The car culture of North America is so ingrained, when I was in Europe I loved the access to transit but I missed my car haha! I loved the slower pace of living in Europe, I wish I could’ve brought it back.
While I agree with some of your points, it's important to recognize that where you’re staying in Toronto is likely comparable to the greater Paris area. One of the primary concerns for those living in the suburbs is traffic. For me, visiting my sister in another part of greater Paris takes about 65 minutes on a crowded metro, switching lines multiple times (Line 12, 4, and then 3). Add to that the stress of dealing with pickpockets, and I'm completely drained by the end of the journey. Taking an Uber isn't much better- the périphérique is usually congested, adding at least 45 minutes to the trip (compared to just 20 minutes without traffic). That being said, Line 14 is excellent, and the newly expanded bike lanes in Paris are fantastic. In Toronto, the islands are wonderful, especially on weekdays when it's quieter. When it comes to traveling between Toronto and Montreal, most people fly- it’s just a 55-minute flight from Toronto Island Airport. What I miss most is the sense of space- Toronto offers more room and greenery. The parks in Paris close early, often by 6 p.m., and the small, cramped apartments with inconsistent hot water are a common challenge here. While Paris does have wonderful swimming pools, they are often overcrowded. Regarding Toronto, most of the people I know prefer living in what is considered old Toronto, typically south of Lawrence Avenue. As for your thoughts on food and culture, I completely agree. Healthcare is also notably better in Paris- Doctolib is truly an exceptional service.
Most people in Toronto would not be driving around. Most Toronto residents actually don't own a car. And you would not want to. That's an absolute no in Toronto. The subway is great. I live in Ottawa and have many friends in Toronto. The only people who drive are those who live outside of Toronto proper and commute into downtown Toronto from different parts of the Greater Toronto Area. Cost of living is also pushing people out of Toronto and people have to drive if they live in the suburbs.
Thank you for this video. i grew up in Ontario, and what you said about it is true, and I've had this deep desire to move to france for a simpler life with culture and art and history and your video is comfirming this for me..❤❤❤❤❤
You should visit Los Angeles. Like Toronto, it will be a bit of a culture shock. We're HUGE, and very spread out. LA is actually made up of not just the CITY of Los Angeles, but multiple other cities and other, "unincorporated" areas. For instance, Beverly Hills (where I actually was born and grew up) is 5 square miles entirely surrounded by Los Angeles, at least until West Hollywood - another actual city - incorporated and is next to Beverly Hills on one side (Los Angeles surrounds them both). Santa Monica is a separate city, with their own government, police, fire, trash, and other departments. Even the sales tax rates are different between different cities (which I know is confusing to a European where there's a single VAT and it is included in the posted price). The only way you'd know you were in Santa Monica versus the City of Los Angeles is that SOME street names change, and some address numbers change. Literally one side of the street is LA and the other is Santa Monica. Same with Beverly Hills, though the street pavement is often better kept in Beverly Hills. The actual CITY of Los Angeles has around 3.9 million residents and is around 469 square miles (1,210 square kilometers). But depending on how you break it up, what's generally considered as the LA area has more like around 10 million residents, and the "LA-Long Beach-Anaheim Metropolitan Statistical Area" is 4,850 square miles (12,561 square kilometers). Note that Long Beach is in LA County while Anaheim is actually in Orange County, just south of LA County. LA County itself is around 4,750 square miles. So... yeah, we're spread out. Whereas much of the world is built with a central, "downtown" area where most people work, surrounded by the suburbs around it where most people live, LA is very different. Yes, we have a downtown, and yes, there are VERY tall skyscrapers there (my wife's firm actually has an office in what USED to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, a little over 1,000 feet tall (310 meters), and 73 floors). But only a small fraction of the population actually works there. There are other large office building centers, like Century City, found just west of Beverly Hills, and stores, restaurants, office buildings from 1 to 10 to 20 floors, homes, apartment buildings, etc. are found spread out, up and down every major street. Major streets are typically 3 or 4 or 5 blocks apart, and MOST of LA is laid out in mostly grid patterns. We have busses, and we have a fledgling train network. But the trains primarily radiate out