The was the impression it left on me too. I was totally ready to move there until I was told that pretty lake freezes up in the winter.

I really loved it up there. Neat city. I love all the different cultures there, and the AWESOME FOOD! There is so much good food to be had in Toronto it's simply astounding. I just wish I had seen more when I was visiting there regularly. I hope one of the Tim's coffees you had was for me. I couldn't see why anyone would head into a Starbucks or the other chains when Tim's is so good and ubiquitous. Only a good Italian cafe tempted me with cappuccinos, otherwise it was Tim's (and I am a coffee fanatic).

Sigh, some day I will head back and spend some more time wandering about the city aimlessly.

I had a tims with double cream and 10 timbits this morning. 5 toasted coconut, 3 strawberry, and 2 apple fritter.

Where are you eekacat? I'm going to the falls tomorrow but have all of tomorrow night, friday morning and afternoon and all day saturday free.

I'm in Colorado pieoverdone. That's why I miss Toronto.

what part? i usually make it to co springs once a year. let's do shots.

You ought to try a nice Canadian city next time. [obligatory Western snark]

I'm in Golden. Shots it is!

I liked it there, but no one wanted to meet up!

We're overscheduled and insular and fickle and perhaps shy. And also stupidly overscheduled. Arranging dinner might easily be many weeks in advance and then everyone cancels because they got tickets to something. I love being in a city with so much culture and so much going on, but I feel like it sometimes overrides normal interaction. There is a lot of 'doing' and not as much 'being.'

Also, what Five Fresh Fish said. (Speaking as a native Torontonian.)

You know, there was this whole vibe in Toronto when I visited that the rest of the country considered it a foreign place, even another planet. And yet I saw it as this wonderful cultural playground. I grew up on the West Coast in Northern California, and have spent some time up in Western Canada. Western Canada has stuff that Toronto could only dream of. I guess it's part of accepting the differences and enjoying them. (At least it's not Alberta for gawds sake. hahaha) Vancouver is awesome, and the Rockies are beautiful, but Toronto has a lot of charms as well.

pieoverdone, let me know when you're coming out here. You can email me at my nick at that gmail place. I can't tell you the last time I had shots, but definitely beers and you can talk me into shots! hahaha.

And dang, interrobang visiting, and Toronto can't work up a meetup? He's one of the most interesting dudes mefi/mecha has to offer!

I really need to get back there, it's only a six hour drive from where we live. We were up there for our Honeymoon four years ago but that happened to be during the big east coast blackout so everything was closed for half our visit.

If you thought Toronto was nifty you should check out Montreal. The food is much better (those french sure know how to eat!) and the culture is much more cosmopolitan than TO. Of those two cities Montreal is my favourite by far even though TO is the one I visit most.

I'm originally from Dallas, Texas and I've lived in Canada now for eighteen years. Eighteen... Man, how time does fly!

Since 1996 I've lived in Toronto and I love it. I love other parts of Canada, too. This old comment of mine says it all:

"CANADA! I have friends in Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Ottawa and many points between...I've criss-crossed this country on trains, planes, cars and busses... I've dipped my foot in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a salute to Terry Fox... I've eaten gourmet meals in Montreal and gone ice fishing in Canmore, Alberta in minus 30 (c) weather... I've rampaged through the nightclubs of downtown Toronto and I've sat quietly on docks in cottage country, watching the sunset shimmering pink & purple on the lake... I've imbibed 8,000,000 beers and been thrown out of bars in Halifax... I've smoked the infamous 'B.C. Bud' in Vancouver, British Columbia... I've driven through the Autumnal splendor of Eastern Ontario and I've flown over the snow-capped Canadian rockies and I felt so happy, so damn happy watching my adopted country stretching on below me, the lights of the mountain towns winking up from the darkness. The day I became a Canadian Citizen was one of the happiest & proudest days of my life: in a room with thirty other people from 24 different countries, all jubilant, all come to Canada for a better life. Everywhere I've gone in this country the people have been not gregarious or boisterous but friendly, warm and genuine. This country is a comfortable place to live. I love this country and its people more than I could ever say. Canada has taken me in, welcomed me with open arms and made me feel accepted, wanted and loved. I plan to live here forever. Canada is Home."