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The thing I love most about Toronto is the consistent animation with stores, restaurants and people on almost any downtown street. After New York City, Toronto is probably the most lively city in North America and it gets more so, every year.
timtam53191 Toronto's streets are much livelier than Chicago's! It's not even close. San Francisco is a great city and it does have crowds in certain areas like Union Square but over-all, I think Toronto has larger numbers of people all over the central core and that's a pretty big area. Also Toronto's streets/sidewalks are busy not only 9 to 5 but also at night too. I noticed in Chicago, when the sun goes down, people disappear. In places like Chinatown or the Loop, after 7 pm, everything closes and people go home. Toronto is very different in that regard. I have video of my Chicago vacation where I was walking in the Loop around 630 pm and there is not a single person walking on the whole street. It was very strange.
The Loop is Chicago's financial core so it caters for the 9-5 crowd. Toronto's equivalent is the area around Bay and King. Did you venture across to Michigan Ave? San Francisco has a compact downtown with typically smaller blocks, which means everything has to be packed in a little tighter than in Toronto afaik. Though its inner core is consistently dense stretching well beyond its downtown. Away from the financial core, there's high concentrations of crowds around Powell St and Union Square, and Chinatown. The area around Pier 39 and Fishermans Wharf is packed with people and tourists particularly during the weekends. Either way I regard Toronto to be more or less on a similar tier to SF and Chicago, which is already more of a complement. NYC's the obvious standout in North America.
I really enjoy watching my city on you tube video great city although expensive city but in the summer time it's very nice and vibrant, there 240 plus multicultural city , making Toronto easily the most diverse city in the world.
I drove in Toronto briefly during a 3 day visit there this January and it just so happened to be during rush hour. Coming from a city of only around 50k, let's just say it was the most jarring experience of my life..
toronto is one of the few north american cities filled with people walking down the street in its downtown core. much more lively than america's car dominated ghost towns like houston and phoenix
I don't believe it!!!!!, see the cyclist with the white helmet and black Lycra shorts on the right, during the first minute or so of this clip? THAT'S ME!!! What are the odds of seeing myself cycling on RUclips? Normally, as I live downtown, I leave my car at home and cycle everywhere. It can be a bit dangerous, as you can see from all those taxis (I've been hit twice, both by an idiot cab drivers, both on their phone, which is illegal here, it's against the law to use any hand held device while driving, yet everyone does it anyways), Both of them tried taking off after knocking me off my bike and into the curb, oh yeah, and both lost their licence after hitting me (one had already hit 3 bikes, the other idiot, 4 bikes, how many people do these assholes have to hit before the cops stop them from killing someone?😡). In fact, that nice white helmet I'm wearing was brand new, the old one cracked in half a few weeks prior after my second accident when the cabbie knocked me right off my bike sending me flying 10 feet, landing head first against the curb. If it weren't for that helmet I'd have been killed, but it absorbed most of the impact, and split in half...better it then my skull! You're not allowed to cycle on the sidewalks so you take your life in your hands cycling on the street. I've been doing it for 20 years now, so I suppose only 2 accidents in our nightmarish traffic isn't too bad, but you have to grow eyes in the back of your head to keep from getting hit. I have all the safety gear possible, and at night, have very bright, red flashing LED light possible, on my helmet, both wheels, on the back of my seat, on my back pack, and a super bright LED white headlight....not to mention all the reflective strips and tape on my clothing and bike. But regardless, people still don't see me. Basically, you can't get distracted, or you're dead, but by bike, I can make it to work in 8 minutes flat, by car it's 20-25 minutes, and then good luck finding a place to park.....which would you choose? I only drive if I'm really tired, or if it's snowing, but that aside, cycling is the best way to get around downtown Toronto. You just need to learn how to navigate all the traffic and pedestrians that walk right in front of you without looking, j walking of course, and when I hit them, they blame me! Go figure, guess it's the same in most cities a huge as Toronto. Anyone else cycle downtown too? If so, you know what I'm talking about!
If you watch CP24 (toronto news station) everyday a cyclist and/or pedestrain is hit if not multiple per day. Can be dangerous on both ends. Being a driver and a pedestrain u gotta be careful .. i dont care what torontos laws say i ride the sidewalk whenever i feel the roads not safe for my bicycle fuck anybody who says different. i dont feel i have the right of way any more then you do as a driver
Everyone is acting like Toronto is just as awesome as all the American cities, which it isn't! I can't even relate to anything that's similar to this even in the U.S films.
David Mu Wow. Just wow. IF you actually do live in Toronto.. and that is a big "if" then I think you could do yourself and the rest of the city a big favour by moving back to where you last lived because likely you have forgotten why you moved in the first place.