from downtown, and they're not that close to each other, so you may find yourself at least a couple of miles from the nearest train station. None intersect each other except where they come together near downtown. On the Westside, where I live, the lines (one of which is being extended) are strictly east-west, so there's no way to get from one line that might be closest to you to another without going ALL the way EAST to Downtown, then switching, and then heading all the way back. The busses are far more prevalent, covering virtually every major street, but they're generally used by poorer people, and for the most part, those in the middle and upper class tend to avoid them as they're not really clean, not as safe, and often very crowded. So yes, most here drive, or take Ubers, or similar. There's just over 1 vehicle for every two people, and that includes children (about 20% of the population is under 18). And it almost seems to be the law that those who live "over the hill" in the San Fernando Valley work in the LA Basin, and those who live in the LA Basin work in the Valley. But still, traffic here is not as bad as many might think. I've been MANY places (including Paris) where traffic is bumper-to-bumper (as we call it) and it is just gridlock, at a complete standstill. Here, the traffic tends to move, even when bumper-to-bumper. But our "rush hour" is far longer, where you're likely to hit bad traffic after perhaps 2 PM (14:00) until easily 7 or 8 PM at night (19:00 and 20:00), and you really won't see the freeways (we call them "freeways" instead of "highways") really empty until perhaps 2 or 3 in the morning. One thing that many tourists - particularly Europeans - get completely wrong is the distance (and especially, time) between what would be considered popular attractions. "Hollywood" is not a city but merely a neighborhood, and not with very strictly defined borders, either (like "SoHo" in NYC is "South of Houston" so very distinctly defined). There IS an actual city known as "West Hollywood" and "North Hollywood" is a neighborhood, not a city, "over the hill" in the Valley. The "attractions" in Hollywood consist of things like the "Hollywood Walk of Fame" which is merely a very long section of sidewalks with stars embedded in the concrete, bearing the names of various celebrities. There's the Chinese Theater, with the hand and footprints of celebrities in the concrete. The Dolby Theater. The Pantages Theater. The Hollywood Sign (which is on a mountain above Hollywood, and which you can't actually get to except ONE hiking trail which takes you above and behind it). The Capitol Records Building. And so on. Right now - Sunday afternoon around 2 PM (14:00) - to get from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood to the Santa Monica Pier, it is about a 15 mile (24 km) drive, taking about 40 minutes. And that's not including getting out from a parking lot (unless you HAPPENED to find a spot at a meter in the street) or getting INTO a parking lot and parking, and then walking to and from your car. But we DO have a lot. The weather is generally good. Yes, it rains here, and yes, it can be overcast. Particularly for a few months in spring and early summer, we tend to get what's known as "June Gloom" where it is overcast in the morning and the evening and then sunny in the afternoon. That's even more pronounced as you get closer to the ocean towards the west. But it rarely gets that hot, rarely gets that cold (it snows in various parts of town about once every 20 years or so), and it is almost never humid like much of the east coast of the US. So if it is 80-90 degrees here (27-32 degrees C), you're NOT going to feel all sweaty. We have tons of museums. One of my favorites is up the hill from me - the Getty Center, which is an art museum on top of a mountain with great views of the city below, usually great art exhibits (some are permanent, others change), and the architecture of the complex is just stunningly beautiful (you can Google it to get an idea what I'm talking about). No, nothing like the Louvre, but we DO have some great stuff here. There is, of course, the ocean, and miles of beaches, and the very touristy Santa Monica Pier. And walking and bike riding up and down the paths along the beach, down into Venice Beach. There's Disneyland, of course, though that's actually in Orange County a ways south of here. There's Universal Studios - the original one - which is a theme park, of course, but is actually still a working movie and TV studio. We have TV studios where you can get tickets to see various shows that happen to be filmed there. Lot of movies and TV shows have been filmed here, and there are a LOT of sites you may recognize, like Rodeo Drive, and the hotel where several scenes of "Beverly Hills Cop" (the "banana in the tailpipe" scene, for instance), "Pretty Woman" and many, many others.have been filmed. Perhaps the strangest thing is that so many people - even people who have lived here for most or all of