Best city in Canada
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Nanaimo has had over seventy days of
consecutive sunshine. We'll probably get another few weeks before our Biblical rain starts.(forty days and forty nights times two)
Visit Nanaimo and you'll love it. Stay for three months and you won't leave.
Best city in the world!
consecutive sunshine. We'll probably get another few weeks before our Biblical rain starts.(forty days and forty nights times two)
Visit Nanaimo and you'll love it. Stay for three months and you won't leave.
Best city in the world!
well i have a poor sampling rate. so far ive seen three cities in canada. but my favourite was St John's. The other ones were Toronto and Saint Catherine's
Best city
Kingston ontario by far!!!
Hey i don't even live there. Small and big at the same time. lots of history , tons of restaurants and Queens University....
Kingston ontario by far!!!
Hey i don't even live there. Small and big at the same time. lots of history , tons of restaurants and Queens University....
I vote for all the above, I love all of Canada. Someday I hope to have a summer home in BC, I can't stand the rain so spending a winter in BC is not going to happen. Two years in Victoria and 40 days of rain cured me of wanting to live in sunny BC in winter.
I went on a Cruise and was told that Victoria was the most beautiful city in the Alaska-tour Cruise... I would love to visit Victoria for a weekend... Are the museums accessible by public transpo?
Vancouver is the one
IMHO, Canada has two Great cities: Vancouver and Montreal.
Vancouver for its climate, and natural beauty and the sheer variety of climates and activities near by. Even though Calgary has mountains and snow it pales in comparison. The Bow River is not Burrard Inlet, Georgia Straight, the Pacific Ocean. Also, Vancouver has people living in its downtown.
Montreal is Great because of its history, its excellent culture mixture and latin/European flavouring which means living in the city not abandoning at 5 pm (like Toronto, Calgary or WInnipeg). One cold Tuesday December night I was walked up St Denis at 3 AM and cafes were open and people were sitting outside! Try to find that in Winnipeg, Calgary, or Edmonton.
Toronto, ah Toronto. The city we love to hate. I try, I have tried, but it it is the drink that always leaves me thirsty. I was there in late 80's, and again in early 2000, and even though it is getting better, which means more people living downtown than ever before, and accompanying downtown life, it still just doesn't have what I need. If only they could get those waterfront plans together. They could really learn from Vancouver's development of its waterfront most recently Coal Harbour. Lake Ontario is such an asset, yet Toronto is so so removed from it.
So, Vancouver is the one and if my French were better, and if I could just get over the snow and cold, Montreal.
IMHO, Canada has two Great cities: Vancouver and Montreal.
Vancouver for its climate, and natural beauty and the sheer variety of climates and activities near by. Even though Calgary has mountains and snow it pales in comparison. The Bow River is not Burrard Inlet, Georgia Straight, the Pacific Ocean. Also, Vancouver has people living in its downtown.
Montreal is Great because of its history, its excellent culture mixture and latin/European flavouring which means living in the city not abandoning at 5 pm (like Toronto, Calgary or WInnipeg). One cold Tuesday December night I was walked up St Denis at 3 AM and cafes were open and people were sitting outside! Try to find that in Winnipeg, Calgary, or Edmonton.
Toronto, ah Toronto. The city we love to hate. I try, I have tried, but it it is the drink that always leaves me thirsty. I was there in late 80's, and again in early 2000, and even though it is getting better, which means more people living downtown than ever before, and accompanying downtown life, it still just doesn't have what I need. If only they could get those waterfront plans together. They could really learn from Vancouver's development of its waterfront most recently Coal Harbour. Lake Ontario is such an asset, yet Toronto is so so removed from it.
So, Vancouver is the one and if my French were better, and if I could just get over the snow and cold, Montreal.
Cornell in Markham
Aaaaaah, finally somebody said Vancouver! This is my first post, y'all! and I was looking for a common place to start! I lived in Vancouver for about 10 years but have moved to Markham and have lived in this area for about 10 years too. Funny thing, neither place feels like home until I moved into the New Urbanism community of Cornell which is on the East side of Markham – I have even dedicated a website to it! A place is only beautiful when it feels like home (to me).
Aaaaaah, finally somebody said Vancouver! This is my first post, y'all! and I was looking for a common place to start! I lived in Vancouver for about 10 years but have moved to Markham and have lived in this area for about 10 years too. Funny thing, neither place feels like home until I moved into the New Urbanism community of Cornell which is on the East side of Markham – I have even dedicated a website to it! A place is only beautiful when it feels like home (to me).
oh man, easy question..everybody knows london ontario rocks. this city has anything you could need to be totally happy.