@David Mu Of course it is not wrong, David, but, your whole thrust has been denying anyone else's choice of city if it happens to be Toronto. You don't like it, clearly, but you seem to have an extremely difficult time understanding that others seem to have adapted to living here considerably better than you have, and are indeed considerably happier. So, if it is not "wrong" for you to pick a city, can't you just accept that it is not "wrong" for other people to have a different opinion of Toronto?
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The thing I love most about Toronto is the consistent animation with stores, restaurants and people on almost any downtown street. After New York City, Toronto is probably the most lively city in North America and it gets more so, every year.
Chicago and SF would beg to differ :P
timtam53191 Toronto's streets are much livelier than Chicago's! It's not even close. San Francisco is a great city and it does have crowds in certain areas like Union Square but over-all, I think Toronto has larger numbers of people all over the central core and that's a pretty big area. Also Toronto's streets/sidewalks are busy not only 9 to 5 but also at night too.
I noticed in Chicago, when the sun goes down, people disappear. In places like Chinatown or the Loop, after 7 pm, everything closes and people go home. Toronto is very different in that regard.
I have video of my Chicago vacation where I was walking in the Loop around 630 pm and there is not a single person walking on the whole street. It was very strange.
The Loop is Chicago's financial core so it caters for the 9-5 crowd. Toronto's equivalent is the area around Bay and King. Did you venture across to Michigan Ave?
San Francisco has a compact downtown with typically smaller blocks, which means everything has to be packed in a little tighter than in Toronto afaik. Though its inner core is consistently dense stretching well beyond its downtown. Away from the financial core, there's high concentrations of crowds around Powell St and Union Square, and Chinatown. The area around Pier 39 and Fishermans Wharf is packed with people and tourists particularly during the weekends.
Either way I regard Toronto to be more or less on a similar tier to SF and Chicago, which is already more of a complement. NYC's the obvious standout in North America.
I think San Francisco is livelier than Toronto, I've been there when I was in grade three.
Chicago is a much bigger city than Toronto.
Beautiful city, I love Toronto
Inayat Kubdani are the women in toronto really as beautiful and nice like they say?
Toronto women are decent but if you want beautiful go to Montreal
leadnsteel yeah i heard!! Are they nice and pretty or just pretty in appearance
just not the traffic. driving downtown is insane
I really enjoy watching my city on you tube video great city although expensive city but in the summer time it's very nice and vibrant, there 240 plus multicultural city , making Toronto easily the most diverse city in the world.
bravo j!!!great!awesome!wonderful gift!!!
Feeling homesick, before I moved abroad my last job was on king street, I remember lunch time I would walk to Young and Dundas almost every day
Wow downtown Toronto looks beautiful
I drove in Toronto briefly during a 3 day visit there this January and it just so happened to be during rush hour.
Coming from a city of only around 50k, let's just say it was the most jarring experience of my life..
Watching this in 4K is fantastic ! I do miss Toronto .... Any chance a video like that for Queen St. ?
Amazing vedeo thnks for u...
Love canada 💖💖💖
Love toronto 💖💖💖
I'm glad you got this video before the King Street Pilot, now you can't drive straight any more between Bathurst St and Jarvis Street!
I´m visiting Toronto in October.
I´m so excited
Can´t wait!!!!
Absolutely great video, just like in person!
Thanks for sharing :)
Toronto is beautiful city.
LOVE TO LIVE OVER HERE IN TORONTO
Toronto is really cool!!
I been to Victoria BC and it looks like Toronto is similar. VERY CLEAN. They seem to take pride in their country.
My School!!! George Brown
lovely place
what lens and camera are you using?
This was where I lived!
And there's chinatown in there!
What camera do you use to make these videos? Great job! Thanks!
Good job you got this video when you did. Now you can't drive further than one block in the downtown area without having to turn right.
Nice job on video. The viewers who have not been to Toronto, check out all the contruction just on King St alone.
I like how you give cyclists plenty of space. Toronto is a beautiful city! Great video :)
Hope you enjoyed the drive. Can't drive on King Street anymore.
Nice place to live.beautiful place
American beach's
toronto and new york is the best cities in north america
Don't sleep on Chicago, fam! Its Downtown is pristine with stately architecture, a lake, and a river.
This video puts downtown LA in shame
I love the view driving down this street! The weather was perfect that day!
Haha.... Skid Row looks like a warzone. California sucks!
Awesome video of my home town!
Also, it may just be the FOV, but you appear to be driving really slowly.
Thanks Ziggmanster! Unique question : )
So nice
I'm gonna see here soon
Can you please do one of Bay Street next? And maybe Bloor Street?
Please tell me what camera did you use?
Ilove some where some place
L.love.that.fine.thanks
toronto is one of the few north american cities filled with people walking down the street in its downtown core. much more lively than america's car dominated ghost towns like houston and phoenix
yes I agreement '
this will be business street after Australia.