their lives - tend to think of it as a concrete jungle. I think most people get the same idea about Paris, despite the fact that Paris has some wonderful parks (I personally have a weak spot for the Tuileries). But for those paying attention as you fly into LA, it is actually VERY green. I, for instance, live on a busy (but only 2 lane) street with rows and rows of 2, 3, and 4 story apartments and condos, but right behind on both sides are rows of undeveloped land with trees. I live in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, which cuts mostly east/west across LA, separating the LA Basin from the San Fernando Valley. They're about 40 miles long in total, a few miles across (wide), and the highest point is a little over 3,100 feet (948 meters) - which isn't super tall, but certainly makes it actual MOUNTAINS and not just some hills. There are homes along every road crossing, including Sunset Blvd. (yes, the street the old movie was named after) and Mulholland Drive, both of which follow the range, and the multiple streets going partway up along the ridges and those (like Coldwater Canyon, Benedict Canyon, Laurel Canyon, Beverly Glen, etc.). But overall, it is green. And/or brown, depending on how dry it has been. Not big forests with tall trees; we have mostly what's known as chaparral. Most of those canyons have hiking trails, and within a maybe 10 or 15 minute drive, we can park and go on a hike for anywhere from a mile or so up to several miles, and ranging from super easy, wide trails, to more difficult trails. You might be only a short distance from "civilization" but you'd often not even know it; you're truly "away from it all." Within a couple of hours driving, you're in the REAL mountains. Few years ago, my wife and I hiked Mount Baldy (technically known as Mount San Antonio) which is just over 10,000 feet in elevation (about 3,067 meters). It does get cold in the winter in the mountains, so you can drive a couple of hours and go skiing in the morning and then go back to the beach and go surfing in the afternoon (or vice-versa).
Love this video! Personally I love paris more than Toronto because I'm love walking in the city. It is impossible to go from block to block in Toronto 😅
I love France! A few things though - Canada is 2/3 the size of France’s population, but 18 times larger than France (and France is about 50% of Ontario alone). Transportation infrastructure will naturally be less in less populated areas since the population and industry would not be able to support it. We also have a lot of wilderness; the population is more concentrated in the Greater Toronto Area. The high commuter corridors have express trains. Downtown, the diversity of restaurants is more pronounced so you don’t really need to go to a specific neighbourhood, but certain neighbourhoods are definitely known for one thing or another (I.e. Little Portugal, Little Italy, Little Manila, etc.). Many people in Toronto don’t have cars and simply Uber as well. North York is a very specific type of neighbourhood and development however - there’s an interesting video on how it was built up and why it’s less public transit friendly.
one thing that toronto has is buses. you might be used to taking the subway or train everywhere but toronto has frequent buses and streetcars (downtown) to take you to every street
Your view and experience of Toronto will be influenced by where you stay in this big city. North York is not a good place to stay for tourists. If you stay in Toronto downtown core and walk around you will have a completely different experience. But overall, no city can compare to the beauty of Paris. 😊
North York is a historical suburb of Toronto, not considered the city of Toronto. In 2001 there was an amalgamation of the former Metro Toronto into a new supercity of Toronto. North York is NOT the historical city of Toronto. It's like communities on the other side of the BLVD Peripherique in relation to Paris.
In North America, the majority of urban population live in single houses; while in Europe the majority live in apartments, no wonder public transportation is more developed in Europe than in North America.
The take out culture really took offwith the pandemic The heavy thing is the winter and hard working paysan tradition The French Paradox DOES NOT come from different quality of the health care system And all to do With the life styles America is brutally unhealthy
Toronto is a bikeable/walkable city but more if you live downtown core. You can get also get around by transit but it's a work in progress. The distinct neighbourhoods are kind of like NYC.
Transportation wise Canada seems like a village. Its really shocking if you go outside into small towns you will often hear that trains do not run regularly and you can not even trust their schedule. Its really bad.
You are comparing North York to Paris , that's not a fair comparison .Should be compared to downtown Toronto. Beautiful city Paris, recently visited. Runs rings around Toronto.
