stuff to do in toronto canada

I am not ashamed to say that I'm happy you're enjoying Toronto. Considering how often one gets a "so when you moving to NYC?" question.

xpost: Was it at Libretto!?!? (Best Pizza in the city, no question).

yes! my friend really wanted me to try it so it wasn't just a coincidence we had the best pizza in the city.

also I saw a poster advertising a screening of a Jane Jacobs documentary which woulda been the perfect film to catch but I missed the last screening and am leaving tonight. sucks.

also woulda loved to try the bikeshare but I figured it's too cold to make the gf ride a bike.

did you see the spadina expressway plaque?

can you believe they were gonna build a highway there

yeah I did! I can see how that road could have 'made sense' as a freeway tho it would have really destroyed the heart of the city. a few days ago I walked down queen west til I hit the beach and then walked from there to high park and so I got to see the bleakness near the gardiner.

w/r/t that walk, parkdale is pretty interesting in that the gentrification seems to sorta sandwich a non-gentrified area

Yeah, it's been moving westward incredibly quickly, and in an incredibly homogenous fashion. I've been told, though, that because of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, there's an offsite slot for housing for people who go there that's fixed, or something like that, and hence will keep part of "that" "element" there. (Historically, I'm told, the area became kind of shabby partly because so many people coming off drug addictions or who had mental health issues (i.e. the typically unemployable) would naturally set up shop around CAMH. I probably got most of that wrong, though.

In any case, Queen West gentrification is sort of a whole beast unto itself.

most of south parkdale is still p 'non-gentrified' i guess? at least that seemed to be my impression when i was apt hunting. i think part of that is the community housing keeping rents low but idk.

south parkdale? that's me!

i am ashamed i did not notice this thread until just now.

sorry guys.

and yes - me rent is reddonk cheap - with view of the lake!

yah a friend of mine had an apt in one of the buildings on king just after the bend, you could see the lake from her balcony and it was really cheap but p skeezy

I didn't see the king area of parkdale but it makes sense that it would be sketchier. had lunch w/ clemenza at sneaky dee's and then went to greektown (that whole part of town is very astoria-queens-like. sorry for comparing everything to ny) and st lawrence market. that's prob it for our trip cause of the rain and all. we def had fun and my friend who we're staying w/ wants us to come back for some stuff in 2012 so it's not totally unlikely we'll be back. yay toronto.

sorry i missed you i slept until 1:30 and then just lazed and read and ate leftovers all afternoon but im glad you had a good time.

ya no worries, you should hit me up next time you're in ny