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erm, I disagree with the men of Vancouver.

i wonder how much miami will loose in devalued property taxes? ..

 

anyway, can't comment on the project itself since i'm not familiar enough with it's proposed location, but miami is an odd town at times and such a thing may not necesserily be out of place.. but, 500 ft? damn.. thats one hell of a billboard!

 

can't imagine what would be heritage montreal's reaction to something like that!.. anaphylactic shock, probably...

Hrm. I used to live in Miami. As far as property values go, at this point they really couldn't go much lower before they start giving condos away (in comparison to before the crash). I think it'll be another decade before home prices start to rise and become a good investment again.

Your location states that you are from New-York. May I ask why you are on this forum and how you first went here ?

Was an undergrad, at Mcgill but do a lot of travel to Canada for business. Find habfanman a repulsive human being.

It saddens me that someone over 40 behaves like a 20 year old with obsessive compulsive disorder. I mean really, what does he contribute to this forum but general negativity? At some point, it's time to let go. There's a lot to appreciate in Canada as a whole without the fake rivalries. Curiosity is a good thing.

By the way, I don't find Torontonians focus on the Montreal/Toronto rivalry at all. They seem to like Montreal. They seem to like all cities in Canada and beyond.

Une plage quand l'eau du lac est trop polluée pour s'y baigner, c'est un peu poche.

It's just a myth the beaches in Toronto are polluted. They just have stricter standards for recommending when to swim. Beach culture is pretty entrenched there.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/834620--are-you-afraid-of-the-lake-chill-out?bn=1

This is a bit like carrying coal to Newcastle. Chicago and Toronto already have built in comedy scenes with a myriad of venues and clubs year round for this sort of thing. Perhaps they should have franchised in Pittsburgh or Miami or Calgary.

It's kind of like exporting the jazz fest to New Orleans. If it was for quick bucks, more power to them. But Just for Laughs won't have staying power in either city.

Just for Laughs is a franchise now. I believe it even occurs in Chicago.

"You forget that Montréal has already hosted the 2 largest events that a city can host: the Summer Olympics and a full-fledged World Fair. No other city in the world has done both. Add to that, the largest sporting event that a city can host: Formula One, whereas Toronto has done fuck-all and will probably never do anything memorable.

Toronto is a wannabe, never has been, never will be anything but a second-rate American city."

Great accomplishments. 40 years ago. None of which you were around for and non of which YOU contributed to. Listen, no one is going to convince you of anything but answer me this, if you despise Toronto so much, why spend so much of your time commenting on every single thread that mentions it? You only seem to pop up on this forum when the city is mentioned to make some grand unhinged and untrue commentary, throw some mud and then slink away back under your rock until the next time. If that's not the definition of insecure and bitter...

Really, you give Montrealers a bad name. There are plenty of cities I've lived that I'm not fond of: I hate Boston, despise the entire state of Florida and I'm not a fan of L.A. (even though I could see myself living there), Seattle, Chicago, Rome etc. but I don't spend inordinate time during my day to hate on them or even think about them. I'm just confident I won't ever revisit or (re)inhabit them (except maybe L.A.) and have moved on. You should too!

Really, it's sad, your country is so fractured and regional and on some levels full of hate. It's what prevents it from moving from a mediocre nation to a good or great one and prevents people like myself from wanting to stay and be a part of it.

"I don't know if you've ever been to TIFF - I have - and it's only a big party if you're in the industry or are willing to spend vast amounts of money. For the average person, it's a nightmare of lineups where you're lucky to get tickets for any of your choices unless you pay several 100$."

Uh no. I've been. It's popular, hence the line ups and but it's still very much a democratic festival that showcases film before anything else. The industry stuff is the icing on the cake for many (stargazers included) but first and foremost it's about discovering new talent and celebrating film. It maintains a good balance between industry and fan, unlike Cannes or Sundance. And anyway, Torontonians seem to line up for everything.

And by your logic the Pan Am games are "third rate" yet the World Aquatic Championships that no one has ever heard about are somehow a great event with spin-off benefits? Hmmm.

"What you should really be asking yourself is this: Why doesn't Toronto create something and export it to the rest of the world like Montréal does?"

Well apparently they've cornered the market on bitter ex residents...

Trends are sort of overrated and really for the under 25 crowd (and maybe younger). Style is more important.

Skinny jeans for example weren't exactly some out of nowhere trend picked up by the masses. They were a carefully marketed trend. Clothing companies like Levis went into young neighborhoods and started offering the style and paying up and coming bands to wear their stuff and it was picked up and exploded. It's fake "from the street" trend spotting.

This whole marketing of the alternative culture thing started with the "discovery" of grunge -pre internet and now with the internet and media saturation just makes it easier.

The truth is, there's really very little you can do with clothing trends to make them seem new anymore so recycling is really what goes on. The only real people that "pop" anymore are those that gender mix or just look so hideous and ridiculous that you can't help but notice (and even that isn't all that original).

Designers will go where the media and money is to show their collections. But it has very little to do with where they work or get their inspiration from. Look at Dean and Dan Caten, successful Canadian designers that show in Milan -but with a style that is unmistakeably Canadian. They wouldn't be half as famous if they showed in Toronto or Montreal or even Los Angeles (and I seriously doubt New York too).

Geez Habsfanman, insecure much?

You make some good arguments but slathering them in this weird misplaced anger kinda makes them moot.

Houston is a pit and I don't think I'm being ungenerous when I say that.

But it has a couple of things going for it: 1. a great winter climate if you hate cold and 2. it's still better than Dallas.

Obviously this issue has yet to be released, but has anyone seen this yet? This seems like a Montreal bashing field day.

 

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/08/macleans-covers-gallery/mac_cover_091109/

 

 

Calling Montreal a disgrace is a very strong statement, as while they sit in their Toronto office buildings, their city is suffering from many more homicides as well as a massive polarization of wealth, as the middle class drains itself to the far reaches of the GTA.

 

I'm not saying that Montreal doesn't have its problems, but this seems to be utterly gratuitous, on the part of those who seem to love to see us fail.

Oh dear, I don't think this is a reflection on the part of Torontonians who to tell you the truth are too self involved and only give a passing thought to Montreal, or Halifax for that matter. Like you said they have their own problems or things to do and deal with so I doubt they even care.

If anything this article will sell tons of copies in Quebec and maybe the schadenfreude-prone West but that's about it. Maclean's is like Time magazine, nobody really reads it unless they're in waiting room somewhere.

And like GDS said, Torontonians have been the subject of these sorts of articles (and films) for years. And all it does is make them develop a thicker skin.

Remember this is Canada where 70 murders a year in a metropolitan area of 3 or 4 million is considered high. Montreal is not turning into Chicago or New Orleans for that matter but those sensationalistic parallels sell magazines.

I'm not sure Ontario is necessarily more anti-American. After all it's ties to the U.S. are huge and most people from that region have at least one relative in the U.S. and vice versa. If anything it may seem so because it's home to the largest number of American expats in Canada and thus there's probably a larger number of reportable anti-American experience. If anything it's probably more of a generational thing as Ontario moves its focus more south and less east west. Most of my Ontario friends admit they feel closer to the U.S. than the rest of the country.

But I will also say, a lot of Americans don't always speak about Canada in the most generous of terms either. Just as the Australians and New Zealanders have their own issues as well.

Anyway I'd take anything written by that weasel Robert Fulford with a grain of salt. Canada certainly doesn't have a monopoly on "knee jerk" anti-Americanism as anyone who's ever spent time with the Brits or Europeans knows.