TORONTO HAS CHANGED... and not for the better

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[@JimMork]

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[@RIZFERD]

These people's condition living homeless isn't new in the history of human existence. They weren't prepared for the constant change of life, the evolution including world order reset, digitalisation, internet of things including cryptocurrency as fiat currency (USD, GBP, EUR, etc) is losing its power slowly. Born a complete multiracial multilingual Indonesian incognito royal living around the world all alone since childhood as rough as I can say those not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are the same apes never evolved inside their tiny boxes and learned nothing from the past to evolve better.

[@masternobody1896]

new govt. leaders needed

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[@AnthonyManzio]

Move to Montreal

[@petermelnikov682]

Entire Canada has changed...

[@petermelnikov682]

@@MalibuMerle cost of living, increased itinerance and drugs related crimes are not helping to build a good image of Canada and Montreal. That's not the part of the Canada's dream.

[@edimi2454]

And not for good... Unfortunately. 🤐

[@MaxwellMax]

And not for the better.

[@mortgagedavid]

It's not just Canada however it is the entire world there is a bigger money gap between the different classes and it is very relative

[@amandeepv]

Yes all the Indians came in

[@mikeyitalian1981]

Born and raised Torontonian And lived in Toronto for 42 years now i'm still here but things have gone downhill a lot in the past 5 years.

[@mactravel112]

It's definitely a shithole. But been that way for years now

[@downtomars6268]

This goes for the rest Canada. Not enough resources to accommodate newcomers, classrooms are overflowing, rent prices are similar in all major cities.

[@mactravel112]

@@downtomars6268yup. Sure does. Gotta feel for the poor people living there.

[@BG-wm2tw]

What happened in last 5 years?

[@basicinfo2022]

quality of life globally has gone down because our governments are corrupted and colluding with billionaires.

[@Andrico77]

Born and raised in Toronto, the last 7 years have been a dramatic decline in livability and increase in crime. Sad to see the city I love go downhill with no end in sight.

[@mtlnascarfan]

But haven't you heard from Trudeau? Our strength is in our diversity! 🙄

[@tuttuttut7758]

Don’t forget the neo liberal politics. It’s been killing the middle class since the 80s, yet we vote for it ourselves. But hurrah I guess?

[@ArohaStill]

​@@mtlnascarfanit has nothing to do with diversity you racist and it has everything to do with a terrible taxation system, rampant inflation, a downward push on wages which has been happening for decades and a failure to implement rent controls oh and let's not forget the closure of mental health and addiction facilities which Once Upon a Time did exist

[@shamila774]

You are million times right every field is going down rapidly, especially Healthcare and home care for elderly is a extreme mess, people come to help elders but they just want to sit and leave because no one is there to monitor them if you talk to the manager they also support that injustice. Canada is tuning in many fields worst than third world countries ,it is really sad to see.

[@mtlnascarfan]

@@shamila774 Canada is turning into something worse than 3rd world countries because our system is overloaded by people coming here from 3rd world countries.

[@gscudder5123]

You're not even from Toronto, you dont know how good it actually was... Only people born and raised know the true tragedy of the situation.

[@istvanglock7445]

"Toronto has changed ... not for the better" Well, that's something that can be said of every city in Canada. Personally, I blame incompetent management of immigration. Just too many people flooding in too fast, and the country can't cope.

[@paulmaul2186]

Immigration is at the root of many, if not all, of Canada's problems. The numbers are FAR too high, and have been for decades. It's also poorly managed, allowing in people who defraud the system, who are fake refugees, who commit crime, and who are a burden on the healthcare system. A great many voices have been raising concerns for many years, but we were completely ignored by politicians and journalists and were almost invariably dismissed as racists and xenophobes. BUT Canadians kept voting for politicians that supported that flawed system so you get what you get.

[@magahatatheist1838]

It's all by design. Remember what Santa Klauss said about infiltrating Canada's cabinet ?

[@user-bi8wp6wy3l]

Canada is not the only one with this problem the Australian government is also allowing record numbers of immigrants to enter the country during a housing crisis... the number of people coming into our Australian cities on study visas is out of control. We also have a problem with homelessness but nowhere near as bad as what was shown in this video. If the current immigration policy doesnt change its possible we could end up like that.

[@jbitts]

it's spreading everywhere like wildfire, I'm 4 hours north and it's gotten crazy bad.

[@jeffreywise4807]

Immigration is the major reason why Canada is doing as well as it is. Your statement is incorrect, unless you see diversity as an ill in and if itself.

[@Gcescon]

I'm brazilian and run a language school in my country. I've been to Toronto 3 times in exchange programs with my students. The first time, in 2012, I found the city amazing and incredibly safe. The second time, in 2018, I noticed a small change for worse in terms of security and homelesness. My last time in Toronto was this year, and I felt myself very insecure and saw things that I wasn’t accostumed to seeing not even here in Brazil. It’s a pity, because Toronto is an unique city and it has potencial to be very developed socially speaking. Unfortunately, I'm searching for alternative destinations to take my students abroad.

[@stevestevens502]

are you talking about the open air drug use in toronto now?

[@Lpmeff]

Canada use to be a wonderful country,

[@jasonmcguire4655]

" Try Moscow "

[@JimMork]

@@jasonmcguire4655 Under Gorbachev or Putin?

[@AJ-bh7vm]

Toronto is 100 times safer than any big size Brazilian cities. Your country has some of the most dangerous cities in the world. You are lot safer in Toronto compared to your very dangerous cities like Rio De Janeiro and Sao Palo. In Brazil, even your small cities such as Feira DE Santa are extremely dangerous. Feira de Santana, a city in Brazil with 100,000 people is considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Brazil as whole is a very dangerous country with crime everywhere. I will be scared to live in Brazil, you should be worried about living in your country instead worrying about Toronto, which is lot safer than any of your cities in Brazil.

[@squidge125]

I visited Toronto from the UK in 2000 age 18, it was like a utopia compared to London, spotlessly clean, safe, affordable and the people were so friendly. So sad to see the changes.

[@nuudelz3711]

It’s still the same just depends on your neighbourhood. A lot of this is because people don’t like how the communities from 10-20 years ago are gone now (due to high economic costs for being in canadas largest city) and have been replaced by different ethnic groups than were in the area previously. Since 2016 we haven’t been as welcoming as Canada is known for..

[@julianprince8162]

London wasn't that bad in 2000

[@broddablack5290]

So sad I’m from Toronto but now live in London U.K. which I love ❤

[@broddablack5290]

It has become so dangerous! The transit system was never like this!

[@broddablack5290]

So many homeless people! I couldn’t believe it

[@DarkStar3147]

Canada in general has changed, and not for the better in the last 15 years. The cost of living has gone through the roof, and salaries are not any better. This is from the point of view of someone from Montreal, so I cannot even imagine how expensive Toronto and Vancouver must now be.

[@VS257]

Too many Indians invading, welcomed by Turdeau and Jagmeet

[@markferguson7563]

At the 10 minute and 30 second point in this clip Alina gets around to highlighting how refugees are sleeping on the streets. And also, how international students can’t find accommodation and, indeed, with rents being affordable. One young woman, seethes telling is that she is “ashamed and discussed” about the plights of (as it is demonstrated by the video) are all black Africans. Well, what a total insanity it is that, we have this mid-20-year-old bleeding-heart demanding that more be done to help refugees when her fellow-Canadians are dispossessed in their own country. So, I wonder how many of these African refugees she has arranged to stay at her own, of some of her relatives’ abodes. But, considering there would EASILY be 2 billion featureless bipeds traipsing the planet residing in the Third World who reside in dire economic, and sociological quagmires, and would UPROOT themselves in a moment to go a western country to get free housing and welfare means it wouldn’t take long to transform these places they lob in, to be turned into Third World shitholes. In Britain (overwhelmingly England) over 80 percent of robberies, and knife crimes are carried out by black African youths who are mainly the offspring of asylum seekers from Africa. In France, Africa youths are also a huge part of their social problems. And it’s all manifestly due to the fact that, Africans are overtly devoid of the capacity to study really hard - like Chinese or Indians - to improve their lots. Hence, they are (as the fellow in the reddish colour shirt bemoans) looking for handouts. As for international students: they (and not just in Canada) are a major reason why there is a housing crisis and, moreover, why rents are excessive. International students in Canada, Australia, Holland and NZ, are in plague proportions and are a HUGE problem: well, except for the people running education institutions, and employers who exploit them for low wages.

[@terryl6706]

Unchecked immigration and not enough jobs or public services is playing out across the globe.Our government’s have lost control of the situation.

[@-ns-8972]

Immigration is not the problem, managing the inflow of immigrant population in 1 particular city is the problem. Not sanctioning more good and reputed uni's and colleges outside of toronto is the problem. Not expanding and developing city outwards is again a HUGE mistake. Not keeping real estate price in check is again a HUGE HUGE problem. I have more to list but it's useless mentioning and cribbing about it here.

[@fraz2983]

It's not 1 city... It's Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and then further down the list to other places like Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax etc. It's not just inflow management... it's a fire hose to the face and from countries on this planet that require extreme vetting before letting in. There are many sought after uni's outside Toronto. Queens, Western, Waterloo, Mcgill, McMaster, University of Ottawa and on and on. When our leadership and domestic policy is to grow this nation exponentially through immigration rather than multi-generation citizens having babies because they can't afford their own lives here... that's a problem. @@-ns-8972

[@John_Stone_]

@@-ns-8972 "Immigration is not the problem" Yes it is. The denialism is old.

[@JadeeCee-ty1he]

On a smaller scale comparison, it's like a household, if the parents do not manage funds properly or make sound decisions and judgement, the household will not sustain in the end. We have bad "managers of funds and decisions for the country " ...things will deteriorate.

[@barunkumar1047]

Justin Trudeau is more than happy to grant citizenship to international terrorists seeking asylum in Canada 😈😈😈

[@susanstewart1402]

We lived in Toronto for 30 years and moved to Calgary 6 years ago because of a good job offer, and the hope for a less congested, polluted, dangerous, expensive environment. Here in Calgary, we are living in the inner core and can enjoy sitting in the back garden without hearing the drone of traffic or airplanes. Toronto was fabulous from 1994 to 2014. All our friends and family who still live there are unhappy with the decline of the city.

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

calgary has a worst crime rate than toronto and toronto is twice its population. more break ins and assaults as well.

[@markc1551]

@@giovanni-ed7zq Calgary is also much less multicultural and diverse if that's important to you.

[@markc1551]

Calgary, today, is no comparison to Toronto in terms of a livable and vibrant city. This "decline" that you and others are referring to is generalized for anywhere in the country and even in other countries.

[@user-pe3tt7iu7g]

Calgary isn't good for young people anymore. Less and lower paying jobs, dangerous public transport/downtown & inflated house prices due to house poor people from Vancouver/Toronto moving here.

[@queenwest6228]

​@@giovanni-ed7zqToronto is worse then calgary

[@lisametauro7199]

I was born and raised in Toronto and lived 57 years there. 6 months ago, I moved to Saskatchewan having never visited before. I'm ashamed of Toronto. It's not what it was. I outgrew it and although I have good memories of what it once was, it no longer is. And I will forever tell everyone it's not even worth the visit.

[@TheJlee28]

It’s still ok if you know how to adapt. It’s much worse than before but we are working on it.

[@lisametauro7199]

That's my point. I'd rather not adapt to what Toronto has become.@@TheJlee28

[@TheJlee28]

@@lisametauro7199 you don’t need to come back and I’m sure you’ve outgrown to be small town dweller, which is great. We live on tree lined streets, subway 5 min walk away, private front and backyards, 2000 sqft with double density coming up. We duplicate this 10 times and now we go help out the homeless people, who are unfortunately victims of misfortune. We grow with it and never outgrow it. We love it when the streets are mostly cleaned now. Everyone deserves dignity, including the unfortunate ones. We are not ashamed of them, as it’s part of the big city. I will move to small town for vacation but always stay here during working months.

[@TheJlee28]

@@lisametauro7199 she deleted my comment. TO cleans up already.

[@TheJlee28]

This Aline is a witch who censors comments and pretends she is still from Toronto.

[@gregmchale5011]

many problems in Toronto and Canada overall is the high immigration rate hundreds of thousands being added by the Federal Government with no planning by Provincial and Local Governments... it is crazy to bring so many in and not have a real plan to deal with housing and other issues associated with living in Canada today.

[@TheJlee28]

Because of the pandemic and crazy fed… it’s improving.

