Toronto .... noone comes from here

Toronto is one of those strange cities that noone came from. There are 3 million of us living here and yet none of us came from here. We weren't born here .... we weren't educated here. It must have been some extraterrestial explosion that brought us all here.

There are schools where children were educated; there are hospitals where many were born. And yet none of us came from here. Weird.

If you are a Torontonian who came from one of the more "sophisticated" cities of the world ... maybe Paris ...Moscow ...London ....Bombay ....Peking ... then you would have first found Toronto somewhat, what's the right word?, simple. Then if you stayed it grows on you. It has a soul of its own and we stop being snobbish. We start to appreciate the wonders, the beauties, the very essence of this city as a unique and wonderful place.

We appreciate that it works. We love the diversity of the people. We walk the parks and the streets and the waterfront. We drink cold beers on the patios. We attend church and gain spiritual understanding. We moan about our politicians.....hey ... we are like all other cities. We have arrived!

I love Toronto and this is what this blog is all about.