Quote: (08-30-2011 10:32 PM)Mace Wrote:
Funny thing is if you mention any of these sentiments on any mainstream Toronto website, you'd get slammed big time by the locals. There's a lot of people in this city who regard Toronto as "the centre of the universe". Not kidding. Always from people who've never been anywhere. And it's because most of Toronto's population is comprised of FOB immigrants from Third World dumps and transplants from bumfuck hick towns.
A big problem is Canadians aren't particularly cultured or well-travelled. A Canadian's idea of a vacation is a weekend at the cottage by the lake, or if they're adventurous a week in an all-inclusive resort in Cuba. Contrast this to Aussies for whom an overseas vacation is an annual ritual. There's a certain insular Toronto-centrism that's unbecoming of a truly international, cosmopolitan city.
Someone mentioned demographics and it has a lot to do with the poor social vibe and general uptight nature of this city. In Toronto the biggest groups are repressed anal-retentive WASPs, stonefaced Asians, and insular Indians & Muslims. Even the Southern Europeans here (Italians, Greeks, Portuguese) seem mellowed out compared to their cousins back home.
Contrast Toronto to another huge, diverse immigrant hub - New York. In NYC there's a healthy mix of extroverted groups - loquacious Jews, in-your-face Italians, outgoing Puerto Ricans/Dominicans, and a huge black population. In spite of similar levels of diversity, the social vibe in NYC vs. Toronto is very different. ie. chatting with strangers on the subway is common in NYC; this is a major social faux pas in Toronto.
Once you've travelled overseas and visited some REAL cities with an active street life, where people are relaxed and the women are warm and friendly, coming back to Toronto can be hella depressing.
Nail. Hammer. Head.
This can be summed up for any major Canadian city. I am proud to be Canadian but it is bothersome how uncultured our nation is. They get so insecure and defensive about their respective towns/cities as well on this matter, but it's true.
Now in smaller towns you will find more laid back women that don't have as big of a beatch shield or whatever. However, I agree
with a lot of the sentiments about
Toronto women from this article. I dated one and she was an absolute nightmare. The most self-entitled woman I ever dated and was the reason I set out to stop dating Canadian women. She brought nothing to the table but wanted her cake and to eat it too.
Sad thing was, this girl in TO wasn't that much different from the slags I dated in Calgary. Now you would think a once proud and smaller community like Calgary would have more easy going women. Umm no. They are so cold you get a chill from them just walking by them on the street. It has gotten progressively worse over the years (thanks to oil money) and when I left I couldn't have been happier.
You would think women in London are more pretentious but I have never once been asked about my job or had any other material discussions
within the first hour of meeting a woman here. Maybe once or twice but not on the same scale as TO or Calgary. This is one of the first questions...FIRST....they will ask. I never answer it and immediately I am done
with them when this is asked. If you don't make loads of money in these cities (or pretend to live this lifestyle of luxury) I have no idea how you attract the majority of women there.
The previous bf of the girl from TO showered her
with money and gifts and that has played a large part of this phenomenon. Guys
with no game, using material goods to attract women. This is why you should rarely ever seriously date a woman from these cities...unless she's a rare breed. There are some good ones obviously.