[@markferguson7563]

At the 10 minute and 30 second point in this clip Alina gets around to highlighting how refugees are sleeping on the streets. And also, how international students can’t find accommodation and, indeed, with rents being affordable. One young woman, seethes telling is that she is “ashamed and discussed” about the plights of (as it is demonstrated by the video) are all black Africans. Well, what a total insanity it is that, we have this mid-20-year-old bleeding-heart demanding that more be done to help refugees when her fellow-Canadians are dispossessed in their own country. So, I wonder how many of these African refugees she has arranged to stay at her own, of some of her relatives’ abodes. But, considering there would EASILY be 2 billion featureless bipeds traipsing the planet residing in the Third World who reside in dire economic, and sociological quagmires, and would UPROOT themselves in a moment to go a western country to get free housing and welfare means it wouldn’t take long to transform these places they lob in, to be turned into Third World shitholes. In Britain (overwhelmingly England) over 80 percent of robberies, and knife crimes are carried out by black African youths who are mainly the offspring of asylum seekers from Africa. In France, Africa youths are also a huge part of their social problems. And it’s all manifestly due to the fact that, Africans are overtly devoid of the capacity to study really hard - like Chinese or Indians - to improve their lots. Hence, they are (as the fellow in the reddish colour shirt bemoans) looking for handouts. As for international students: they (and not just in Canada) are a major reason why there is a housing crisis and, moreover, why rents are excessive. International students in Canada, Australia, Holland and NZ, are in plague proportions and are a HUGE problem: well, except for the people running education institutions, and employers who exploit them for low wages.

[@slotreality]

I am 54 years old and raced in Toronto. Toronto is not a good place anymore but just last week I visited Ottawa for the first time and the capital of Canada was not any better, I was surprised by the amount of homeless sleeping outside not far from the Parliament building. What happens to Canada is beyond my understanding. An apt in my building was around 1300 for two bedroom and that now is around 2800 just past the pandemic. I can only say that corruption is one of the big players why Canada has become like that and the break-down of the social safety net. Pensión plana are very low.

[@glowndark1]

The failure of the economic system, liberal capitalism, which is part of democratic system, this economic model enrichs the rich, they don't have to work a single day in their lives but live a far more comfortable life than those who are poor who unfortunately will became much poorer over time because this system just suck everything out of the working class until they nothing more..

[@mE-zx7pt]

Same in U.S.

[@fz4540]

Political correctness is killing Canada. So sad to witness the change since 2015, and you all know why.

[@johnmorelli3775]

You can thank Trudeau. Lots of people in Ontario voted for him!

[@chromaticvisuelle]

​@@fz4540you should educate yourself better about the so called "political correctness"

[@seancurran2054]

I was just in Toronto yesterday and I noticed how many homeless there were compared to when I was there in 2019. It breaks my heart because I spent so much time in the city growing up.

[@alexguolo5872]

over 400k people moved into the GTA in 2022. its a mess

[@alexguolo5872]

the entire 401 is just jammed all day

[@dereksbooks]

Come to Vancouver. It's even worse here for homelessness, drugs, and housing costs. Unlike Vancouver, at least Toronto has a big economy to match its housing costs.

[@JimMork]

@@alexguolo5872 Do you have a sense what they expected to find? I had very limited goals for my short visit. Never a thought of being a resident. Canada's a huge country. Being admitted is no requirement of seeking the most crushing burden. I knew long ago I wouldn't bring Canada economic value. I was surviving where I was. My niece works in a BC casino. They are getting by with a home far from Vancouver.

[@pinetworkminer8377]

Possibly due to COVID?

[@shoke1729]

10 years ago, I moved from Toronto (my hometown) to Alberta . Probably the best decision I ever made financially. Cost of housing and gas is cheaper and my salary is also higher. Less crowded as well and I’m not stuck in traffic all day!

[@narcyznarcyz-uv4td]

but I have to deal with winter 8 months a year

[@andreibutnariu8827]

@@narcyznarcyz-uv4tdAgree. I have been doing this for the past 10 years in north of Sweden.

[@JeffSSartor]

Please keep telling everyone that. ​@@narcyznarcyz-uv4td

[@amym3169]

Better than months and months of summer humidity.

[@narcyznarcyz-uv4td]

@@amym3169 My friend got a job in Edmonton .on contract for 3 years.. After 2 years living in Albetra she told me that the first think she is going to do after her contract expires is moving back to Toronto because of winter.. For 6 months you drive every day on snowy roads and temperature. is between - 10 and - 35. she said .. Thanks a lot...

[@user-zu9go2fm8g]

Lived in Toronto for over 20 years and worked in the city for over 30 years. Recently involuntarily "retired" from a major financial institution. I am grateful that I have a nice home and am able to pay my bills, because I made good choices while working (saving, investing and paying off debt). It is very, very hard to live in Toronto earning less than $80,000 a year (pre-tax) in a safe neighbourhood. A minimum weekly income of $1,200 is recommended to afford rent, groceries, transportation, entertainment and recreational activities with personal care expenditures. You can live on less but definitely not on a $20 hourly wage. Video is very accurate about 2024 conditions in the city.

[@TheJlee28]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That’s weird! I’ve no mortgage, but expenses on house $800 a month, $300 grocery, $350 medical as I live with chronic pain, phone Internet $140. My budget is less than 2000 a month and I WFH. Everything else I save. You guys must live lavish lifestyle. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-zu9go2fm8g]

@@TheJlee28 Yes once you have no mortgage your housing costs really decline. I still have a mortgage and condo fees plus property tax. Once I get the mortgage paid off in 2 years I can live on $3k month including a vacation. It's definitely good to live within your means. No credit card balance ever.

[@TheJlee28]

@@user-zu9go2fm8g 👍👍👍👍👍👍 excellent!!!! WFH saves a lot as I’m not eating out nor spending anything on transit.

[@absolutelypitiful3837]

In Quebec City, my house that I bought a year ago cost me almost five times less than it would cost in Toronto, and I get one of the safest cities in the world with absolutely fantastic quality of life. I can afford it on a single average income while I take care of my disabled wife and of my daughter. Really, the choice is easy. We would live in absolute misery and squalor in the big expensive cities.

[@ericperreault8889]

it's coming for quebec as well...less fast than toronto or montreal but these issues are slowly getting bigger in quebec as well not to the point of not feeling safe there but I keep my eyes open a lot more than I used to...I even go to levis more than quebec these days...let's hope that it won't get to the tipping point

[@BG-ig6fd]

I used to live in Québec City for nine years (1992-2001). The cost of housing there has more than doubled to tripled, yet salaries remain low there. We would have moved back a long time ago if we could have afforded it. The gap between salaries and cost of living have gotten insane in most places. WHEN will our governments acknowledge it?

[@cost7569]

Quebec City is still safe and great because it didn't hit with diversity yet.

[@FastGuy1]

⁠@@cost7569Exactly, I went to Quebec City in November and after visitng Montreal too I can say its definitely the diversity. Quebec still feels like one of the last pockets of fresh air while the rest of Canada goes down the drain. I hope Quebec City still continues to thrive the way it is

[@TheJlee28]

If one has been living in Toronto for a long time, there’s no affordability issue.

[@Chuck8541]

Sadly this is happening to a lot of western cities these days. It seems like an intentional self-inflicted would that our legislators are doing to our cities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Best bet is to get away from all big cities if you can. It's cheaper to live, and depending on local politicians - safer.

[@jonm3131]

car-centric infrastucture is the obvious cultprit..but tbh seems more like a root cause of greed and capitalism

[@LadyScaper]

There is also the impact of the pandemic, which I think people are missing.

[@allykhan8594]

Real wealth nett is moving East from the West.

[@chris_hawk]

I'm thinking of leaving Toronto for a smaller city in Ontario, but first I gotta save up some money to move. The people here are stressed, rude, and fake. The climate (winter for half the year) doesn't make the experience any less unpleasant. It's true that there's a neighbourhood for everyone here, but no one ever smiles. I've been to Barrie, Oakville, Hamilton and the people there are always pleasant. If you care about quality of life, do NOT come to Toronto. This is a city of many promises, but few returns.

[@Chuck8541]

@@chris_hawk Good luck to you, man.

[@Loretta_C]

I lived in Toronto for 37 years and left 5 years ago. I am not convinced I want to stay where I am forever, but I cannot see myself moving back there specifically.

[@PRETTYGROSSSTREETFOOD]

Chinese Hong Kong Torontonian here. Grew up in the T Dot. Back in the 80s people don't even lock their front doors at night and it just took a short 15 mins drive from downtown to Markham. Average Property value was at around 200 to 300k for a double garage detached house in the GTA. Today...... I rest my case.

[@markferguson7563]

At the 10 minute and 30 second point in this clip Alina gets around to highlighting how refugees are sleeping on the streets. And also, how international students can’t find accommodation and, indeed, with rents being affordable. One young woman, seethes telling is that she is “ashamed and discussed” about the plights of (as it is demonstrated by the video) are all black Africans. Well, what a total insanity it is that, we have this mid-20-year-old bleeding-heart demanding that more be done to help refugees when her fellow-Canadians are dispossessed in their own country. So, I wonder how many of these African refugees she has arranged to stay at her own, of some of her relatives’ abodes. But, considering there would EASILY be 2 billion featureless bipeds traipsing the planet residing in the Third World who reside in dire economic, and sociological quagmires, and would UPROOT themselves in a moment to go a western country to get free housing and welfare means it wouldn’t take long to transform these places they lob in, to be turned into Third World shitholes. In Britain (overwhelmingly England) over 80 percent of robberies, and knife crimes are carried out by black African youths who are mainly the offspring of asylum seekers from Africa. In France, Africa youths are also a huge part of their social problems. And it’s all manifestly due to the fact that, Africans are overtly devoid of the capacity to study really hard - like Chinese or Indians - to improve their lots. Hence, they are (as the fellow in the reddish colour shirt bemoans) looking for handouts. As for international students: they (and not just in Canada) are a major reason why there is a housing crisis and, moreover, why rents are excessive. International students in Canada, Australia, Holland and NZ, are in plague proportions and are a HUGE problem: well, except for the people running education institutions, and employers who exploit them for low wages.

[@soha7271]

I’m currently in Toronto to take my son to college, after an absence of 40 years since graduation I hardly recognise this place anymore. So many homeless around and it’s saddened to see how great this city was in my days here

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

3 million in the city core its gonna change. still has a lower crime rate than calgary half its size.

[@iWhisperASMR]

I tried to give one of them $100 bill and he refused it, like adamantly. I worked downtown at the local temp agency and they were not homeless as a means of protest, they are that way by choice. No one chooses to live in a million dollar mansion, but when it comes to destitution, almost all religious people vow poverty. Yet when you look ugly, you're a problem.

[@ricosuave4275]

@@Natureandcrystalshealstheheart Honest Ed you mean? Yes I remember, especially the free Turkey every year at Thanksgiving.

[@Navy35]

Diversity is our strength

[@johnmorelli3775]

You can thank Trudeau!

[@AnalystRK]

I have lived in almost every big cities in Canada, situation is same everywhere in Canada. There have been massive decline in quality of life in recent few years.

[@user-de5ww5mc7d]

exactly .many things disturb me and people i talk to.liberals turned this country to be expensive ,not safe and less happy to live in .

[@backintimealwyn5736]

mass migration is not a sustainable practice. Every country doing this right now are having the exact same issues. It does'n tmean that you don't like the people coming in , it's just that it does'nt work, to much, to fast, not enough ressources to share. And by the way I'm writing from Europe, the new knaife atacks you've been experiencing latelay are nothing "random". We have them here too, 120 a day, and they come with refugees from the middle east. There is no ignoring it, it will only get worse.

[@bonjouritsready]

⁠@@backintimealwyn5736I’m not messing mate, it sounds like most of them refugees speak better English than you

[@reekinronald6776]

@@backintimealwyn5736 Read these comments. I see a lot of comments saying how sad it is to see Toronto and Canada decline. It's odd that no one actually asks the question, "Why?", or "How can we stop it?". The reason is that everyone knows, but are too timid to publicly state it, or simply can't face the fact that their Progressive ideology, the one that the West has been following since WWII, has been a disaster of historical proportions. The entire population of the West simply can't handle the Truth and thus ignores it to their ultimate destruction. I tip my hat to you. You have were brave enough to point out the reality.

[@cashway0420]

There's been problems since a certain someone has been PM...

[@aclem8246]

I lived in Toronto years ago. It was nice in summer but in reality the weather is only warm 2 months of the year and the winters are very cold. I moved to the US and have lived in Manhattan, Ft Lauderdale, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Seattle. Each place has its own special things and negatives. Nothing is perfect but I do prefer a longer warmer climate.

[@amym3169]

So would you rather live in Toronto or Manhattan? A longer warmer DRY climate you mean. Here in NYC the summer humidity is so draining that I actually long for a longer colder climate 😂

[@kartikeyaa4705]

Lived and worked in Canada from 2002-2007, in Toronto from 2004-2007 as an immigrant. I have Canadian citizenship, passport... Returned from Canada to my country of birth in late 2007. Those 5 years in Canada were the worst 5 years of my life, even then, when I was there in Canada - it wasn't as bad as today - today it is much worse (there is now a homeless camp five hundred meters from the block where I lived, it wasn't there then). Here, where I am now, I do not have a permanent job and a stable income, however, I live much better, much easier, with less effort, and most importantly, much healthier and peacefully than in Canada. I never even thought about going back there. Despite the false propaganda (because the Canadian state makes a lot of money from immigration - in order to legally immigrate to Canada, I had to spend 2000-3000 for administrative costs and show $10,000 in cash when entering Canada, plus a $1200 plane ticket) that Canada is one of the best places to live, my experience is that it is one of the worst places to live (and I have lived in both Germany and Cyprus and in my native country which has been devastated by Western sanctions and NATO bombing. Never in the 16 years since I left Canada have I thinking of going back there. I'm sorry, my experience was extremely negative.