Um, not really. Were there Chinese immigrants after Canada became a country in 1867. Yes, absolutely. But Canada was founded by the French and English - and primarily the English as France lost Quebec after the 7 years war. It was the British who integrated Quebec into Canada.
@@paulirish7955 My family on one side is of Irish ancestry - they came to Canada during the potato famine of the 1840's. However, the GERMAN side of my family is even older. THey are the original United Empire Loyalists. THey immigrated from Germany to the USA from the Rhineland Palatinate back in the 1700's thanks to British sponsorship (it's a fascinating story - google it). When the US started its revolt against Britain, they remained loyal to the English because of the aforementioned British sponsorship, so they crossed the border into Canada which was still a British colony and signed up with the British militia and fought against the Americans. After that, they were given free land for their service and were Canadian before it was even a country. So lots of Germans ALSO were founding members of Canada. Much more so than the Chinese, who didn't show up until the 1880's railway construction when Canada was already a country.
lol!! Toronto is a hub for an area that holds about 10 million people ... tons of attractions, places to visit and things to do ... but you critique it sitting in a coffee shop in Willowdale (I grew up there and although I loved my experience I sure wouldn't recommend North York as a tourist spot.) And to try to compare the culture of Toronto to Paris .... I mean, give me a break - how unfair. This review is quite odd ... actually more misinformation than information.
The car culture of North America is so ingrained, when I was in Europe I loved the access to transit but I missed my car haha! I loved the slower pace of living in Europe, I wish I could’ve brought it back.
While I agree with some of your points, it's important to recognize that where you’re staying in Toronto is likely comparable to the greater Paris area. One of the primary concerns for those living in the suburbs is traffic.
For me, visiting my sister in another part of greater Paris takes about 65 minutes on a crowded metro, switching lines multiple times (Line 12, 4, and then 3). Add to that the stress of dealing with pickpockets, and I'm completely drained by the end of the journey. Taking an Uber isn't much better- the périphérique is usually congested, adding at least 45 minutes to the trip (compared to just 20 minutes without traffic).
That being said, Line 14 is excellent, and the newly expanded bike lanes in Paris are fantastic. In Toronto, the islands are wonderful, especially on weekdays when it's quieter.
When it comes to traveling between Toronto and Montreal, most people fly- it’s just a 55-minute flight from Toronto Island Airport.
What I miss most is the sense of space- Toronto offers more room and greenery. The parks in Paris close early, often by 6 p.m., and the small, cramped apartments with inconsistent hot water are a common challenge here. While Paris does have wonderful swimming pools, they are often overcrowded.
Regarding Toronto, most of the people I know prefer living in what is considered old Toronto, typically south of Lawrence Avenue.
As for your thoughts on food and culture, I completely agree. Healthcare is also notably better in Paris- Doctolib is truly an exceptional service.
JUSSST like the 50 below you. Same hustle culture on steroids. Headed your way to just take it in. Thanks Gabrielle💝💝💝Merci!
Most people in Toronto would not be driving around. Most Toronto residents actually don't own a car. And you would not want to. That's an absolute no in Toronto. The subway is great. I live in Ottawa and have many friends in Toronto. The only people who drive are those who live outside of Toronto proper and commute into downtown Toronto from different parts of the Greater Toronto Area. Cost of living is also pushing people out of Toronto and people have to drive if they live in the suburbs.
Maybe make a video on how French spoken in Quebec is different than French spoken in France.
Thank you for this video. i grew up in Ontario, and what you said about it is true, and I've had this deep desire to move to france for a simpler life with culture and art and history and your video is comfirming this for me..❤❤❤❤❤
Me too
You should visit Los Angeles.
Like Toronto, it will be a bit of a culture shock. We're HUGE, and very spread out.
