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Originally Posted by trofirhen
This is the second thread in the Toronto forum section where I noticed people in in Toronto are identifying with, and comparing their city with, places in the Eastern USA.
Hey, not a problem, but simply an evdence that the geographic proximity of the Eastern USA exerts a powerful influence on the way Torontonians - and other Canadians in the east
see themselves.
As I remarked in the "Toronto and Queens, NY" (sic) thread, in Vancouver we take a lot of cues from San Francisco and Seattle, and people here often visit there venturing back east
as is the case with my family.
It seems part of the nebulosity of the Canadian identity.
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I take it as there not being a ton of Canadian cities of similar sizes, that it's easier to look to the US for comparisons. In London, we had a lot of talk about our riverfront and what to do with it, and the most talked about ideas came from comparisons to San Antonio Texas. Not that anything has been acted upon.