[@Anita-lf6zk]

Lived in Toronto before and left in 2019 right before COVID. I was considering going back to Toronto after working overseas these few years but everyone I knew living in the city are warning me not to… it’s sad how the city has changed for the worse

[@codylittlefield7885]

I moved to Toronto in 2019 and it was wild how different it was just over a couple of years.

[@zenonbillings9008]

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[@zenonbillings9008]

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[@user-zr6pl6nb6z]

Toronto was garbage even before 2019.

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

@@user-zr6pl6nb6z It sure was, I left almost three decades ago. It was going down EVEN then.. But many arrogant Toronto people just did not want to believe it.. Now the whole counrty going in the same direction...

[@BrandonSchleifer]

I live in Toronto. I am seriously considering leaving, even though I have a job downtown. Things have gone downhill a lot in the past 4 years.

[@timphiey]

Leave while you still can ❤

[@mikestone7185]

Thats Canadian govenemnt plan! go start your life in Manitoba or PEIor SASw . Vancouver and Toronto are too over populated

[@myleshagar9722]

Drugs are destroying Canadian cities.

[@UzumakiNaruto_]

@@myleshagar9722 Crappy Liberal polices, insane amounts of immigration and allowing small but very loud and angry groups of people to dominate the decision making in this country is what's destroying Canada.

[@brooklynnewyorkinsideconst7688]

@@myleshagar9722all girls are same they want drugs and dikks

[@daveshork2797]

all major cities in north America look like this. I'm starting to thinks its by design.

[@aljay2955]

It's by design in Western Europe as well. Seems like it's designed to transform Canada, US and Western Europe into third world countries so the populations can be controlled by taking away freedom and mobility.

[@TheJlee28]

Probably as they’re trying to eliminate middle class.

[@salkoharper2908]

@@TheJlee28 Yes, the middle class have historically been the biggest issue for the elites. Middle class are educated enough to see the corruption and fight against it. Working class are dumb and uneducated, so can be easily manipulated by the media. If you annihilate the Middle class, you destroy any chance of the common people fighting against this neo-feudalism.

[@markferguson7563]

(*** Yes, indeed, Dave, it most certainly "BY DESIGN". And this is particularly true for every Engllish speaking country. And the major reason for property and rent cost being excessive in them all is due to mass-immigration programs: of which Canada and Australia are worst cases. Following is a discourse condensing the historical nuances and, indeed, the ensuing disasterous sociological impacts that allowing Muslims to migrate en masse to these destinations. Alas, the moron presenting this program is distressed about refugees being disposessed by locals. So, considering there are at LEAST 2 BILLION people on the Planet who are poor then who would you deny entry to? The dire reality is that, in Britain and France, the worst crimes are committed by Afrians born in these countries. ***) *************************************** n 1968, in the city of Birmingham, Enoch Powell, delivered his warnings that dismantling Britain’s borders, and allowing mass numbers of non-Caucasian, and non-Christians to enter would culminate with a ‘Rivers of Blood’ scenario. At that time, the percentage of Birmingham’s population that was non-white, was less than 3 percent. Now, some 55 years later, in 2024, non-whites are a slight majority of Birmingham’s population. The great preponderance of whom are also non-Christians. Conversely, at that same point in time, London’s non-white demographic was slightly higher at 5 percent. Whereas now, white-British have also been reduced to nearing minority status. Five years after Enoch Powell delivered that address in Birmingham, the novel, Camp of the Saints, by Frenchman Jean Raspail, was published. In this work, Raspail duly warned of the immense danger that would befall France, by allowing unfettered numbers of immigrants from Third World cradles (ostensibly from its former African colonies) to swarm in. However, what he also correctly predicted was with guilt-ridden/self-hating/bleeding-heart liberals would willfully facilitate culturally unassimilable interlopers from the Third World to transgress Europe’s shores. But it would be three and half decades before the dire predictions Enoch Powell espoused in 1968, would come to pass. And this cavalcade of horrors first emerged on March 11, 2004, in Madrid, when a group of Islamic fundamentalists systematically detonated 10 bombs on four trains approaching the city’s main CBD railway station, at Atocha. Those instances callously claimed the lives of 192 innocent people, and injured another 1800. Then, 16 months later in London, on July 7, 2005, another group of Islamic fundamentalists replicated the Atocha event detonating bombs on trains and buses slaughtering a total of 52 people, and injuring about 800 others. In the subsequent 16 years after the London bombings, another 288 (accruing to be 532) innocent people were slaughtered, in a Reign of Terror, across Britain and Europe, which was callously inflicted by Islamic fundamentalists. Now, in Australia, on April 15, 2024, in the Sydney suburb of Wakely (Fairfield), a 16-year-old Islamic terrorist strolled into the Assyrian Orthodox Church, of The Good Shepherd, and stabbed its bishop. This dreadful event culminated with up to 500 of its parishioners gathering outside the church to stage a very violent riot in the subsequent hours. Their sole objective was seeking to get hold of the perpetrator, and exact their revenge upon him for this atrocity. Whilst being detained by churchgoers shortly after the attack, the 16-year-old assailant can be distinctly heard saying on a video clip that he had stabbed the bishop, because he’d “insulted my prophet”. Therefore, those few words, indisputably designate that this assault was premeditated: and, therefore an act of terrorism. Yet, in spite of him saying these words, the usual suspects have emerged in the past few days downplaying affairs. Some of them (all Muslims) are querying how authorities had been so quick, and eager to call this an act of terrorism. Needless to say, it’s an absolute certainty that in the coming weeks that the ‘system’ will surreptitiously maneuver, and manipulate circumstances to cast this goon as being a mere aberration within Australia’s Islamic community. Rather, than him being reflective of a significant component of the Muslims here. To garner the reality that there’s no shortage of Muslims in Australia whose prime allegiance is to Islam, merely requires perusing photos, and video clips appearing in media coverages depicting Muslims congregating outside Mosques. Most of them will be clad in some form of traditional attire, praying to Allah. What this all amounts to is to prove there are no shortage of Muslims here in Australia (and, indeed, Britain, France, and Belgium/Holland, or Canada, and the US), who consider themselves answerable to the teachings of the Quran, before the society they’re in. In the near future, we will be constantly bombarded with the line that this 16-year-old terrorist is not representative of Muslims, which of course is correct. However, the most ominous concern is that, there needs only to be a couple of hundred fundamentalist Muslims in the country who hold extreme views to wreak havoc. Tragically, mass intakes of people from a bevy of non-Anglo/European cradles over the past 30-35 years has radically transmogrified Australia’s two largest metropolises of Sydney, and Melbourne. So much so that, within the short space of a bit more than three decades (1990), Anglo/Europeans have been reduced from being 94 percent of these cities’ populations, to now becoming the ‘collective’ minorities: at around 47 percent. To ascertain this glaring reality, merely requires travelling on any train, at any part of the day that runs through the corridor of 20 stations between Burwood/Strathfield, Granville and down to Liverpool. By doing so, you will quickly realise that people of non-Anglo/European extractions will account for at least, 80 percent of all those people you will observe, either standing on platforms or travelling in carriages. For the record, of the 400,000 net-increase of Sydney’s population in the decade up until February 2024, 280,000 of them have been immigrants (either permanent or temporary) who are sourced from non-AE, and non-Christian societies. But what’s strikingly apparent about any of the main business districts of places which have an array of different ethnocultural entities traversing the streets (such as Bankstown), is with how none of them interact with each other: let alone do they have a connection to Australia. As of Saturday morning on April 20, less than 290 hours after the attack at Wakley, there have been many media stories analysing how this heinous event could have come to fruition. Their essences range from querying if intelligence bureaus had any prior knowledge of the assailant: and, if so, then why wasn’t he intercepted earlier. Well, to be fair to law-enforcement, and intelligence entities, keeping tabs on anyone dabbling googling up any facet of extremism, is nigh on impossible to achieve. So, engaging in a blame game on this is futile. Tragically, what the media should be pondering, is the immense sociological cataclysm that Australia is sinking into. All of which is due to the insanity of successive governments from the late 1980s, rapidly drawing in millions of culturally unassimilable immigrants from a large array of non-AE ethnicities? The culmination of this madness has ultimately destroyed the host’s culture. And, moreover, with these immigrants forming culturally-insular enclaves/colonies. So, it now comes to pass all these years after Enoch Powell, and Jean Raspail, warned us of would eventuate with dismantling borders, concludes with scores of acts of vile terrorism from 2004, being perpetrated by rabid Islamic fundamentalists. But, in spite of it being patently obvious to any halfwit that, mass-non-discriminatory immigration programs have destroyed the cultures of the host-societies, politicians in Britain, Canada, NZ, and of course, Australia, are totally committed to perpetuating large scale immigration intakes.

[@tjtreinen7381]

Last time I was in toronto, 1980, it was the most beautiful, clean city I'd ever been to. I was living in New York city at the time and it was such as difference. We went to all sorts of neighborhoods and never felt uncomforatable.

[@Entername-md1ev]

Toronto’s biggest issue is that it accidentally became the largest city in Canada (Montreal was always Canadas premier city until QC tried to separate). As a result the city simply had no clue how to manage such a change in population growth, housing, city design, etc., and now it’s biting them in the behind, this crisis was years and possibly decades in the making

[@LeeZaslofsky]

No clue? What complete nonsense! Toronto is ranked the 9th most livable city in the world. Toronto is the 4th largest city in North America. I've lived here for over 50 years. It has its problems,like every big city. But it is safe, clean, and has a wonderful diversity of population that makes it a great place to live and work. You a sound like a spoiled young woman who loves to complain.

[@toddpick8007]

No its problem is the far left invalids in council who run it and the far left invalid in Ottawa whos ruining Canada.

[@V1sual3y3z]

Definitely decades. Infrastructure upgrades have been lagging behind for a long time.

[@evemarie1605]

Actually Robert Fulford wrote a book about Toronto called "Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto" (1995). Toronto boomed post-1945 due to a huge influx of Europeans and European capital fleeing from Europe due to the poverty caused by the destruction of WW2 and the European immigrants turned it into a First-World metropolis but after 1975 started a trickle of Third-World migrants who slowly degraded Toronto into a Second-World city and the Chretien Liberals expanded that into a torrent of Third-World migrants so now Toronto is becoming a Third-World city and now native-born Canadians are fleeing this brain-dead cesspit of inbred idiocy as Justin Trudeau remakes Toronto in his own ugly inner image (a real "Dorian Gray" that one!).

[@johnmorelli3775]

100% Truth. I was one of those many people migrated to Toronto from Montreal due to Quebec's flirtation with separatism & French language fanaticism.

[@margaretinsydney3856]

Born and raised in Toronto but left for a job in Sydney in 1989. Every time I go back to TO, I find it dirtier and more crowded -- and the traffic is just horrible. I'm appalled by the homelessness. When I was a resident, if homelessness existed, it was pretty invisible. The clean, friendly, safe yet buzzy city of my youth is no more.😢

[@Willverinerage]

Australia or Nova Scotia?

[@margaretinsydney3856]

@@Willverinerage 🇦🇺

[@Wooplot]

What do you think of Sydney now compared to Toronto?

[@SchlichteToven]

I heard Australia is going downhill as well. Lots of crime and soaring rent and cost of living. Someone I know lives in the Northern Territory and says there's so much crime - roving gangs of kids smashing windows of cars to steal stuff, drugs, housebreaking. The grass is always greener on the other side, but it's getting bad everywhere, and if everyone moves to the one place it isn't as bad, it will soon become terrible as well.

[@dohdoh2430]

Tend to happen when you open your borders..

[@anishkavarunkoteshwar8182]

I grew up in Toronto my whole life. It is honestly so disappointing and horrible to say that it has changed not positively! I still love this place but it is so sad to know how horrible things are.❤I hope it changes..

[@petert1692]

Go live in other cities in similar size.

[@user-oi9bg6fx5t]

Yeah grew up in Toronto, moved away at 30 to small town ontario in 2006 and I’m so lucky I did. Have many friends in the gta still and most of them are planning to leave.

[@ElinoraMilanesi]

It's everywhere in Canada tbh, things in Ottawa have gone downhill, same for Montréal, I truly hope I can move to Qatar or Kuwait in the near future.

[@anishkavarunkoteshwar8182]

@@petert1692 it’s not about the size, it holds so many memories and it’s my home honestly

[@anishkavarunkoteshwar8182]

@@ElinoraMilanesi ya we really need to bring back some things from before Covid..it’s possible

[@LovedDoxology68]

Omg! TORONTO is no longer the city I remember! I graduated from U of T in 1988.

