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Originally Posted by Gerrard
Actually, you never see people in Toronto arguing about why Canadian City x won't ever get international flights. I'm not even sure why that would ever come up in conversation.
But I suppose what you really mean is people in Cdn city x have conversations in which they imagine what Torontonians might be saying and that just (needlessly) boils their blood.
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People from Toronto (and other large cities, including Montreal) do this to people from smaller cities all the time.
"Oh, you guys have (insert amenity X)
here? Wow!"
Of course, some people can be overly sensitive or misinterpret.
In my youth I was once in a small Maritime town with a relative who's lived there all her life. I guess I was her relative from "Ontario".
When walking down the main street I noticed a drive-through bank window and said "hey, you guys have drive-up bank tellers!"
To which she quickly responded: "it's not as if we're in the dark ages here!"
In fact, my surprise wasn't meant to be condescending. It was because we didn't even have them (at the time) in the much larger Ontario city where I was from.