Friday, August 04, 2006
| Things we will miss / not miss about Toronto | |
| I'm preparing a list of things I'll miss about Toronto - kind of as a benchmark. Down the road I'll reconsider this list as we're deciding whether we want to stay in New Zealand or return to Toronto. | |
| Things (I think) I'll miss: | |
| Concerts - Toronto gets more than its fair share of excellent musicians passing through town. Keb' Mo' probably won't pass through Auckland. | |
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| Neighbourhood Shopping My favourite thing about Toronto is the distinct neighbourhoods: Little Portugal, Greektown, Little India, Korea-town, yum yum yum. I love shopping in Kensington market on my lunch break even if it's sometimes stinky (see things I won't miss below) | |
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| Kick-Ass Friends: Of course this should come first but it's kind of obvious. Gonna miss the local goofballs. | |
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| Autumn is my favourite season. It's nicer just outside of Toronto than in the city but it's still spectacular. I like it when the temperature drops a bit and the leaves pile up. | |
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| Suburban Chinese restaurants - we've observed that the suburban Chinese restaurants around Toronto achieve the near impossible Engineer's triumvirate of Good - Cheap - Fast. Especially the Royal around Kennedy and Shepphard: 8 seafood courses for 7 people in under an hour for $75. Woah. The Magic Wok also defies the engineer's triangle. | |
| More to come... | |
| Things I won't miss | |
| The stench of pharmaceutically-challenged urine samples on hot days around the entrance to my office | |
| My pollution-bred hacking summer cough | |
| Freezing winds at the streetcar stop and waiting .... waiting... waiting as five full streetcars charge by without stopping | |
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# posted by Margaret @ 2:23 PM 