[@prp3858]

Born, raised, educated, worked, married & started my own family in TO. We left TO & extended fam. several yrs ago. We knew living in Toronto was not sustainable. Best thing we ever did😊.

[@AlinaMcleod]

Glad you found a better place for your family!

[@JimMork]

You should tell people if there are places in Canada where a satisfying life doesn't come with a staggering price tag.

[@timphiey]

Same here ❤

[@JimMork]

@@AlinaMcleod Or if no family, yourself. TO has problems that affect people of all conditions. You grew up in a place where your parents weren't crushed by an economic juggernaut.

[@frenchmime1972]

As someone born and raised in Toronto I have seen the massive delcine, problem is most big cities are getting worse, when they finally let me leave Canada for being unclean at the end of 2022 someone who travelled a lot before the pandemic, I have noticed many cites in the US and Europe have became much more violent, tent cities and much more expensive, so more of a global problem.

[@linabanfield8658]

Where excatly in Europe? Thank you.

[@frenchmime1972]

@@linabanfield8658 Paris and London, shells of what they used to be.

[@Mikenoronha]

Violent crime in Toronto has seriously gotten out of control, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. There is a concerted effort by government and media to downplay the reality by changing how the statisticsare gathered and parsed. The mayor needs to address the issue head-on or step down.

[@jennings-gn1ct]

Born and raised in Toronto. It’s so hurtful to see how this beautiful city had changed so much last couple of years.

[@TheJlee28]

It’s getting better.

[@josephforest7605]

Immigrants that do not care and a police dept , that is not pro active .

[@TheJlee28]

@@josephforest7605 Nop? You should start political activism as I volunteer for parties regularly. Do you have real name and pic?

[@TheJlee28]

@@josephforest7605 tell TruDoped to screen them 😂

[@julieclark1369]

Lived here since 1966. It’s not “ Toronto the Good”. I’m lucky I got into the market in the 70s. I wouldn’t recommend moving here for all the reasons you say. Taxes are high, rents are high, crime and homelessness are high. Not a place I’d recommend for someone starting out to move here. I’ll stay here because I live in a lovely neighbourhood and know all my neighbours. It’s home.

[@user-vw6ti9nv7k]

Exactly. Anyone grandfathered in has it made. Anyone trying to get in, forget about it. Game is too rigged now. Move to Brandon, Manitoba and try to get a leg up.

[@JohnPKusumi]

I've lived in Canada before - twice, and it changed drastically between those two times. These days, I wouldn't touch Canada with a ten foot pole. You may remember, I was living in Lviv, Ukraine - and then the invasion happened. That pushed me out; I have moved to Croatia. I found cheap rent on a 5 bedroom apartment - in a seaside city with a Mediterranean climate - and signed a 5 year lease. By now, I am more than 1.5 years into living in Croatia. (And, Croatia developed a reputation like Sweden, for very little Covid restrictions. So I have 1.5 years living with no medical questions, no mandates, no masks, and no vaccine passports. Outside of Sweden and Croatia, the rest of Europe is less interesting, because of how they were during Covid.)

[@carefulconsumer8682]

Even Calgary is too dangerous now for my liking. it was wonderful in the 70s and 80s imo. I wonder if Banff is still nice or ruined by tourism?

[@skinnflint]

Yes protection from disease is absurd

[@rhythemsinghal8017]

whats your rent for a 5 bed ?

[@JohnPKusumi]

@@rhythemsinghal8017 €1000 unfurnished. If it was furnished, this landlord could get €1350 or 1400.

[@cliffchoi1959]

Croatia is now facing a massive housing boom. Rents are not going to be cheap. But at least the worst city for crime (Split) is miles safer than Toronto.

[@tomiesto240]

I left Vancouver in 2014, just returned this past February. A lot of my observations about "what happened here" are similar to yours in Toronto. When I initially left, I knew things were going to go downhill... but I'm surprised at how much.

[@joeynova9896]

it's a shit hole

[@nicktankard1244]

yeah it's very similar. I moved to Vancouver 2 years ago

[@squeekyclean1644]

VAncouver will always be more gorgeous than Toronto. The reason I think vancouver is still better is that it keeps the peasant class out, so only the affluent live in Vancouver. Yes crime rate has gone high especially places like Surrey. But that's all related to people voting in soft on crime politicians. Its a fine line, if you vote in conservatives, then the greenery will disapear, but crime will decrease since they will have no mercy for crime. But if you vote in liberals, greenery will stay, but crime rates and drug abuse will sky rocket since their whole mantra is "live like hippies". The best solution is Deport everyone and live like hippies for those remaining. If you want to really get technical, one of the best cities with low crime rate. Gorgeous women. And the patriarchy is respected. Is : Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Yup! I'm not kidding. Of course theres a catch: 1. You need to marry Russian to be let in 2. You need foreign job to keep so you can live like the oligarch with a simple 100k job. Many western men are resorting second best option which is relocating to Ukraine, Thailand and PHillipines. They've given up with western culture, yet maintaining the remote job six figures.

[@nicktankard1244]

@@squeekyclean1644 are you kidding? I am from Moscow and I was able to escape that shithole 5 years ago. Yes patriarchy is respected there but it’s a police state. Even before the war started it was a miserable place to live.

[@squeekyclean1644]

@@nicktankard1244 I need to add a big "disclaimer" you need western money to live in Saint Petersburg and Moscow in comfort. It's a hell hole for anyone living in poverty, yes. That's why most of the slavic girls I talk to are shocked I want to buy a place there. Meanwhile I have a condo in downtown vancouver, and they're flabergasted that I'm bored of it and want to sell it because of the woke brigade and blue haired feminists roaming the streets of Vancouver. I'll take a traditional slavic village peasant farm woman anyday, than a 30yr old "I don't need no man" cat lady from the west. I guess I must be viewing the world throw coloured lenses "everything is greener on the other side". The other places I want to visit is Scandinavia in the country side where blondes roam the earth [not the hell hole of stockholm which looks like afganistan now a days]. Other places would be Japan, and pretty much anywhere really that embraces traditionalism. Did you see the trend "men think about the roman empire" - that describes majority of executives males who wish we could restore traditionalism. But we just keep playing the rat race grind until we can escape it [which i'm trying to do by moving to a third world country] - ohh the irony. Minorities are trying to move to the west. While affluent men are trying to move to their country.

[@Genevieve8002]

First visited Toronto in late 2019, it was my first time in Canada - loved it!! Went for a family wedding, the taste of Toronto that I got during that trip, left a really positive impression on me - the space, it was clean, the quality of life looked idyllic. Then the global pandemic happened, I always kept up with the news of what was happening in Toronto and have noticed how it has changed. The crime seemed to just increase from out of nowhere, housing costs increased. My relatives and I keep in touch and they have told me how Toronto has changed.

[@PascalRascal]

the shots of the tent city in allan gardens park are heartbreaking. I lived in toronto for a few months back in 2018, and that was my favourite place to hang out. I visited again for the first time in 5 years this summer and decided to go on a walk there. i was shocked to see how drastically it had changed.

[@chairforce0ne]

Lack of accountability from city leadership is heartbreaking

[@TheJlee28]

Free drugs fed gives out.

[@joehogan8234]

​@@TheJlee28They enable drug addicts.

[@TheJlee28]

@@joehogan8234 yup and that’s why Canada has deteriorated. But Toronto and Vancouver are getting cleaned up. They’ve got the funding and social workers are everywhere convincing homeless people to get help. It’ll soon get back to normal.

[@TheJlee28]

@@chairforce0ne Tory gone

[@donbernie9346]

Watching this from Mexico City, now Mexico City looks so advanced, impressed by how quickly can things change in a few years.

[@JamesBooond]

Don't recommend your city to foreigners, they'll flock and move there - which destroys the rent and residents in your city.

[@donbernie9346]

@@JamesBooond which is already happening, rent went to the sky

[@R-oc4tr]

​@@JamesBooondthey already found out about Mexico City and the rents are actually going up.

[@valerievancouver365]

​@@JamesBooondthey already moved thousands 😮😮😮

[@brooklynnewyorkinsideconst7688]

@@JamesBooondamigas over there

[@mafiakickproductions]

I grew up in Toronto from 1999-2014 it has definitely changed so much, everyday I think about moving back down but it’s not a good place to raise kids anymore.

[@markferguson7563]

In 1968, in the city of Birmingham, Enoch Powell, delivered his warnings that dismantling Britain’s borders, and allowing mass numbers of non-Caucasian, and non-Christians to enter would culminate with a ‘Rivers of Blood’ scenario. At that time, the percentage of Birmingham’s population that was non-white, was less than 3 percent. Now, some 55 years later, in 2024, non-whites are a slight majority of Birmingham’s population. The great preponderance of whom are also non-Christians. Conversely, at that same point in time, London’s non-white demographic was slightly higher at 5 percent. Whereas now, white-British have also been reduced to nearing minority status. Five years after Enoch Powell delivered that address in Birmingham, the novel, Camp of the Saints, by Frenchman Jean Raspail, was published. In this work, Raspail duly warned of the immense danger that would befall France, by allowing unfettered numbers of immigrants from Third World cradles (ostensibly from its former African colonies) to swarm in. However, what he also correctly predicted was with guilt-ridden/self-hating/bleeding-heart liberals would willfully facilitate culturally unassimilable interlopers from the Third World to transgress Europe’s shores. But it would be three and half decades before the dire predictions Enoch Powell espoused in 1968, would come to pass. And this cavalcade of horrors first emerged on March 11, 2004, in Madrid, when a group of Islamic fundamentalists systematically detonated 10 bombs on four trains approaching the city’s main CBD railway station, at Atocha. Those instances callously claimed the lives of 192 innocent people, and injured another 1800. Then, 16 months later in London, on July 7, 2005, another group of Islamic fundamentalists replicated the Atocha event detonating bombs on trains and buses slaughtering a total of 52 people, and injuring about 800 others. In the subsequent 16 years after the London bombings, another 288 (accruing to be 532) innocent people were slaughtered, in a Reign of Terror, across Britain and Europe, which was callously inflicted by Islamic fundamentalists. Now, in Australia, on April 15, 2024, in the Sydney suburb of Wakely (Fairfield), a 16-year-old Islamic terrorist strolled into the Assyrian Orthodox Church, of The Good Shepherd, and stabbed its bishop. This dreadful event culminated with up to 500 of its parishioners gathering outside the church to stage a very violent riot in the subsequent hours. Their sole objective was seeking to get hold of the perpetrator, and exact their revenge upon him for this atrocity. Whilst being detained by churchgoers shortly after the attack, the 16-year-old assailant can be distinctly heard saying on a video clip that he had stabbed the bishop, because he’d “insulted my prophet”. Therefore, those few words, indisputably designate that this assault was premeditated: and, therefore an act of terrorism. Yet, in spite of him saying these words, the usual suspects have emerged in the past few days downplaying affairs. Some of them (all Muslims) are querying how authorities had been so quick, and eager to call this an act of terrorism. Needless to say, it’s an absolute certainty that in the coming weeks that the ‘system’ will surreptitiously maneuver, and manipulate circumstances to cast this goon as being a mere aberration within Australia’s Islamic community. Rather, than him being reflective of a significant component of the Muslims here. To garner the reality that there’s no shortage of Muslims in Australia whose prime allegiance is to Islam, merely requires perusing photos, and video clips appearing in media coverages depicting Muslims congregating outside Mosques. Most of them will be clad in some form of traditional attire, praying to Allah. What this all amounts to is to prove there are no shortage of Muslims here in Australia (and, indeed, Britain, France, and Belgium/Holland, or Canada, and the US), who consider themselves answerable to the teachings of the Quran, before the society they’re in. In the near future, we will be constantly bombarded with the line that this 16-year-old terrorist is not representative of Muslims, which of course is correct. However, the most ominous concern is that, there needs only to be a couple of hundred fundamentalist Muslims in the country who hold extreme views to wreak havoc. Tragically, mass intakes of people from a bevy of non-Anglo/European cradles over the past 30-35 years has radically transmogrified Australia’s two largest metropolises of Sydney, and Melbourne. So much so that, within the short space of a bit more than three decades (1990), Anglo/Europeans have been reduced from being 94 percent of these cities’ populations, to now becoming the ‘collective’ minorities: at around 47 percent. To ascertain this glaring reality, merely requires travelling on any train, at any part of the day that runs through the corridor of 20 stations between Burwood/Strathfield, Granville and down to Liverpool. By doing so, you will quickly realise that people of non-Anglo/European extractions will account for at least, 80 percent of all those people you will observe, either standing on platforms or travelling in carriages. For the record, of the 400,000 net-increase of Sydney’s population in the decade up until February 2024, 280,000 of them have been immigrants (either permanent or temporary) who are sourced from non-AE, and non-Christian societies. But what’s strikingly apparent about any of the main business districts of places which have an array of different ethnocultural entities traversing the streets (such as Bankstown), is with how none of them interact with each other: let alone do they have a connection to Australia. As of Saturday morning on April 20, less than 290 hours after the attack at Wakley, there have been many media stories analysing how this heinous event could have come to fruition. Their essences range from querying if intelligence bureaus had any prior knowledge of the assailant: and, if so, then why wasn’t he intercepted earlier. Well, to be fair to law-enforcement, and intelligence entities, keeping tabs on anyone dabbling googling up any facet of extremism, is nigh on impossible to achieve. So, engaging in a blame game on this is futile. Tragically, what the media should be pondering, is the immense sociological cataclysm that Australia is sinking into. All of which is due to the insanity of successive governments from the late 1980s, rapidly drawing in millions of culturally unassimilable immigrants from a large array of non-AE ethnicities? The culmination of this madness has ultimately destroyed the host’s culture. And, moreover, with these immigrants forming culturally-insular enclaves/colonies. So, it now comes to pass all these years after Enoch Powell, and Jean Raspail, warned us of would eventuate with dismantling borders, concludes with scores of acts of vile terrorism from 2004, being perpetrated by rabid Islamic fundamentalists. But, in spite of it being patently obvious to any halfwit that, mass-non-discriminatory immigration programs have destroyed the cultures of the host-societies, politicians in Britain, Canada, NZ, and of course, Australia, are totally committed to perpetuating large scale immigration intakes.

