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Canadian city described as an 'insane asylum' filled with homeless people, noise, and cultural disconnection that makes the author yearn to move to Europe

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"Shout out to the nice clerk at the Toronto Patagonia."
"Been gropped 3x in the past 6 months in Toronto. Once by an older white man, Church st (gayborhood) on Halloween in my basically naked costume. The other times in the club by young Indians, fully lifting up my skirt and copping a feel."
Touched in Toronto · Rubysuckss · ↑407 · 2025-02-04
"I have a few friends in LA and Toronto. Some of them are routinely commuting 1-2 hours a day for work almost everyday. There's even a guy who commutes almost 3 hours to work everyday in the Toronto area."
How do people live with 1-2 hour commutes? · u/ThrowawayT890123 · ↑342 · 2025-01-01
"Anyway, our modern councilors here in Toronto only heard 'delay' 'abolition' without knowing any of the history and are happy to drop $13 mill [when our city is already in crippling debt]"
"not even kidding 😕 it's on what's known as toronto's weirdest street (see pics as for why. incredibly small houses—all under 46m^2 that all touch w a 42m weird fence that runs the entirety of the one side of the street. if u can call it a street. width is like 12 feet). it's in east toronto (not sca"
1.153 Million Dollar Home In Toronto · u/sharifhusseinibnali · ↑261 · 2024-09-21
"Americans are always accused of being narcissists for thinking they are the center of the world, but I'm beginning to realize people from Toronto are worse."
"Canadian here. I've been noticing in interesting trend in the Greater Toronto Area for like over a year now. I keep meeting English people, usually middle class professional families who are moving here because living in the UK is more or less untenable."
What happened to England? · u/DewiAustin · ↑242 · 2023-05-03
"R.I.P. luckily this stuff is easily replaceable👍👍. Unfortunately there is no mystery to these perfectly natural fires and noone should question them. Canadacells what the heck is going on?"
"The thing is I am 2nd Generation Torontonian Diaspora. When my parents came from Toronto to America they were marginalised for their accent and culture. So its pretty insulting how its trendy to culturally appropriate it."
"Its like Canadians are determined to be the most pathetic culture in the g8"
"Took Air Canada from Toronto to Munich. Better, although still one small meal on a 9 hour flight with one drink/water service and the FAs never responding when you press the button for their help. Compare that to my flight on Bangladesh Airlines from Dhaka to Toronto."
There is zero reason why North American airlines are this bad · u/fastbus2018 · ↑174 · 2024-05-24
"I think it's that Canadian culture is already quite shallow combined with everyone in Toronto being either a transplant from somewhere else or from a distant, dead suburb gives the city an overwhelmingly vacant feeling. The whole city just feels uncanny. You have everything in Canada orbiting around"
Toronto Canada has a dark vibe that no one talks about · u/CorporateGenXCyber · ↑162 · 2023-05-12
"I am like the only person walking alone in this entire city. I want to some huge Italian festival downtown Toronto and I was the only person there by myself."
Finding a job is so depressing · u/Off-Stock7531 · ↑152 · 2024-06-16
"I like smiling at people, making human connections. I walk some busy areas in Toronto and they are enjoyable if people look up to see you, makes you not feel invisible, like youre part of society. Today was so bad I just came home early. No one looked at me at all."
Day ruined because no one looked at me · u/HamiedianBeker · ↑138 · 2023-11-20
"I cry and get upset at the most minimal things. I am also am so utterly profoundly impacted by art. Legit bawled at the Van Gogh immersive art experience in Toronto."
Anyone else an extremely emotional little bitch? · u/Moonshine_113 · ↑130 · 2023-02-18
"Once married, couple moved to a penthause in downtown Toronto that Jordan has purchased for Mikhaila."