LA is actually made up of not just the CITY of Los Angeles, but multiple other cities and other, "unincorporated" areas. For instance, Beverly Hills (where I actually was born and grew up) is 5 square miles entirely surrounded by Los Angeles, at least until West Hollywood - another actual city - incorporated and is next to Beverly Hills on one side (Los Angeles surrounds them both). Santa Monica is a separate city, with their own government, police, fire, trash, and other departments. Even the sales tax rates are different between different cities (which I know is confusing to a European where there's a single VAT and it is included in the posted price). The only way you'd know you were in Santa Monica versus the City of Los Angeles is that SOME street names change, and some address numbers change. Literally one side of the street is LA and the other is Santa Monica. Same with Beverly Hills, though the street pavement is often better kept in Beverly Hills.
The actual CITY of Los Angeles has around 3.9 million residents and is around 469 square miles (1,210 square kilometers). But depending on how you break it up, what's generally considered as the LA area has more like around 10 million residents, and the "LA-Long Beach-Anaheim Metropolitan Statistical Area" is 4,850 square miles (12,561 square kilometers). Note that Long Beach is in LA County while Anaheim is actually in Orange County, just south of LA County. LA County itself is around 4,750 square miles.
So... yeah, we're spread out.
Whereas much of the world is built with a central, "downtown" area where most people work, surrounded by the suburbs around it where most people live, LA is very different. Yes, we have a downtown, and yes, there are VERY tall skyscrapers there (my wife's firm actually has an office in what USED to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, a little over 1,000 feet tall (310 meters), and 73 floors). But only a small fraction of the population actually works there. There are other large office building centers, like Century City, found just west of Beverly Hills, and stores, restaurants, office buildings from 1 to 10 to 20 floors, homes, apartment buildings, etc. are found spread out, up and down every major street. Major streets are typically 3 or 4 or 5 blocks apart, and MOST of LA is laid out in mostly grid patterns.
We have busses, and we have a fledgling train network. But the trains primarily radiate out from downtown, and they're not that close to each other, so you may find yourself at least a couple of miles from the nearest train station. None intersect each other except where they come together near downtown. On the Westside, where I live, the lines (one of which is being extended) are strictly east-west, so there's no way to get from one line that might be closest to you to another without going ALL the way EAST to Downtown, then switching, and then heading all the way back.
The busses are far more prevalent, covering virtually every major street, but they're generally used by poorer people, and for the most part, those in the middle and upper class tend to avoid them as they're not really clean, not as safe, and often very crowded.
So yes, most here drive, or take Ubers, or similar. There's just over 1 vehicle for every two people, and that includes children (about 20% of the population is under 18). And it almost seems to be the law that those who live "over the hill" in the San Fernando Valley work in the LA Basin, and those who live in the LA Basin work in the Valley.
But still, traffic here is not as bad as many might think. I've been MANY places (including Paris) where traffic is bumper-to-bumper (as we call it) and it is just gridlock, at a complete standstill. Here, the traffic tends to move, even when bumper-to-bumper. But our "rush hour" is far longer, where you're likely to hit bad traffic after perhaps 2 PM (14:00) until easily 7 or 8 PM at night (19:00 and 20:00), and you really won't see the freeways (we call them "freeways" instead of "highways") really empty until perhaps 2 or 3 in the morning.
One thing that many tourists - particularly Europeans - get completely wrong is the distance (and especially, time) between what would be considered popular attractions. "Hollywood" is not a city but merely a neighborhood, and not with very strictly defined borders, either (like "SoHo" in NYC is "South of Houston" so very distinctly defined). There IS an actual city known as "West Hollywood" and "North Hollywood" is a neighborhood, not a city, "over the hill" in the Valley. The "attractions" in Hollywood consist of things like the "Hollywood Walk of Fame" which is merely a very long section of sidewalks with stars embedded in the concrete, bearing the names of various celebrities. There's the Chinese Theater, with the hand and footprints of celebrities in the concrete. The Dolby Theater. The Pantages Theater. The Hollywood Sign (which is on a mountain above Hollywood, and which you can't actually get to except ONE hiking trail which takes you above and behind it). The Capitol Records Building. And so on.
Right now - Sunday afternoon around 2 PM (14:00) - to get from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood to the Santa Monica Pier, it is about a 15 mile (24 km) drive, taking about 40 minutes. And that's not including getting out from a parking lot (unless you HAPPENED to find a spot at a meter in the street) or getting INTO a parking lot and parking, and then walking to and from your car.
