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From London to Toronto: More expat tales

Submitted by on October 21, 2009 – 7:10 amNo Comment

Toronto Lake Ontario img_2329-1Last 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?”

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.”

Read the complete essay here.

And for more tales of expat life in Canada, read “An American in Calgary” and my own Canada story.

Photo ©Carolyn B. Heller

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