Is Toronto So Bad?

Being a native Torontonian, I'm always torn between the place. There's so much talent and interesting people there. But as a collective whole, the city is, or at least was, lacking character and something love and endear. There was a stifling inferiority complex that fed into this too - checkout what Maestro Fresh Wes has to say about it in the middle (from about 4:00 minutes) of this video.

But looking back, I can see how much T.O. has to offer. What's funny is I always come across old friends that are there and want to continue living in T.O. for the foreseeable future. Heck, I went back last fall and almost didn't recognise Yonge and Gerrard, where the Eaton Centre is. It's bigger and more eventful than I remember from even 2 years ago. But what would it be like to actually live there again?

Well MSTRKRFT, the world's latest techno super group, is from T.O. and gives a really good breakdown of the dynamic I'm trying to describe.

Posted by Timothy Washington on 2007.12.08| Original post

#archive #frye #thebox