But we DO have a lot. The weather is generally good. Yes, it rains here, and yes, it can be overcast. Particularly for a few months in spring and early summer, we tend to get what's known as "June Gloom" where it is overcast in the morning and the evening and then sunny in the afternoon. That's even more pronounced as you get closer to the ocean towards the west. But it rarely gets that hot, rarely gets that cold (it snows in various parts of town about once every 20 years or so), and it is almost never humid like much of the east coast of the US. So if it is 80-90 degrees here (27-32 degrees C), you're NOT going to feel all sweaty.
We have tons of museums. One of my favorites is up the hill from me - the Getty Center, which is an art museum on top of a mountain with great views of the city below, usually great art exhibits (some are permanent, others change), and the architecture of the complex is just stunningly beautiful (you can Google it to get an idea what I'm talking about). No, nothing like the Louvre, but we DO have some great stuff here.
There is, of course, the ocean, and miles of beaches, and the very touristy Santa Monica Pier. And walking and bike riding up and down the paths along the beach, down into Venice Beach.
There's Disneyland, of course, though that's actually in Orange County a ways south of here. There's Universal Studios - the original one - which is a theme park, of course, but is actually still a working movie and TV studio. We have TV studios where you can get tickets to see various shows that happen to be filmed there.
Lot of movies and TV shows have been filmed here, and there are a LOT of sites you may recognize, like Rodeo Drive, and the hotel where several scenes of "Beverly Hills Cop" (the "banana in the tailpipe" scene, for instance), "Pretty Woman" and many, many others.have been filmed.
Perhaps the strangest thing is that so many people - even people who have lived here for most or all of their lives - tend to think of it as a concrete jungle. I think most people get the same idea about Paris, despite the fact that Paris has some wonderful parks (I personally have a weak spot for the Tuileries). But for those paying attention as you fly into LA, it is actually VERY green. I, for instance, live on a busy (but only 2 lane) street with rows and rows of 2, 3, and 4 story apartments and condos, but right behind on both sides are rows of undeveloped land with trees. I live in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, which cuts mostly east/west across LA, separating the LA Basin from the San Fernando Valley. They're about 40 miles long in total, a few miles across (wide), and the highest point is a little over 3,100 feet (948 meters) - which isn't super tall, but certainly makes it actual MOUNTAINS and not just some hills. There are homes along every road crossing, including Sunset Blvd. (yes, the street the old movie was named after) and Mulholland Drive, both of which follow the range, and the multiple streets going partway up along the ridges and those (like Coldwater Canyon, Benedict Canyon, Laurel Canyon, Beverly Glen, etc.). But overall, it is green. And/or brown, depending on how dry it has been. Not big forests with tall trees; we have mostly what's known as chaparral.
Most of those canyons have hiking trails, and within a maybe 10 or 15 minute drive, we can park and go on a hike for anywhere from a mile or so up to several miles, and ranging from super easy, wide trails, to more difficult trails. You might be only a short distance from "civilization" but you'd often not even know it; you're truly "away from it all."
Within a couple of hours driving, you're in the REAL mountains. Few years ago, my wife and I hiked Mount Baldy (technically known as Mount San Antonio) which is just over 10,000 feet in elevation (about 3,067 meters). It does get cold in the winter in the mountains, so you can drive a couple of hours and go skiing in the morning and then go back to the beach and go surfing in the afternoon (or vice-versa).
Love this video! Personally I love paris more than Toronto because I'm love walking in the city. It is impossible to go from block to block in Toronto 😅
I agree! The concept of a "block" in these two cities are totally different imo!
I love France!