[@Moondustsmellsfunny]

@@markferguson7563 do you feel better after going on that racist rant???

[@markferguson7563]

@@Moondustsmellsfunny I state the facts about the sociological disaster that interlopers from the Third World have brought to bear upon Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, and Scandinavia. So if that's racism then tough luck.

[@valentinivanov3389]

Heartbreaking. Unfortunately it is the same all over the world. Apartments in my country are up 3 times. Food is up double. It is post covid money printing. Rich people got super rich , middle class lost ground and ordinary people are fight for survival literally. And with AI it will only get worse. Capitalism is failing. And I dont think we have anything to replace it with.

[@Mr.Who3]

Born and raised in Toronto, and a university student. Definitely feeling the choke of the city, many of my friends are greatly considering moving to America or abroad after university. Hopefully the city can back on track, this city is awesome.

[@davidellis5141]

Sadly , so many small businesses closed during covid & many people lost housing & once on the street desperation takes over & crime increases. All major cities in the world are enduring this wave of homelessness & it's negative results. Very sad.

[@mrkevintetz]

All major cities - in nations and regions that enacted severe lockdowns and reckless quantitative easing (money printing) - are enduring this.. The federal Canadian bail reforms that the current government enacted have also really hurt major centers in Canada.

[@JimMork]

@@mrkevintetz They don't want bread lines like the Depression. I don't buy that is the major problem. Two values, entertainment and wealth are what will undermine any place where they rise to the top. All those upscale stores just blazon "money is king". Isn't the first time in history that a city was ruined in that way.

[@mrkevintetz]

confounding factor's for sure @@JimMork

[@njam101]

@@mrkevintetz Which wealthy countries didn't have those policies?

[@JimMork]

@@njam101 Norway? And their infections were way less than other countries. My fellow ethnics just dislike crowding same as I do.

[@martinphillips7221]

It's not only Canada ,the world is dying before our eyes

[@jimjones7912]

Excelent video! Your honest assignment is refreshing! Your beauty is stunning and appreciated. I've followed you for awhile, i always admire your courage willingness to be honest! Thank you❤

[@Pimpslapp]

I pleasure myself to your image and there's nothing you can do about it 🤔

[@OldCanadianguy953]

I was born in Toronto. In the 1980s things started changing to arrive at what you see today.

[@TheJlee28]

Cos u r old 😂😂😂

[@jackalicous123]

Winnipegger here who lived in Toronto 2014-2020, moved back to Wpg 2020-2021 and is now back in Toronto. First and foremost, your comments on crime are inconsistent with the data and blown out of proportion. I suggest viewers take a look at StatsCan’s crime severity index which confirms that Ontario is the safest province or territory in Canada (safer than PEI lol). There are also scores for cities and Toronto is safer than almost every other Canadian city, safer than even Ottawa or Calgary, twice as safe as Vancouver, nearly three times safer than Winnipeg. If we start comparing to US cities, it would be even more shocking. Suffice to say, Toronto is not only safe, but it’s the safest major city in Canada and one of the safest major cities on earth. The homelessness crisis has certainly gotten a lot worse, sadly. As has the cost of living, but you get what you pay for. Having travelled to 35 countries (doesn’t mean I’m an expert, but I have some experiences in other places), I respectfully disagree and think Toronto is one of the greatest cities. It’s one of the greenest cities in this continent, safe, on the lake, super close to other major cities, great infrastructure (relative to Canadian cities anyway), it’s beautiful and there’s a ton to do, not to mention the diversity. Don’t be turned off by this, if you can afford it, it’s one of the best places you could live on this planet.

[@AlinaMcleod]

It’s ‘safer’ because it has the highest population in Canada so yes, statistically you could say your chances of having something serious happen are low. But at the same time there are much more serious crimes happening every single day compared to somewhere like PEI or SK. And emphasis on the random crimes that have been prominent in Toronto over the last 5 years. This was not something that was regularly happening a decade ago. It’s a great city in many ways, I still enjoy it and feel comfortable here but personally for the price that is costs to live there, it’s not nice enough. For $2500 for a one bedroom I would expect to live in a city that is much better managed. Cities like Tokyo and Singapore are perfect examples of first world countries that are safe, clean and prosperous.

[@jackalicous123]

Fair point, Alina, I like your videos and you’re of course so right that Toronto could be better and that it is overpriced. I also agree it, like every other city, has gotten worse in this regard. That said, you’re still wrong about the safety part. There are 2.5x more murders in Saskatoon than Toronto. Violent (and all types) crime is so much worse in Manitoba, Sask and Alberta. That is just a fact. You are far more likely to be involved in a violent crime in Saskatoon, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, etc. There is no other way to look at it or measure it than occurrences vs number of people. That was my only point. It’s expensive, not everyone will want to move here, it’s gotten worse, all fair points. But you gotta admit it’s safer than pretty much every other Canadian city and give flowers where flowers are due. And I’m fine with Toronto being in a class with Tokyo and Singapore haha, I agree with you there.

[@mard9802]

@@jackalicous123 I have lived in other countries and have travelled a fair bit. And I agree with your assessment of Toronto. I don't complain as much as others because I have seen how some people live in this world. When I think about that I feel grateful to be here in TO,

[@revolutionaryhealing9992]

@@jackalicous123 There is much more crime in those other cities because of the Indigenous reserves. There are very few aboriginals in Toronto as compared with western Canada, and they also account for the majority of crimes in Vancouver.

[@BerlinApril]

It looks like that only people from India can get all jobs as security, shop assistants, bank tellers in Toronto. My point is that people with other backgrounds have been fired or had no chance to get these positions because of the kind of corruption/ networking when 1 person brings only his friends or family members

[@chatguy629]

Its because they can fake any resume, any degree. Lying is like their second nature. Include other countries in same region too

[@jameswilliams3304]

Yep, same in the US IT industry.

[@Teresaisall]

But apparently that’s not racism.

[@alarriag1]

Let’s not circle the obvious here. These are the major problems in Canada that are greatly amplified and visible in the bigger metro areas: - Loss of economic opportunity due to the disastrous Liberal government policies of Justin Trudeau, with all the known bad social consequences. - Out of control immigration. Impossible for a country to absorb that many immigrants in a short period of time to make them productive and pay into the system. -Rampant and oppressive woke culture. If you disagree with it, you’re labeled anything from racist to transphobic. -Permissive liberal policies with drug abuse and mental illnesses. -Spineless Conservative politicians. This is changing, but boy is it taking long. -Canadian complacency and self-imposed politeness. The worst traits we have as a country. We basically don’t react to bad situations until the shit hits the fan. I’m hopeful for this country, but we still need to fall further down to do the changes we need to do.

[@jazzyethan]

I grew up in downtown Toronto. I left around the time you had come and it was wonderful and I missed it so much. I absolutely cannot believe what it has become. It's not the same at all. It just feels like a bunch of people that hate each other and everything around it. Great Video! Look forward to more content from you.

[@Gee-xb7rt]

Big American cities have gotten overpriced and really generic, not much reason to live inner city anymore.

[@markferguson7563]

In 1968, in the city of Birmingham, Enoch Powell, delivered his warnings that dismantling Britain’s borders, and allowing mass numbers of non-Caucasian, and non-Christians to enter would culminate with a ‘Rivers of Blood’ scenario. At that time, the percentage of Birmingham’s population that was non-white, was less than 3 percent. Now, some 55 years later, in 2024, non-whites are a slight majority of Birmingham’s population. The great preponderance of whom are also non-Christians. Conversely, at that same point in time, London’s non-white demographic was slightly higher at 5 percent. Whereas now, white-British have also been reduced to nearing minority status. Five years after Enoch Powell delivered that address in Birmingham, the novel, Camp of the Saints, by Frenchman Jean Raspail, was published. In this work, Raspail duly warned of the immense danger that would befall France, by allowing unfettered numbers of immigrants from Third World cradles (ostensibly from its former African colonies) to swarm in. However, what he also correctly predicted was with guilt-ridden/self-hating/bleeding-heart liberals would willfully facilitate culturally unassimilable interlopers from the Third World to transgress Europe’s shores. But it would be three and half decades before the dire predictions Enoch Powell espoused in 1968, would come to pass. And this cavalcade of horrors first emerged on March 11, 2004, in Madrid, when a group of Islamic fundamentalists systematically detonated 10 bombs on four trains approaching the city’s main CBD railway station, at Atocha. Those instances callously claimed the lives of 192 innocent people, and injured another 1800. Then, 16 months later in London, on July 7, 2005, another group of Islamic fundamentalists replicated the Atocha event detonating bombs on trains and buses slaughtering a total of 52 people, and injuring about 800 others. In the subsequent 16 years after the London bombings, another 288 (accruing to be 532) innocent people were slaughtered, in a Reign of Terror, across Britain and Europe, which was callously inflicted by Islamic fundamentalists. Now, in Australia, on April 15, 2024, in the Sydney suburb of Wakely (Fairfield), a 16-year-old Islamic terrorist strolled into the Assyrian Orthodox Church, of The Good Shepherd, and stabbed its bishop. This dreadful event culminated with up to 500 of its parishioners gathering outside the church to stage a very violent riot in the subsequent hours. Their sole objective was seeking to get hold of the perpetrator, and exact their revenge upon him for this atrocity. Whilst being detained by churchgoers shortly after the attack, the 16-year-old assailant can be distinctly heard saying on a video clip that he had stabbed the bishop, because he’d “insulted my prophet”. Therefore, those few words, indisputably designate that this assault was premeditated: and, therefore an act of terrorism. Yet, in spite of him saying these words, the usual suspects have emerged in the past few days downplaying affairs. Some of them (all Muslims) are querying how authorities had been so quick, and eager to call this an act of terrorism. Needless to say, it’s an absolute certainty that in the coming weeks that the ‘system’ will surreptitiously maneuver, and manipulate circumstances to cast this goon as being a mere aberration within Australia’s Islamic community. Rather, than him being reflective of a significant component of the Muslims here. To garner the reality that there’s no shortage of Muslims in Australia whose prime allegiance is to Islam, merely requires perusing photos, and video clips appearing in media coverages depicting Muslims congregating outside Mosques. Most of them will be clad in some form of traditional attire, praying to Allah. What this all amounts to is to prove there are no shortage of Muslims here in Australia (and, indeed, Britain, France, and Belgium/Holland, or Canada, and the US), who consider themselves answerable to the teachings of the Quran, before the society they’re in. In the near future, we will be constantly bombarded with the line that this 16-year-old terrorist is not representative of Muslims, which of course is correct. However, the most ominous concern is that, there needs only to be a couple of hundred fundamentalist Muslims in the country who hold extreme views to wreak havoc. Tragically, mass intakes of people from a bevy of non-Anglo/European cradles over the past 30-35 years has radically transmogrified Australia’s two largest metropolises of Sydney, and Melbourne. So much so that, within the short space of a bit more than three decades (1990), Anglo/Europeans have been reduced from being 94 percent of these cities’ populations, to now becoming the ‘collective’ minorities: at around 47 percent. To ascertain this glaring reality, merely requires travelling on any train, at any part of the day that runs through the corridor of 20 stations between Burwood/Strathfield, Granville and down to Liverpool. By doing so, you will quickly realise that people of non-Anglo/European extractions will account for at least, 80 percent of all those people you will observe, either standing on platforms or travelling in carriages. For the record, of the 400,000 net-increase of Sydney’s population in the decade up until February 2024, 280,000 of them have been immigrants (either permanent or temporary) who are sourced from non-AE, and non-Christian societies. But what’s strikingly apparent about any of the main business districts of places which have an array of different ethnocultural entities traversing the streets (such as Bankstown), is with how none of them interact with each other: let alone do they have a connection to Australia. As of Saturday morning on April 20, less than 290 hours after the attack at Wakley, there have been many media stories analysing how this heinous event could have come to fruition. Their essences range from querying if intelligence bureaus had any prior knowledge of the assailant: and, if so, then why wasn’t he intercepted earlier. Well, to be fair to law-enforcement, and intelligence entities, keeping tabs on anyone dabbling googling up any facet of extremism, is nigh on impossible to achieve. So, engaging in a blame game on this is futile. Tragically, what the media should be pondering, is the immense sociological cataclysm that Australia is sinking into. All of which is due to the insanity of successive governments from the late 1980s, rapidly drawing in millions of culturally unassimilable immigrants from a large array of non-AE ethnicities? The culmination of this madness has ultimately destroyed the host’s culture. And, moreover, with these immigrants forming culturally-insular enclaves/colonies. So, it now comes to pass all these years after Enoch Powell, and Jean Raspail, warned us of would eventuate with dismantling borders, concludes with scores of acts of vile terrorism from 2004, being perpetrated by rabid Islamic fundamentalists. But, in spite of it being patently obvious to any halfwit that, mass-non-discriminatory immigration programs have destroyed the cultures of the host-societies, politicians in Britain, Canada, NZ, and of course, Australia, are totally committed to perpetuating large scale immigration intakes.

