Downtown living in Toronto reminds me a bit of Winnipeg life minus the crazy

January 18, 2010 by vongsundara · 2 Comments 

I’m living in downtown Toronto now, my first time living downtown in any city ever. It’s quite the experience, I must admit.

The best part of living downtown is that I feel so close to everything. I can walk down to the Eaton Centre and go shopping, and there’s no shortage of great places to eat. I’m even starting to feel the health benefits, as it’s much easier to walk to where I need to go than to take transit or a cab.

There are definitely some interesting characters down here, though. It’s a bit different than the crazy people from Winnipeg. I think in Winnipeg you can only be so crazy, because there’s always the risk of getting shot or stabbed if you anger the wrong person. Here it’s like people are crazier because they don’t worry about the immediate consequences enough. People have just shouted absolute craziness at me which doesn’t happen a lot in Winnipeg (since in Winnipeg they wouldn’t know if I’m crazy enough to be carrying a weapon). Strangely, that extra layer of fear helps people to be nicer to each other.

The place I’m living in is quite nice; I definitely lucked out. The rent is insanely low for this area, and I’ve already painted the walls and am well on my way to fully decorating the place. Next up on the list is a new rug for the living room.

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