espair" -- literally the exact opposite of its meaning)
I live in Victoria and its pretty damn nice here. Beautiful and virtually zero crime. Lots of nice pubs. Lots of women.
Close, but Victoria is on Vancouver Island because that makes sense.Vancouver area is really nice, definitely my number 1. Victoria Island is gorgeous too.
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All this Toronto hate lol.
Toronto is Canada's biggest and best city OP, don't listen to GAF.
Alert, Nunavut.
Only was there for a research expedition and not sure what it's like living there. It's cool for the top of the world experience and if you want to pretend your in "The Thing". Otherwise Toronto I guess by default.
Hey my fellow KW citizen! Waterloo is an underrated city that gets over shadowed by the big cities surrounding it. I love it here!Of those three, generally I'd say Montreal for its culture and entertainment. Every time I'm there I think, "Why do I live in Kitchener-Waterloo again?" Not on the list, but I would recommend Québec City even more so for the full "European city in North America" experience, as others have mentioned. Both cities are great.
That said, I would also suggest checking out Hamilton. It's beautiful with tons of gorgeous trails and waterfalls, the arts scene on James North is great, it's cheap, it's got a lot of history (you can see canons lined up where they were pointed at American ships in the war of 1812, board a warship in the harbour from WWII and the Korean War, and so much more), and it's just all around an interesting city. People often call it Toronto's Brooklyn but I think that's not quite doing it justice. It's its own culture entirely.
It's also close to Toronto, so you could go back and forth on the bus/train and get the best of both worlds!
May I humbly make the case for:
Halifax!
Warning: Hali-fever is the flu.
Fun Facts about Halifax!
Fantastic Winter Tourism!
Enjoy the Dirty Ice Lumps Festival each spring (& summer)!
Enjoy one of Sir Donald Ayre's famous "Donairs"
Mmm! Doesn't that look delicious!
Halifax! At Least We're Not St. John's! (tm)
I've only ever lived in Halifax since I moved here, but it's great!
In addition to this, the harbour is great and you're like an hour away from watching amazing tide changes. It's my favourite thing here. You can literally walk on the ocean floor.
Yeah, okay.Windsor is like the worst city on the face of the earth.
OP said "city" thoughQuébec City
It's big and sprawling without feeling like a metropolis, and it has a fuckton of history and culture embedded in it. The Vieux Québec is just beautiful and has tons of restaurants, bars and shops to visit.
Québec City
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Uncle Testsu cheesecake = line up
Tsujiri = line up
Lady Marmalade = line up
Bonjour Brioche = line up
Sansotei Ramen = line up
Plenty of places in TO with line ups not to mention the stupid food fests where people pay to line up for subpar quantities of average food.
this is a strange response since i mentioned a local butcher as an example. agree to disagree i guess.I'm not talking about restaurants. Prices are pretty much the same (even cheaper now with the super low CAD). I'm talking about groceries. With the same budget in France or Spain I could buy so many more products and the difference in quality is night and day. Be it meat, poultry, cold cuts, yogurts, frozen products etc...
Honestly I feel like you could make bank in Canada if you launched a line of good quality food products.
I moved to Montreal from Mississauga (a suburb just outside of Toronto). Love Montreal. Personally I find people much easier to talk to here than back in the GTA. Been here a few years, though I do live in Dorval now to be closer to work.I recently moved to Montreal from Paris but I also spent some time visiting Toronto. My plan was originally to move to Toronto but the cost of life and the godawful transit made me chose Montreal instead. I'm happy with my choice, Montreal is really cool and fun, I live in a big apartment in a great neighborhood for basically nothing. But there's just one thing that is still bothering me is that I still struggle to meet people and make friends, granted i'm an introvert but both time I visited Toronto I made cool friends. Maybe it'll change soon but yeah for me I still struggle with the people here.