A Timeline of the Mikhaila Peterson Disaster · si117 · ↑126 · 2021-11-20
"I have been unemployed since September of last year, and I am loosing my mind. I have sent over 200 applications this past month alone. I've written hundreds of cover letters, customized my resume for jobs I was applying for, sent follow up emails, had meeting with employment agencies, and spent hou"
I hate Canada! · u/SuccessfulOil4185 · ↑110 · 2025-07-16
"I'm 23, autistic and a virgin. I live in the suburbs of Toronto, and went downtown for the first time in years to buy something at a computer shop. For the first time in my life a girl smiled at me when in the store, and I have been thinking about it for months."
Excuses to go downtown? · u/FinnishMinopian · ↑106 · 2022-08-25
"Then all of a sudden this afternoon I get a text telling me she has to go back to BC because her little brother had gotten mauled by a bobcat and was in serious condition. I just dropped her off at the airport for her flight to Toronto."
Heartbroken · u/AirbusAWS · ↑96 · 2025-08-11
"I pay $1700 in Toronto for a very modest 1 br and can barely keep my head above water. I'm thinking about moving back in with my parents in Durham and commuting four hours a day."
Canadian housing crisis thread · u/sirenboi12 · ↑95 · 2022-01-15
"You are no longer welcome at the center run by Elizabeth Fry Society here in Toronto."
My favourite piece of legal writing · twerkingwistfully · ↑88 · 2022-08-07
"Having to stay there for a few days for work. This is the worst city I've been to in North America, wtf Canada..."
I hate hate hate Toronto · u/ThrowawayT890123 · ↑88 · 2024-12-30
"it's Alex's War by alex lee moyer, tomorrow (friday) at the royal at 7pm, doors at 7:30. I know a few people who are going and we're getting drinks afterwards. all you toronto RS people should come."
"i live in a Toronto and i live very close to gentrified parts of the city, you know when you see it, vintage store, soon to be bankrupt shit restaurants, and weed shops everywhere. But I was hanging out at one of these restaurants and in there while waiting for my overpriced hamburger meal (21 fucki"
am i an old head for absolutely fucking hating modern day hipsters? · u/Moving_in_stereo78 · ↑75 · 2024-03-22
"Torontonians also aren't Canadian and are arguably not even people."
Infinite seething about Canada is hilarious · u/NazgulSandwich · ↑75 · 2025-02-15
"In the last ten years, my grandparents and one aunt have died, one of my aunts and one of my cousins have moved to Vancouver, three cousins have moved to Toronto, one of my closest friends has moved to New York, one to Montreal, one to the Netherlands"
Please start taking the hometown pill so I don't feel so alone · u/Illustrious_Train186 · ↑74 · 2024-09-07
"I know it's weird, but will this be sustainable, at least for a few months until we find a place? I live in a city with one of the worst costs of living in the world (Toronto) right now, hence why I'm back with my parents."
Renting a hotel room so I can fuck my girlfriend · u/LibraryNo2717 · ↑71 · 2023-08-14
"Always see this on the toronto subway and it makes me giggle which makes people look at me weird lol… I'm not even that autistic I'm just a Red Scare listener"
"The weather here is shit but I can survive it without it effecting my mood. But the depressing nature of how many insane people I have to put up with every day does get to me. I think about it I was an immigrant from like Switzerland and how much I'd want to go back home living through this shit."
Toronto is an insane asylum · u/sciouriondeileneroa · ↑59 · 2023-09-13
"sorry i'm bitter but toronto has effectively been in lockdown since november (with like 2 weeks when patios were open) and our REWARD for being so VIRTUOUS and CAREFUL and CANADIAN is that we're in the middle of a third wave and the vaccine rollout is excruciatingly slow while the IRRESPONSIBLE and "
fuck you america · u/[deleted] · ↑47 · 2021-04-12
"My family didnt come to Toronto to never see Canadian people. I hope this shit changes."