[@FTrainProductions]

New York is facing the same thing (been living here since I was born). It's a shame to see Toronto go down a similar path. Hopefully both cities improve with time.

[@user-84-rg9-8n2]

Mayor Eric Adams is certainly improving things.

[@FTrainProductions]

@@user-84-rg9-8n2 that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it.

[@uzin0s256]

NY is completely fine. Was there last month

[@duncansmith7562]

they won't, unless immigration policy is radically overhauled.

[@vkrgfan]

New York has been facing this for decades.

[@JF-qu5zy]

This recent crime wave on the TTC is certainly unnerving and felt like something from inner city America in the 70s and 80s - most certainly very un-Canadian-like but unfortunately very real.

[@jerrymiller9039]

It is no longer un-Canadian if it ever was.

[@JimMork]

I wonder where responsibility lies for TTC safety.

[@jerrymiller9039]

@@JimMork I would agree with Obama that elections have consequences

[@JimMork]

@@jerrymiller9039 Baffling to me why anyone would emulate America. America is now San Francisco and LA. SF where I once lived is a tragic failure, in my view of things.

[@jerrymiller9039]

@@JimMork la and San Fran are two small spots in America. Saying they represent America is like saying a current Ukrainian battlefield represents Europe

[@user-fb8ze7mr7d]

Lived there for 2 years and regretted since the first day. Now back in Sydney Australia and it's just so much better.

[@anandchowdary6980]

I really hope this difficult phase of Toronto changes to something good for everyone.

[@gmc9451]

It won't.

[@LisaG442]

Not with a liberal in charge

[@TheFrederik1967]

Hope. Is when one doesn’t dare to think. Toronto will sink. It will go down. Multiculturalism will fight between, recent example, Jews and Muslims. It will continue. On top of it, building owners will walk out, leaving their properties. Because rent no longer covers taxes, repairs and similar. Check out Weimar Republic. Then, it will be cut off. Toronto will cut themselves off. If you don’t pay, food will not be delivered, gas will not delivered. And more. Total collapse. The future? Cities of more then 50k people not needed. That’s the reset, climate change and the rest.

[@eduardobenassi3072]

Weak, cocooned idiots have ruled for a couple of decades and everything's already falling apart. No it won't get any better. No one wants to gut the pork, break the chicken's neck. Being stupid and tribal is the norm, AKA progressive, green, virtuous and whatnot.

[@Elke_KB]

I grew up in Toronto and it is horrible now. My sister works downtown. While everyone was working from home, the homeless, mentally ill and drug addicted took over the core. No one feels safe taking public transit into the city, so many businesses still have to deal with employees working from home half the week. "Safe" injection sites do nothing to treat addiction, they attract crime, like the murder of that woman. Now Olivia Chow has finally got her claws on the mayors seat, expect Toronto to become a socialist nightmare.

[@gregmoessner3104]

Lady Chow has got your back! Lol

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Well, her "free market" predecessors didn't do a very good job of governing did they...

[@JimMork]

All those 100 story condominiums are the capitalist nightmare. A sign of how the rich got rich and will get richer. And my confident view of the addicts is that that is another business for profit. Never seen any actual socialist saying the working class deserve more addictive drugs. Chinese corruption is shipping drugs to North America as just one way of destroying enemy countries. When Beijing streets are littered with useless drug addicts, then I'll fault socialism for drug addiction.

[@MsEricao]

Its funny you say this considering it has been "non-socialists" running the city for over 10 years.

[@allangroat6406]

You voted and now you have what you wanted

[@sumostorms]

Elections can have very nasty consequences! Toronto is just(in) a prime example of bad governance. I just wait for any politician to explain why diversity always comes with higher crime rates and less affordability. Doesn’t need to be.

[@zootjava431]

Not one of them has the parts to ever whisper the reason as to the obvious.

[@JimMork]

And how about the Ontario government. Is Ontario doing much better? I do think some city governments are ruled dysfunctionally, but if your province is stymiiing what you can do, things won't improve. Then the question I'd pose: Suppose both the province AND Toronto were ruled by the same party, what expected improvements would happen?

[@HireMyTimestampTalent]

00:07 Toronto has changed and not for the better. 01:46 Toronto's entertainment industry did not live up to expectations for the speaker. 03:42 BetterHelp is an online therapy platform that offers accessible and affordable therapy sessions. 05:23 Rental prices in Toronto have significantly increased and are now unaffordable. 07:09 Increasing crime and homelessness are major concerns in Toronto. 09:01 Toronto has high rent and a significant gap between minimum wage and rental wage, causing housing affordability issues and homelessness. 10:58 Toronto has become challenging to live in and is not recommended as a home base. 12:58 Toronto's housing crisis and high prices make it difficult to recommend living there.

[@leenic]

I lived here since 1961. The biggest negative changes have occurred over the last 25 years. Yes a million condos bringing tons of new city tax revenue (wasted) but so unreasonably expensive, as so many new immigrants naturally flock to Toronto and need housing. Which means traffic sucks, too many downtown roads closed, unused bike lanes steal car travel lanes. Toronto is generally dirtier and meaner than in 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s. People are less friendly, less polite, less caring, and reside in self contained cultural enclaves. I used to ride the subway daily till 1990s, but i was shocked by my recent ride, with delays, so overcrowded slow service and bummy looking passengers now, scary. Quite a negative unwelcoming transformation!😢

[@bobhotz]

I left Canada for South Florida in '95. I did it for various reasons, the major one being that I got tired of the long winters and overcast days. I love Canada and visit often but for my lifestyle and goals it wasn't a good fit for me. I immigrated to the U.S. legally and it took a lot of time and money to get my citizenship but it was worth it. No city or country is perfect but some will be better for you than others.

[@emallace447]

My dream is to do what you did. Congratulations on making it work! Toronto is simply in decline and I don't see it as a fulfilling place anymore.

[@ninjaweretiger4273]

Know not for everyone. I’m from Alberta. I refuse to go elsewhere personally. Especially the USA. Friends died there… Mass shootings…

[@natulia]

Life in America also changes and unfortunately it goes down the hill and it goes fast. Politicians destroying the country.

[@zenwilds2911]

Here I am in the US wishing I could immigrate to EU. US surprise bills for medical services would destroy anyone financially. Having insurance doesn't help because insurance doesn't cover every medical need. The moment you need a specialist, you're paying out of pocket. People who say they like the US have been lucky to not have a medical need that isn'tcovered by their insurance. And you never know if it's going to happen to you.

[@emallace447]

@@zenwilds2911 I have a high paying job, investments, and medical insurance through my work so I am not concerned. I think people in my position can live a very good life in the States. Much better than in Toronto.

[@bronney]

The scary part isn't that things change. They all change. What's scary is we're experiencing accelerated changes on everything, ALL AT ONCE. You can name anything about TO and it's changed. From the way people drive, the inescapable pot smelly blowing inside restaurants indoor seating area, the rent, car insurance, groceries prices, ttc violence, jobs or as you said the availability of "modelling jobs". Any jobs tbh. The failure of wages to catch up to anything, not just housing but gas, food, diapers. That's what's scary. It's not just housing it's everything, quickly. Too quick for anyone to do anything so the ones that can do something just quits as they're already in a good position to. Ain't no one's gonna risk their necks when they're already afloat.

[@Mikenoronha]

Violent crime in Toronto has seriously gotten out of control, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. There is a concerted effort by government and media to downplay the reality by changing how the statisticsare gathered and parsed. The mayor needs to address the issue head-on or step down.

[@suzysizzle]

As a Torontonian born and raised here it’s had a couple shifts in feel over the past decades. Around the mid 90s, there was an increase of gun violence, crime and theft in the city which caused my family to move out to the burbs. I moved back during the 2009 recession for higher education at one of the institutions downtown. At that time, there wasn’t much violence at all. We went out til the wee hours of the morning from Fashion district (Queen and Richmond) to Honest Eds (Bathurst and Bloor), to Yonge and Dundas square. There were still some homeless people then, but fast forward to now, it’s gotten aggressive. Instead of the homeless people keeping in their camps, but now, they have been displaced, are angry, mental health issues are rampant and incidents can happen anywhere. I think we have the right mayor in place now to make some positive changes for the social issues in the city and I am optimistic that we can get it cleaned up over time. For now though, I agree with the sentiment, come for a visit, but maybe skip out on living here until the social issues get sorted. You always have to keep an eye on the back of your head these days.

[@dropsofwater7655]

Hi Alina, thank you for sharing. It’s sad what is happening and I love Toronto as well! Where could we go to as Canadians abroad? You mentioned this towards the end of the video.

[@AlinaMcleod]

My personal favourites are countries in Eastern Europe and South East Asia! I’m currently in Thailand and it’s very popular with young professionals and retirees from all over the world. Vietnam and Malaysia are also great options if you want more development.

[@user-dr6ov3sk8b]

Been living here in Toronto for 18 years now. The past 5 years has gone to shit. Nowhere to shop, everywhere is run down and graffiti on on every other wall. SO much mental illness and no one is getting help. I'm legit terrified to walk anywhere right now, I do, because I have to live but it's a constant anxiety and awareness you sort of get used to feeling. I don't see an end in sight but our rent is $2000 for a 2 bedroom close to downtown so we're kind of stuck in that price. To move anywhere else, even small towns, would be more expensive. It makes me depressed and helpless to see so many young people waiting in line for food banks and living in tents. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING??? There's always this feeling of "anyone could be next" unless you're rich or living off of a trust fund. I work for my money and that means zero these days.

[@jakecarroll5]

Truly depressing. Toronto 2014 I remember celebrating about how blessed the city was. A decade later she's not the same and its sad to see.

[@OfficialGabrielized]

And Indians have took the whole entire place😭😭😭😭😢 Canada lost its culture

[@markp448]

Toronto was as one of favorite memories and experiences many years ago. The struggles and changes have evolved into desperation. 🙏

[@JimMork]

I had a superficial fascination for TO. It was the huge South Asian representation. When I scratched the surface, I found myself less fascinated. I just don't like bigness.

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

go look at russia, mexico and brazil. you will find you have it good compare to those countries. when russian economy callapses its basically gonna be a nation of prostitutes like 1990 ussr.

[@markferguson7563]

At the 10 minute and 30 second point in this clip Alina gets around to highlighting how refugees are sleeping on the streets. And also, how international students can’t find accommodation and, indeed, with rents being affordable. One young woman, seethes telling is that she is “ashamed and discussed” about the plights of (as it is demonstrated by the video) are all black Africans. Well, what a total insanity it is that, we have this mid-20-year-old bleeding-heart demanding that more be done to help refugees when her fellow-Canadians are dispossessed in their own country. So, I wonder how many of these African refugees she has arranged to stay at her own, of some of her relatives’ abodes. But, considering there would EASILY be 2 billion featureless bipeds traipsing the planet residing in the Third World who reside in dire economic, and sociological quagmires, and would UPROOT themselves in a moment to go a western country to get free housing and welfare means it wouldn’t take long to transform these places they lob in, to be turned into Third World shitholes. In Britain (overwhelmingly England) over 80 percent of robberies, and knife crimes are carried out by black African youths who are mainly the offspring of asylum seekers from Africa. In France, Africa youths are also a huge part of their social problems. And it’s all manifestly due to the fact that, Africans are overtly devoid of the capacity to study really hard - like Chinese or Indians - to improve their lots. Hence, they are (as the fellow in the reddish colour shirt bemoans) looking for handouts. As for international students: they (and not just in Canada) are a major reason why there is a housing crisis and, moreover, why rents are excessive. International students in Canada, Australia, Holland and NZ, are in plague proportions and are a HUGE problem: well, except for the people running education institutions, and employers who exploit them for low wages.