Yes, London, the city suffering from an inferiority complex-the "Toronto wanna be" place..hah hah hah(all meant in good fun of course) Everyone in this country knows Montreal is the heart and soul of Canada!
Aaaaaah, finally somebody said Vancouver! This is my first post, y'all! and I was looking for a common place to start! I lived in Vancouver for about 10 years but have moved to Markham and have lived in this area for about 10 years too. Funny thing, neither place feels like home until I moved into the New Urbanism community of Cornell which is on the East side of Markham – I have even dedicated a website to it! A place is only beautiful when it feels like home (to me).
I have never liked Vancouver. It is dirty, expensive and pretentious in my opinion. On the west coast, without a doubt the nicest city is Victoria, hands down.
Montreal
Lived in Mtl. North up to 10 years old, then had a 4 year stint of employment there later.
Love the Latin ethnic, ie: French and the Italians. I love the independant thinking, the nite life that takes you around the world in entertainment of your choice. The Italians are drawn to it like a magnet, the Americans find a familiarity in their way of delayed and independant stubborness.
The knee jerk all for one, one for all, rooted in British colonialist descendancy of the Canadian patriot that is expected of every Canadian when an issue calls for it is contemplated longer by the Montrealer.
The rest of Quebec still carries the independance that I like, but without the cultural contribution and it's benefits that Montreal has.
AndyF
I'll have to vote for Ottawa, but I can sympathize with those who find it boring. When you've lived in a small northern Ontario town of 3,500 though for 20 years, it's pretty exciting in comparison. For us, there's nothing more satisfying than spending a fall afternoon walking around the market, looking at the displays, walking through the small, personal shops, picking out locally-grown produce on the cheap and then knowing you can cross through the Rideau Mall and take a bus right to your house.
For those in that situation, Ottawa is perfect. It's not too large, nicely set up for public transportation and travel, within a day's drive of Montreal, Quebec City, the GTA and the US and captures the essence of big city life without being towering and overwhelming like places like Toronto and Montreal are. I love going to Toronto for pleasure, but only in small doses; it's just too much.
Montreal on the other hand, I loathe. I spent a couple of months living there in the student ghetto while my wife was attending McGill. Yech. Cockroaches, the tiny apartment, the bums accosting us and living in the stairwell, the daily fire alarms set off, the dirtiness of the downtown and the complete language barrier (I'd hate to be a tourist there with absolutely no concept of French), coupled with the fact that it always seems to have a dark cloud hanging over it, makes me hate it with maximum contempt. I'm probably the only one who has ever thought so, too.
We'll be heading out to settle permanently in Kanata in the near future, and frankly, I can't wait. While we are enjoying being back in small town northern Ontario while my wife finishes up a teaching contract (the rent is very cheap, as we are currently paying $500/month for a two-storey, three bedroom home as opposed to $800/month for a one-room apartment in South Keys, Ottawa) and it's nice to be treated like a part of a family in a small community, Ottawa is where our hearts lie.
For us, there's nothing more satisfying than spending a fall afternoon walking around the market, looking at the displays, walking through the small, personal shops, picking out locally-grown produce on the cheap and then knowing you can cross through the Rideau Mall and take a bus right to your house.For those in that situation, Ottawa is perfect. It's not too large, nicely set up for public transportation and travel, within a day's drive of Montreal, Quebec City, the GTA and the US and captures the essence of big city life without being towering and overwhelming like places like Toronto and Montreal are. I love going to Toronto for pleasure, but only in small doses; it's just too much.
Montreal on the other hand, I loathe. I spent a couple of months living there in the student ghetto while my wife was attending McGill. Yech. Cockroaches, the tiny apartment, the bums accosting us and living in the stairwell, the daily fire alarms set off, the dirtiness of the downtown and the complete language barrier (I'd hate to be a tourist there with absolutely no concept of French), coupled with the fact that it always seems to have a dark cloud hanging over it, makes me hate it with maximum contempt. I'm probably the only one who has ever thought so, too.
We'll be heading out to settle permanently in Kanata in the near future, and frankly, I can't wait. While we are enjoying being back in small town northern Ontario while my wife finishes up a teaching contract (the rent is very cheap, as we are currently paying $500/month for a two-storey, three bedroom home as opposed to $800/month for a one-room apartment in South Keys, Ottawa) and it's nice to be treated like a part of a family in a small community, Ottawa is where our hearts lie.