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Originally Posted by Acajack
You make some good points but making it personal about me detracts from them as usual.
I agree with much of what you said but on the other hand it's still true that people from Halifax, Winnipeg, Sudbury, etc. will know Toronto better than most Torontonians will know those cities better in return.
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it's still true that people from Halifax, Winnipeg, Sudbury, etc. will
THINK THEY know Toronto better than most Torontonians will know those cities better in return.
I fixed that for you.
Here's the deal, Toronto is the big cheese. People pay attention to it, it doesn't mean they know it. They just know
more about it. It certainly doesn't mean they have more experience of it than Torontonians do of other places. Torontonians pay attention to their city more because well maybe it's a character defect or maybe they just have better things than trying to figure out the zeitgeist of [insert Canadian city name here].
I mean honestly do you think people from those places (or any other place) know Quebec more than Quebec knows about them or do you think maybe they think they know more based on whatever media outlet they pay attention to?
I think if all some Canadians do is automatically think TORONTO grrrr TORONTO grrrr TORONTO as a few posters on this forum do, it says more about them (and their need for a nice calming anti-axiety drug) than it does about Toronto. Torontonians don't obsess about their city nearly as much as other Canadians (at least here) do.