[@BloggerMusicMan]

I've lived in and around Toronto for a lot of my life and unfortunately I agree with you, but more particularly for the cost of living, which has truly become ridiculous. Toronto has seen an uptick in crime in recent years, but it's still safe even by the standards of other Canadian cities, as Toronto generally has been. The crime is not in itself a reason to avoid Toronto.

[@patrickraymaker5325]

Toronto has changed so much that it’s been traumatizing enough to insert an ad for therapy 03:42 in. So if therapy doesn’t work, my choices are to: A) Move to Calgary. B) Move to U.S. C) Live in a tent. D) Jump off CN Tower Answer is A-Move to Calgary.

[@haute03]

This is really sad to hear and, unfortunately, is happening in many cities all over (DC, NY, SF, LDN, SYD, etc.). The pandemic, inflation, and the cost of living crisis are all significant contributors to the rise in homelessness and even violence that we're seeing.

[@vcullenization]

Capitalism is the root cause of all of it

[@StrivingMen]

Many of the crime in these cities are due to the liberal policies followed by the progressives and the left who are the one who control big cities. In SF NYC for instance the no bail has givien free ride to criminals who now feels empowered. We don’t have those issues in Miami.

[@coolioso808]

Money is the root of the problem. It is not the love of money or greed, it is the mere presence of money that is the major barrier to human peace, abundance, prosperity and sustainability. Well summed up in this video "A Viable Society" by Peter Joseph. There is a reason people all over the world are not happy with the way the world is going. We need system change or else things will just continue to get worse.

[@StrivingMen]

@@coolioso808 I disagree. There is no problem with money. Money has always existed. Previous generation always had money present. What is not working is the glorification of money. Is greed, is people actitudes towards money and what money represents. We need to stop blaming material stuff for social evils. Guns aren’t the problems, Americans has always being born and raise and cohexisted with firearms. Yet, previous generations didn’t struggle with people going into schools and killing innocent lives. Racism always existed. Statues were not the culprits but people. Again, we need to stop blaming stuff , material stuff for our new self destructive patterns and evils. The system works fine for those why are willing to play by the rules and make responsible decisions.

[@coolioso808]

@@StrivingMen Respectfully, I don't think you've really thought this through or done more independent research on it. What are your sources of information bringing you to such conclusions? I can tell you some of mine include Peter Joseph, Michael Tellinger, Abby Martin, Gabor Mate, Richard Wilkinson, Zachary Marlow, Matthew Holten, David Graeber and Lee Camp. They all have easy to find sources online, on KZbin and books. You are free to check their stuff out then disagree with them if you have alternative evidence to the contrary. Money has not always existed. Over 90% of all human history we existed without money, markets and economic classes. Racism was developed from an economic capitalist situation where the slave trade just made it easier to keep track of the slaves if they were black, even though in some areas of the world they had white slaves. Most of so-called 'civilized' history there were massive divides between the wealthy and the lower classes. For over 6,000 years humans have been enslaved by money and it has only been the slow and gradual collective advancement of science and technology that led to Industrial Revolution that allowed us to do more with less and that was sparked about 200 years ago. But owners and workers become the new economic divide instead of Masters and Slaves or Lords and Serfs. Capitalism brings out the worst incentives in human beings. It encourages profit maximization, competitive self-interest and infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. Doesn't seem very sane to me. Gun related deaths and mass shootings in America have a very high correlation with people suffering from shame, guilt and mental health problems which is related to inequality. Dr. James Gilligan studied this for years in the American prison system and found poverty to be the worst form of violence. The best way to reduce violence is to reduce socio-economic inequality. And how are you going to do that when money is the way we access resources and the big banks and super wealthy control the vast majority of money and creation of money? The only way is to build a new system, at the community level, with cooperation, collaboration and co-ownership as key structures to allow for localizing as much production and distribution of the goods and services everybody needs for a quality life. That can be done. It will require transition and money to make it happen, but eventually make money and debt obsolete, therefore freeing people from their enslavement by the monetary-market system that has been going on for over 6,000 years.

[@Alifeofglory]

Thank you for speaking out on behalf of all the other less fortunate victims trying to survive in that city. 😢

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

its reality everything goes up over time. thinking it will be cheaper is like thinking its gonna be 50 cents a liter for gas like in 1995.

[@Bradleyschaeffer376]

It's been a rough year with losses from failed banks, real estate crashes, a struggling economy, and downturns in stocks and dividends. It feels like everything has been going wrong. What a terrible year it is…

[@Rhgeyer278]

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[@Bradleyschaeffer376]

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[@GaryWinstonBrown]

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[@CameronTV]

How sad was just planning a big trip & thought about putting Toronto along with other Canadian cities on the list but after this video thanks to you they will no longer be getting my family’s tourist money so sad to see hope tourism doesn’t have the biggest effect on the local economy at the moment

[@sonjab6127]

this is a vert accurate assessment of the city I used to love living in. I moved out in 2017, finding it already difficult to live in, for every reason that Alina has pointed out. Our society overall is too sick to fix the underlying issues - there are too many conflicts of interest (self-interest)

[@lukazupie7220]

And those self interests were not there 5, 10, 20 years ago? Did immigrants bring it or what happened?

[@michaelleetrini3635]

I am from Toronto and it's really changed for the worst as of my recent visit, my family all wish they could move , I currently live in Halifax due to work for the past 5 years and it's also bad with similar issues . Canada 🇨🇦 has really changed for the bad .

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

if you want to know bad go live in chicago and detroit.

[@joelzinho4600]

Shitty government focusing on ideology instead of reality, has led us here. Will take 5 to 10 years to get out.

[@jamesbrown9721]

Are you talking about the conservative government that's running Nova Scotia?

[@johnmorelli3775]

You can thank Trudeau. He has more than doubled immigration, refugee volumes???, He's a moron!

[@user-iw4jl6bc8h]

Toronto does not define the identity of Canada. You are so ignorant and closed minded .

[@user-pp4ve6qo1b]

Born in Toronto in 1953. Left Toronto in 2019 and settled in rural Nova Scotia. I can sleep now. I am on zero meds now. I own a house and acreage which are completely paid for. I have zero debt. I hate Toronto and will never go back...not even to visit. Toronto is now officially the armpit of Canada.

[@Todayyespresentno]

Left Toronto and Canada 2 years ago. Very happily.

[@TheJlee28]

Surrender your passport too thanks

[@r8risk]

Those that are blind and remain blind@@TheJlee28 are often those that get most upset at others who say the truth. Don't blame him for telling you what's reality in a current dystopia.

[@TheJlee28]

@@r8risk yup surrender your passport. Truthful! We live in a 2000sqft home, front & back yards, trees lined street, 5 min walk to subway. Why would we leave Toronto? Life is great here. I work from home and gym in my front porch. To each its own. Why are you jealous?

[@r8risk]

No one is jealous of someone who needs to come online to brag about what they have while countless are on the streets. You ought to be ashamed of yourself @@TheJlee28 you gladly boast about living in a house and all you have and make yourself a fool online. Remember materiality is temporary, ultimately even those blinded get sent to the fires of hell.

[@Diana-mu9vd]

Where to? Would be nice where else is nice.

[@mashonaholistic]

I moved in Toronto in 2015 and been living here since then. I was really happy to move here and became a resident and citizen. It was what I wanted for a long time. Now I can’t deny the fact that I’m not feeling in alignment with this city anymore. Hustle & bustle to cover your basic physiological needs get in the way of my peace and mental health. It has even become stronger after the shutdown. I’m currently planning my solo packaging trip to South East Asia and really considering moving out of Canada in the next year.

[@AlinaMcleod]

That makes sense. Hope you have a great trip!

[@jeanbolduc5818]

Toronto does not define the identity of Canada but Asia ( China, India ) ... i am Canadian living in the best city in Canada ....i will never live in the horrible city of Toronto ... the city of closed minded people and asian city

[@malikattarasool188]

@alinamcleod What suggestion about to move other provinces of Canada not a Toronto ?

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

Which country in SouthEast Asia would you prefer to move?

[@markferguson7563]

At the 10 minute and 30 second point in this clip Alina gets around to highlighting how refugees are sleeping on the streets. And also, how international students can’t find accommodation and, indeed, with rents being affordable. One young woman, seethes telling is that she is “ashamed and discussed” about the plights of (as it is demonstrated by the video) are all black Africans. Well, what a total insanity it is that, we have this mid-20-year-old bleeding-heart demanding that more be done to help refugees when her fellow-Canadians are dispossessed in their own country. So, I wonder how many of these African refugees she has arranged to stay at her own, of some of her relatives’ abodes. But, considering there would EASILY be 2 billion featureless bipeds traipsing the planet residing in the Third World who reside in dire economic, and sociological quagmires, and would UPROOT themselves in a moment to go a western country to get free housing and welfare means it wouldn’t take long to transform these places they lob in, to be turned into Third World shitholes. In Britain (overwhelmingly England) over 80 percent of robberies, and knife crimes are carried out by black African youths who are mainly the offspring of asylum seekers from Africa. In France, Africa youths are also a huge part of their social problems. And it’s all manifestly due to the fact that, Africans are overtly devoid of the capacity to study really hard - like Chinese or Indians - to improve their lots. Hence, they are (as the fellow in the reddish colour shirt bemoans) looking for handouts. As for international students: they (and not just in Canada) are a major reason why there is a housing crisis and, moreover, why rents are excessive. International students in Canada, Australia, Holland and NZ, are in plague proportions and are a HUGE problem: well, except for the people running education institutions, and employers who exploit them for low wages.

[@richy77g99]

I’ve lived near Toronto for the vast majority of my adult life. Around 2016 I was working there and started to explore the city a little bit more, living there for a short time. I think the draw and attraction was that it always was a little hectic. Always something to look at, so many different cultures. Also such contrasts, walking through the downtown core and then out to a neighborhood like Greek town. With parks and even forests to be found. It went from tense to a feeling of refuge and a sense of a natural oasis within a chaotic machine. I think the sense of calm which could be found has become a little more rare. Also a certain openness that people and cultures had towards each other has been fading. Discourse with other opinions morphed into the near impossible. It’s all by design and sad to see. It’s a tangible and significant change. When you zoom out at the infrastructure, social and economic level. It’s very hard to see a healthy recovery happening anytime soon. Mostly due to those being in charge not caring. Still lots of beauty there. I would never choose to live there again, but if anyone is still living there and reading this. My advice would be to explore the greenways, parks and forests to be found. The juxtaposition of city and nature gives a heightened appreciation to both realities, and really gives a more balanced/peaceful mindset to explore the good which can be found

[@darlinspaces]

I like the way you described it. Back in 2016, all I ever heard of was robberies and rapes in High Park so we avoided that part.

[@duncanmckeown1292]

Toronto was my home town...I am now 73 but have lived in Norwich, England for decades. My relatives have moved out of Toronto to the Muskokas; but they always tell me how expensive the city now is. My cousin was in real estate so he knows whereof he speaks! Another cousin has moved to New Brunswick. I cannot go back any more because I always see more societal decline and it depresses me thoroughly. The Toronto of the Centennial year 1967 I will always remember fondly: a paradise! Problems seemed to be something other cities experienced. And the Leafs won the Stanley Cup!

[@superbird24]

New subscriber! Love your videos. Looking forward to catching up on what I missed. 🇨🇦

[@polmoro]

I'm sad to say I've been living in Canada since 1980, and you are absolutely correct. Between the pandemic and the lousy government and politics in Canada the last ten years or so, we are in serious decline. I used to highly recommend people live here.. not so much anymore. It's simply not affordable. There is just too much wrong with this country that is going to take years to fix, if they can (doubtful).

[@TheJoshuacheng]

Why do you think the city is in “serious decline” apart from affordability (which is the case in every major global city) and the drug problem (way worse in the US)?

[@atw007]

Decades not even years...... the growth is way way too slow , mindset of ppl has become negative after pandemic, v v few developed cities , less opportunities due to govt's wrong policies which will continue in foreseeable future, govt is seriously confued and next one will remain confused too, n weather is not suitable to develop it properly like a true successful country etc etc

[@kenmartin861]

Actually Canada only has one problem. It's called justin

[@aservantinbabylon]

I'm originally Canadian, left in the late 90s in my mid 20s and will never go back to live. Nor to even visit. It was already changing for the worse very rapidly then with the implementation of NAFTA when I left. Went back in 2003 out of necessity for personal reasons, had only been gone for 6 years and the changes I saw were shocking. Absolutely shocking. The amount of immigration, coupled with a sort of totalitarian attitude and policies among the people was bone chilling. Too many details to explain here.....but the last few years have really affirmed what experienced 20 years ago. It has become painfully obvious to anyone that wishes to look into the matter that Canada and the other Anglo commonwealth nations (Australia/ NZ) seem to be like the prototypes for the globalist control paradigm that is being implemented worldwide. This "decline" that everyone speaks of is absolutely by design. Your "minders" up there have very different plans for you than what you wish for and they aren't good. There will be no "fixing this", no matter how many years you are given.