A few things though - Canada is 2/3 the size of France’s population, but 18 times larger than France (and France is about 50% of Ontario alone). Transportation infrastructure will naturally be less in less populated areas since the population and industry would not be able to support it. We also have a lot of wilderness; the population is more concentrated in the Greater Toronto Area. The high commuter corridors have express trains. Downtown, the diversity of restaurants is more pronounced so you don’t really need to go to a specific neighbourhood, but certain neighbourhoods are definitely known for one thing or another (I.e. Little Portugal, Little Italy, Little Manila, etc.). Many people in Toronto don’t have cars and simply Uber as well. North York is a very specific type of neighbourhood and development however - there’s an interesting video on how it was built up and why it’s less public transit friendly.
Bonjour! Gabrielle! I also went from Toronto to Niagara Falls.
it was so magnificent!
one thing that toronto has is buses. you might be used to taking the subway or train everywhere but toronto has frequent buses and streetcars (downtown) to take you to every street
Your view and experience of Toronto will be influenced by where you stay in this big city. North York is not a good place to stay for tourists. If you stay in Toronto downtown core and walk around you will have a completely different experience. But overall, no city can compare to the beauty of Paris. 😊
North York is a historical suburb of Toronto, not considered the city of Toronto. In 2001 there was an amalgamation of the former Metro Toronto into a new supercity of Toronto. North York is NOT the historical city of Toronto. It's like communities on the other side of the BLVD Peripherique in relation to Paris.
In North America, the majority of urban population live in single houses; while in Europe the majority live in apartments, no wonder public transportation is more developed in Europe than in North America.
The take out culture really took offwith the pandemic
The heavy thing is the winter and hard working paysan tradition
The French Paradox DOES NOT come from different quality of the health care system
And all to do
With the life styles
America is brutally unhealthy
Traditionnellement, on appelle le 13ème arrondissement de Paris le Quartier Chinois.
Toronto is a bikeable/walkable city but more if you live downtown core. You can get also get around by transit but it's a work in progress. The distinct neighbourhoods are kind of like NYC.
Thank you for the video :) I also like Paris more as it is more peaceful in my opinion
Transportation wise Canada seems like a village. Its really shocking if you go outside into small towns you will often hear that trains do not run regularly and you can not even trust their schedule. Its really bad.
Never foget that France can enter 5 times in Quebec province. Donc les grandes distances rendent l'automobile nécessaire à moins de demeurer en ville.
You are comparing North York to Paris , that's not a fair comparison .Should be compared to downtown Toronto. Beautiful city Paris, recently visited. Runs rings around Toronto.
Obviously, Toronto and Paris aren't in the same league. Compare Paris to London, NYC, Tokyo or Bangkok.
Yeah sorry Canada sucks the cities are ugly and too far apart. I'm leaving this place ASAP pour habiter à Paris 😍
I like how you say Montréal instead of Maan-tri-all
Canada is Chinada - China Canada. Chinese is one of the four founding nations of Canada. The others are British, French, and the First Nation.
Um, not really. Were there Chinese immigrants after Canada became a country in 1867. Yes, absolutely. But Canada was founded by the French and English - and primarily the English as France lost Quebec after the 7 years war. It was the British who integrated Quebec into Canada.
Chinada-kp6xs. You forgot the Irish ... and you're wrong about the Chinese.
@@paulirish7955 My family on one side is of Irish ancestry - they came to Canada during the potato famine of the 1840's. However, the GERMAN side of my family is even older. THey are the original United Empire Loyalists. THey immigrated from Germany to the USA from the Rhineland Palatinate back in the 1700's thanks to British sponsorship (it's a fascinating story - google it). When the US started its revolt against Britain, they remained loyal to the English because of the aforementioned British sponsorship, so they crossed the border into Canada which was still a British colony and signed up with the British militia and fought against the Americans. After that, they were given free land for their service and were Canadian before it was even a country. So lots of Germans ALSO were founding members of Canada. Much more so than the Chinese, who didn't show up until the 1880's railway construction when Canada was already a country.
lol!! Toronto is a hub for an area that holds about 10 million people ... tons of attractions, places to visit and things to do ... but you critique it sitting in a coffee shop in Willowdale (I grew up there and although I loved my experience I sure wouldn't recommend North York as a tourist spot.) And to try to compare the culture of Toronto to Paris .... I mean, give me a break - how unfair. This review is quite odd ... actually more misinformation than information.