There are no white guys at my work and it sucks · u/DouglasFurWaving · ↑42 · 2025-06-17
"I have a decent income, nice place and good grasp on the issues. I even live in a trendy city (Toronto) but struggle so hard to meet cute girls under 200 pounds. Maybe these white girls just don't want an Indian guy? Trying not to be blackpilled but these whores have really ruined everything PSYCH I"
Dating problems · u/GlassMoonCracks · ↑41 · 2023-12-19
"Signed up for an "accessibility-focussed" clinic in Toronto that prioritizes people with "disabilities." Having a "mental disorder" such as depression or anxiety qualifies, but I kinda resent having to click a box that says "I have a disability.""
Had to claim I was disabled to get the vaccine · u/not_rando · ↑39 · 2021-05-10
"All that fake Caribbean moody crooning broke the genre shits looking bad"
The city of Toronto ruined RnB for a generation · u/closerthanyouth1nk · ↑37 · 2022-06-28
"When we landed in Toronto, there was no rush for medical personnel to go to the back to retrieve her, nor did she ever emerge from the back."
Did someone die on my flight from Paris?? · u/slavabien · ↑37 · 2023-07-05
"I'm in Toronto so I still see plebs in medical grade masks almost every day"
What do you think when you see somebody like this in public? · u/samartia_erasmud · ↑37 · 2025-08-12
"What about living in NYC/LA/TOR/Paris has made it worth it?"
"Before I began working in security there was a 1.5-year period where I sold ladies' fascinator hats in Toronto. I thought that was fine."
Name absurd jobs for me to look for · u/Some-Bobcat-8327 · ↑35 · 2021-07-21
"i'm currently living near toronto and it's absolutely fucking nuts to me that anyone who doesn't have a decent paying job (which is 99% of the artists and musicians i know) continues to live here. i just couldn't imagine needing to work like 50 hours a week at some shitty, tiring barista, retail or "
where do artists live? · u/locust-laced · ↑35 · 2022-08-04
"If you're a woman and you don't drive, don't bother coming to Toronto for as long as everybody's working from home, and for as long as TTC hasn't replaced the 350+ employees who were fired/quit due to the vaccine policy. You won't have train buddies you see regularly, because, again, everybody's wor"
"Toronto woman who took dangerous dog to playground where it mauled child facing prison - Toronto | Globalnews.ca"
Most Rational Pibble Mommie · u/NoSundae6904 · ↑31 · 2025-11-04
"The people are arguably even colder than Seattle, it's less affordable than Toronto but about 100x less fun than Toronto."
I can't stand the modern Vancouver · u/contra701 · ↑30 · 2025-01-29
"So I had two wonderful dates with this lady; went to some park in Toronto, listened to Radiohead etc etc,, vibes were great etc..."
Zoomed ghosted me for liking Nabokov · u/ru-fus-tee-fire-fly · ↑29 · 2025-06-27
"New York sucks, LA sucks, I don't wanna move back to Portland after college (ok maybe I do), fuck Seattle, Boston's weird, Vancouver's expensive, the Bay is lame, Toronto's lame"
Wait where are you supposed to live · u/SpikyLlama · ↑28 · 2025-08-11
"China built the 4th largest subway system in the world from scratch while Toronto added a few miles of extentions. They opened line one in late 2010 and have completed 15 other lines since."
"Eventually we land, and we had to part ways because I was headed to Toronto and her New York."
"My family didnt come to Toronto to never see Canadian people."
There are no white guys at my work and it sucks · u/DouglasFurWaving · ↑42 · 2025-06-17
"Signed up for an "accessibility-focussed" clinic in Toronto that prioritizes people with "disabilities.""
Had to claim I was disabled to get the vaccine · u/not_rando · ↑39 · 2021-05-10
"The city of Toronto ruined RnB for a generation"
The city of Toronto ruined RnB for a generation · u/closerthanyouth1nk · ↑37 · 2022-06-28
"Before I began working in security there was a 1.5-year period where I sold ladies' fascinator hats in Toronto."
Name absurd jobs for me to look for · u/Some-Bobcat-8327 · ↑35 · 2021-07-21

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