[@drugsdelaney2907]

These problems are everywhere that blank is.

[@illiakhomenko6405]

Visited Toronto in 2014 for school trip and fell in love with the city. Moved to TO once graduated in 2017. It was manageable back then, now in 2023 it’s just a mess everywhere you go. Homeless everywhere, prices are sky high reaching Van level. TTC crime was scary to hear about every day on the news😢

[@birdtj82]

Homeless issue is INSANE it feels like worse than 3rd world country. How is it even possible in Asia they have police to snatch violent ppl up lock em up they end up get “clear” on drugs etc. obviously wont be easy. They dont enable it like :”here INJECTION Site “ mid of inside of Ryerson Univesity. N omg all sorts of violent critical activities everywhere spread out. All Busienss close door early, all malls close door early, all parks have washroom close early….because d city r ruined by on going drug issues n hundreds of violent homeless ppl on d street. Have seen like Naked ppl walking around weird.

[@roberto.a]

I wanted to move to Canada with the IEC program, I am an Italian citizen. I was still attached to the idea of Canada of the past. I visited a good friend of mine in Toronto and watched the country literally get worse from one year to the next. In Italy we complain about taxes and the lack of meritocracy and the few business opportunities for young people, but Canada is a thousand times worse. A former "earthly paradise" transformed into a place of subjugated people, exasperated hypocrisies, fake progressivism, a crazy real estate market with exorbitant rents, precarious working conditions, high crime, an unreliable and manipulative press, a third world healthcare system and, the more seriously, a government that oppresses with the consent of the majority. A much more evil reality than Orwell's 1984. I gave up my work permit. It's fine for short visits, but it's not a country where it makes sense to work and live.

[@WhistleMaster]

OMG you summed it up so perfectly! 👍👍

[@eternalsnows6071]

Good video. I couldn't help thinking of the Paris Hilton "Stop Being Poor" meme, but you came right out and said it at 12:45. 🤣 Life is unaffordable in Toronto (and many other places), but I feel like things are going to have to get even worse over many years before there is any real change.

[@mikedapipeboss396]

As a tradesman I can tell you the majority of guys working in Toronto don't live there. I knows some crews that come from 2 to 3 hours away and stay in hotels Monday thru Thursday then head home for the weekend. These guys earn 6 figure incomes but with kids and other regular expenses they can't afford toronto living. As for the daily situation on the streets its a manifestation of terrible management. Fiscally toronto is broke. Yet city hall is enamored with wokism and virtue signaling while people die on the streets in random knife attacks, drug overdoses, gunfire and suicides. They look the other way and spend rheir time pandering to special interest groups and professional activists. So....after living here for 40 plus years my assessment is it's going to get worse much much worse. Arrogance and lack of guts to fix problems will lead toronto down a path similar to Baltimore, or Detroit. It'll take years but it's going that way.

[@Rockyframes]

That’s so sad about Canada. Somebody derailed this country. As an immigrant I feel so bad because for years I was advocating Canada as a best country on this planet. Now, still living in the moist beautiful place in Canada in The Rockies…I am very proud I am immigrant because if things go the way they go now I can always escape to my mother land… thank you Justin 🙏

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

Ya right. Under Harper and even under the Cons, immigration numbers don't change. And major economic policies DON'T change.

[@stephenletts4942]

you think it would be better under a conservative government? social welfare is even worse under conservatives?

[@Rockyframes]

@@stephenletts4942 I don't care conservatives, liberals, democrats... I care about their policies. Social welfare doesn't make Canada great country. Don't wanna get into politics but check statistics, quality of living 10 years ago and now. Canada has plummeted in many rankings. I am here to work and make my and my family life better. If I was in need yes than I need a welfare but so far I've never received any of these from Canada. Paying more and more taxes and see how spending is getting out of control. This video shows exactly how policies of this government work in real life... For average Canadian. We have a lot to do to get back what Canada was before.

[@nicktankard1244]

@@Rockyframes i'm an immigrant myself and "social welfare" is not my priority to be honest. Yes we should help all people as a society but when even relatively successful and hard working people are struggling you have a problem. I have a good career in IT and lots of experience. Moved to Canada 2 years ago and even with my decent salary it's not easy living here. Can't afford to buy a property and everything is crazy expensive. And not even talking about the healcare crisis.

[@berardoferrari]

@@stephenletts4942 so the NDP is the solution?! LOL!!!!

[@niloc1229]

Born and raised in south etobicoke (toronto area to the west towards missiauga) Moved to Windsor in 2016. Havent looked back. Sad to hear about this.

[@horridohobbies]

I agree with you 100 percent. I live in Markham; I used to live in Toronto. If you can't afford the cost of living in Toronto, stay away. If you worry about your personal safety, stay away. The rise in home invasions is very worrying. The rise in subway crime is very worrying.

[@clifflayne9073]

Diversity is our strength. Think of all that we gain from being home to the best of all that is available from these diversified cultures. Think of all of the worst that we also gain from so many of those diversified cultures. When we import people from all around the world, we import, along with all of the good, all of the bad. What is culturally and morally acceptable in a great many of these foreign countries, is NOT acceptable in Canada. However, our accepting liberal society has a solution for that, we simply change to meet the ever moving social and moral target. This is why our Prime Minister gets away with stating that Canada has no national identity or culture worth preserving, since we just accept and then change to suit.

[@jameswilliams3304]

Diversity has never been a strength. The only countries that pulled it off were Switzlerland and Singapore, the latter maintaining a 75% Chinese majority, having a brutal justice system, and closed borders.

[@clifflayne9073]

@@marcosreal11: a plan for what?

[@clifflayne9073]

@@marcosreal11: oh, that plan. That plan was started by his father and is now, for all intents and purpose, pretty much complete. Canada will never recover from the social damage that Justin and his father have rendered onto us.

[@Peter-sz1sn]

@@jameswilliams3304 I might be wrong, but it is my understanding that if you are born in Switzerland and both your parents were born in Switzerland but their parents did not have Swiss citizenship, you dont have Swiss citizenship. If so, then Switzerland is not a model country for diversity.

[@godwinl5905]

Part of the problem that no body mentions is how some tenants exploit the system making mom and pop landlords reluctant to rent out. Landlords with deep pockets jack up rent prices to account for these “shady tenants”. It is a small percentage but it takes away valuable housing units the city desperately needs.

[@mmm8547]

Agreed. We wouldn't rent out our house while away during the winter as we have no idea if they will leave or if we could even get them out. The tribunal has a year wait to get a hearing. Completely crazy. The 2018 landlord tenant law didn't do much to help the housing situation in Ontario, it only made it worse in my opinion.

[@electricpurple4112]

Whatever, world's smallest violin. THis is not what drove costs up. At all.

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

That's called a BUBBLE. And it's gonna pop. and it ain't be pretty when that happens. It's speculation.

[@noseboop4354]

@@mmm8547 You really believe renting your house out for only the winter would help the housing crisis? Where is that person going to live during the summer?

[@janetyeoman1544]

As a former landlord, I can see why nobody wants to be one now with the Landlord / Tenant law in Ontario. Several friends sold the units when they were finally able to remove the none paying tenants.

[@wawhotel2534]

Thank you for Real information lady ❤

[@williammanuel994]

Don't forget that diversity is our strength!😂😂😂

[@spelbound]

After returning from Japan, I feel a strong desire to leave Toronto. The prevalence of homelessness, excessive garbage, high prices, and the self-centeredness of people have tarnished my perception of the city. Toronto used to hold a special place in my heart, but now I eagerly anticipate escaping this unpleasant environment. Unfortunately, I see no signs of improvement in the foreseeable future. Overall, my dissatisfaction with Toronto has grown to the point where I dislike my hometown and I am actively pursuing opportunities to relocate outside of the country.

[@bananian]

What happens to the homeless in Japan?

[@ronbonora7872]

bye and good luck. It is always greener on the other side until you are there!

[@spelbound]

I live in two parts of the world. I have been on the other side. So your point is moot.@@ronbonora7872

[@Deggial11]

Wow I am so amazed how Toronto has changed! I used to live there for 6 years and it was amazing, Toronto has a special place in my heart I had a great time I met wonderful people and learnt a lot, however, the city has changed in a very bad way which is sad to hear at some point I was seriously considering going back but I suppose I will have to let it go.

[@lucasrem]

Not for locals, international people need it now...

[@nuudelz3711]

This is just anti immigration rhetoric. City isn’t changed in the 20 years we been here since leaving the hammer. Everyone’s shocked at the high costs, go check the suburbs and the thievery going on there with LLCs buying single family detached homes only for them to lay vacant for years.

[@pbasswil]

Yikes, for a Montrealer, those apartment rents are mind-boggling. I'm in a spacious 5 1/2 (5 plus bathroom w/ tub) in the West of Montreal Island, an easy 40 minutes public transit to downtown, and (grandfathered for 2 decades) we're paying CAD$760 - in 2024!

[@user-vw6ti9nv7k]

Why did you have to tell everyone about it here? Look what you've done. Mass exodus to Montreal! Enjoy your fair rent while you can!

[@pbasswil]

@@user-vw6ti9nv7kI think someone in Mexico already let the word out - within ~ 5 years, suddenly half my neighbours are from there! (All very nice folks, btw.)

[@7hx89]

Canada needs a strong and forward looking government, and streamlined legislations. Sorry for the affordability issue but Canada is the second largest country by land size. More land should be allocated for apartments and infrastructure. As simple as this. Because of vast vested interest and NIB, we are stuck and can’t come up with a meaningful solution.

[@ivyk8030]

Living in Toronto is the worst part of my life. It has made me extremely negative - I just hate being there and constantly Complain. I have been lucky enough to travel for months at a time, and get to see how amazing other countries and cities are. But it has just opened my eyes to how awful Toronto is, and I dread the last few days of vacation because I know I have to go back to my downtown shoebox, listen to sirens and hate my existence again. Desperately want to leave, and hoping to this year, but the day to day is just so bad. I make decent money but haven’t been able to save a thing due to the high cost of living. The winter is coming and I dread that so so so deeply. F this city, I’m sorry.

[@str8cndian]

have you been to the CN tower? I heard it's wonderful! How bout the LEafs? don't you like Austin Mathews?

[@minkorrh]

Right there with you.

[@minkorrh]

BOOORRIING.@@str8cndian

[@paul.hogan720]

Canada just straight up blows

[@tomgold5646]

yep it sure does@@paul.hogan720

[@dougrobinson8697]

To Everyone bad mouthing Toronto I got a few thoughts to share. First off I’ve lived in Edmonton all my life. But growing up there were two constants in my life almost every summer. 2 places where I could get away have fun not come back for weeks or even months on end. One of them was Toronto . That trend has continued into my 40s. Second I don’t consider Edmonton home. I consider Toronto and my other favourite place my homes always have always will. Third Toronto like Every other city has bad and great things about it. But the great things far outweigh the bad things. Yes Toronto is big. But it’s also beautiful vibrant majestic lovely a sight to behold once you visited it long enough. You got the blue jays you got the cn tower you got a lot of stuff no other city has. Toronto is my dream city. It’s where dreams can actually turn into big dreams That result in major success. Toronto is for me. I love it I always will and to be honest it’s way better than Edmonton.❤️❤️❤️🙂👍🎉🎉.

[@foxxycleopatra615]

Im from Edm too and was just in TO 2 wks ago. I love it there and also agree it’s way better than here. I’ve wanted to move to TO forever but more and more I’m put off by how insanely expensive it is. I’m even starting to find Edm getting expensive and have been thinking maybe being abroad for a while would be the best option financially

[@dougrobinson8697]

@@foxxycleopatra615 hi. I was in Toronto over a month ago. In my mind nothing ever changes about Toronto. It’s a very big beautiful special great city in my mind . That’s how it’s always been. That’s how it will always be. For me I was born and raised in Edmonton but it’s not my home in my mind. Toronto and my other favourite place will always be home to me. Take care good luck with everything.

[@Ninetiesrules]

So would you recommend it? I wanted to swap my flat for 3 months to be in a different city/country. Could you recommend me any safe areas? I also don’t mind being in the suburbs Thank you!

[@Bleuduciel]

When I moved to Toronto 20 years ago, it was more pleasant and people in general was polie and good manners. For the last 10 years and especially the last 5 years, it’s worst and worst. Don’t expect someone say Hi to you in your building. Exception, if you have a pet. No one will look behind in case there’s someone for the door. Everyone stuck with his community, don’t expect to have discussions with people if you’re not form the same community . Take the subway, you see people put their own bag in an empty seat. And people with feet on the seat. It become a very selfish city, only for me, me, me. I travel in differents parts of the world and, Toronto is the most unfriendly city. Expensive for apartment, insurance, groceries, cost of living. Hope it will change again but I have no hope and I prefer to be away as much as I can or move away .

[@jay13051993]

Been there since 10 months, and agree with your assessment about the living in Toronto.