I don't believe it!!!!!, see the cyclist with the white helmet and black Lycra shorts on the right, during the first minute or so of this clip? THAT'S ME!!! What are the odds of seeing myself cycling on RUclips? Normally, as I live downtown, I leave my car at home and cycle everywhere. It can be a bit dangerous, as you can see from all those taxis (I've been hit twice, both by an idiot cab drivers, both on their phone, which is illegal here, it's against the law to use any hand held device while driving, yet everyone does it anyways), Both of them tried taking off after knocking me off my bike and into the curb, oh yeah, and both lost their licence after hitting me (one had already hit 3 bikes, the other idiot, 4 bikes, how many people do these assholes have to hit before the cops stop them from killing someone?😡). In fact, that nice white helmet I'm wearing was brand new, the old one cracked in half a few weeks prior after my second accident when the cabbie knocked me right off my bike sending me flying 10 feet, landing head first against the curb. If it weren't for that helmet I'd have been killed, but it absorbed most of the impact, and split in half...better it then my skull! You're not allowed to cycle on the sidewalks so you take your life in your hands cycling on the street. I've been doing it for 20 years now, so I suppose only 2 accidents in our nightmarish traffic isn't too bad, but you have to grow eyes in the back of your head to keep from getting hit. I have all the safety gear possible, and at night, have very bright, red flashing LED light possible, on my helmet, both wheels, on the back of my seat, on my back pack, and a super bright LED white headlight....not to mention all the reflective strips and tape on my clothing and bike. But regardless, people still don't see me. Basically, you can't get distracted, or you're dead, but by bike, I can make it to work in 8 minutes flat, by car it's 20-25 minutes, and then good luck finding a place to park.....which would you choose? I only drive if I'm really tired, or if it's snowing, but that aside, cycling is the best way to get around downtown Toronto. You just need to learn how to navigate all the traffic and pedestrians that walk right in front of you without looking, j walking of course, and when I hit them, they blame me! Go figure, guess it's the same in most cities a huge as Toronto. Anyone else cycle downtown too? If so, you know what I'm talking about!
How do you find King St. after the streetcar pilot? Is there much improvement with a reduction in traffic?
I wish lived there (I mean in Canada).
lots of large building
DT Toronto looks like a mix between Chicago and Philadelphia
Good
Rachel McAdams on the bike
1:35
i feel like I'm driving with the video the streets of Toronto
nice
this is my everyday commute except its a nightmare during rush hour
Wow Toronto love from India i am soon coming with PR
Do you just do this for fun?
Minuto #2 Manhattan
I would like to work in canada but I don't know how.
We'll come to drive to North East india
If you watch CP24 (toronto news station) everyday a cyclist and/or pedestrain is hit if not multiple per day. Can be dangerous on both ends. Being a driver and a pedestrain u gotta be careful .. i dont care what torontos laws say i ride the sidewalk whenever i feel the roads not safe for my bicycle fuck anybody who says different. i dont feel i have the right of way any more then you do as a driver
Since Toronto is now in g20-land, it looks just as crappy as Sydney, Australia.
zarabiste
Everyone is acting like Toronto is just as awesome as all the American cities, which it isn't! I can't even relate to anything that's similar to this even in the U.S films.
David Mu Wow. Just wow. IF you actually do live in Toronto.. and that is a big "if" then I think you could do yourself and the rest of the city a big favour by moving back to where you last lived because likely you have forgotten why you moved in the first place.
Okay...but is it wrong to pick cities? People do this all the time, do they?
@David Mu
Of course it is not wrong, David, but, your whole thrust has been denying anyone else's choice of city if it happens to be Toronto. You don't like it, clearly, but you seem to have an extremely difficult time understanding that others seem to have adapted to living here considerably better than you have, and are indeed considerably happier. So, if it is not "wrong" for you to pick a city, can't you just accept that it is not "wrong" for other people to have a different opinion of Toronto?
I'm not a gangster, I'd be saving them and making things better about it, I don't need to encourage the worst. I'm a Mongoloid.
Video could be much shorter, that it is without waiting at a red light.
The Mississippi River City that I want to build for My Dream Family Run and Family Owned Big Giant Real-estate selling Business Would Cost an Estimate of $420 Quadrillion Dollar's to build but that is if it where built all at one Time and simultaneously By Million's of krain's all at one time and all built on 20 by 15 mile's of it's land mass needed to be bought for it right on the Mississippi River in general!
And so yeah it is a pipe Dream Big Time but hey it doesn't hurt to dream big once in a while If you know what I mean!
And That is how big, wild, and crazy I can Dream some time's And So yeah I em a pretty dens and heavy dreamer Big Time!
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I hate G-20~!ARRRR@#
What does that have to do with the video?
The City seems to be a very generic City! Same boring architecture found in the States!
Its not the architect but the diversity of the city that makes toronto vibrant, most diverse in the world
Boring
Cabbies suck.
What camera did you use for this video?