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Comment by mhkhung | Hacker News Reader

Toronto is totally different even from 10 years ago. Spadina/Queen/King (where all the starts-up are located) is so busy even at nights and weekends because so many people live and work there. The ports area being developed, is totally dead by comparison (that's why the city wants Google to help develop). And suburb Toronto, check out Yonge/Sheppard-Finch today, it is 2-km stretch of pan-Asian restaurants that you cannot find anywhere outside of Asia.

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I'm definitely impressed by how 'busy' it is - but TO is mostly a 'Starbucks, Timmies, Whole Foods and IKEA' kind of town.

It's more brand oriented and suburban than ever before.

Example: Toronto used to have a 'musical sound'. You could hear a band maybe know that it was from TO.

No such thing anymore.

TO is a large group of fairly well behaved and polite people from around the world getting along in the cold. And that's it.

Toronto has made me realize that culture cannot be invented, and that you can't just 'create' cohesion.

Sadly, most things that would have made the are unique - have been wiped out ... the suburbs of Toronto, Singapore, Denver, Amsterdam - are becoming more and more alike the only thing differentiating them is the weather. :)

I think we need a new version of globalization :)

The Yonge/Finch area is pretty disappointing actually. The food quality is fairly low outside of a couple gems (in a sea of garbage). Random places around Markham are much better if Asian is your fancy.

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