From London to Toronto: More expat tales
Last week, we shared an essay about relocating from Scotland to Canada.
Now, in “Being There: Toronto,” which appeared in The Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine, Tim Roston, who moved from London (England) to Toronto a decade ago, writes more about the pleasures of his adopted city than about the trials of expat life:
Tonight we’re having a few other parents over for dinner, including a male married couple—nothing unusual about that here. Toronto supports numerous first-rate restaurants, but the dinner party thrives here too (thanks to our hospitable nature and spacious, more-bang-for-buck properties).
If there’s a new person at the table I’m likely to be asked a question that betrays the average Torontonian’s slight uncertainty about their civic pride: “You came here from London? Why?â€
Don’t get me started, I say. I love it here.
Among the things he enjoys are “the world’s least confusing underground (subway) system,” “awe-inspiring” Lake Ontario, and the way that Toronto “give(s) me a feeling I often have in this city: that I’ve travelled back to the Britain of my childhood.”
And for more tales of expat life in Canada, read “An American in Calgary” and my own Canada story.
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