Why I Hate Toronto #1
The GTA is too damn big and suburban sprawl is getting annoying. To visit friends I have to drive close to 150 km a day. Most people having to drive or commute to work who live outside downtown spend an average of 2.5 to 3 hours daily commuting. This is mentally unhealthy and stressful.
The 401.
The multicultural setup is such that people of diverse cultures live next to each other rather than amongst each other and hence barely get to know about each other.
Increase in street crime and gun shootings and violence. Over 40 people have been shot dead by mid year alone. Don’t know what the rest of the year holds for us. It’s getting worse.
Suburban area’s are getting increasingly “suburban” and losing identity. You end up having to drive to go the local corner store rather than walk.
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The part about HAVING to drive to the corner store is the one that gets me! If you aren’t lucky enough to live close to Eglinton or some other main street you pretty much do have to take some form of transit to visit a corner store.. supposedly a neighbourhood fixture…
Inter year stats a trend does not make. Even the Globe will admit this…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060629.wxcrime28/BNStory/National/home
What I hate in Toronto lately is the Fox News like coverage which HAS INCREASED. Toronto Violent Crime trends have actually decreased, as they have with most Canadian cities. Not to diminish any of the lossed lives or victims of crime recently but the “fear mongering” has to stop.
Attacking the roots of poverty and crime are the first steps toward a solution, not tasers, hollow points, or the death penalty. Take a look south and you’ll see why the U.S. boasts the world’s highest rate (5x the industrial world) despite falling in the mid range of incidence of actual crime. In relative terms, for the size of a city we are we are “lucky”.
Torontonians have something to complain about (crime, gun violence, etc) but the sky has not fallen, not yet anyway…