Desde Londres a Toronto: Más cuentos de expatriados
Semana pasada, compartimos un essay about relocating from Scotland to Canada.
Ahora, en “Being There: Toronto,” which appeared in The Economist’s Intelligent Life revista, Tim Roston, que se trasladó desde Londres (Inglaterra) to Toronto a decade ago, escribe más sobre 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 que aquÃ. Toronto supports numerous first-rate restaurants, but the dinner party thrives here too (gracias a nuestro hospitable nature y 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: "Ustedes vinieron aquà desde Londres? ¿Por qué?"
No me refiero a, I say. I love it here.
Among the things he enjoys are “the world’s least confusing underground (subway) system,” “awe-inspiring” Lago Ontario, and the way that Toronto “give(con) me a feeling I often have in this city: that I’ve travelled back to the Britain of my childhood.”
Y para más cuentos de la vida de expatriados en Canadá, read “Un americano en Calgary” y mi propia historia de Canadá.
Foto © Carolyn B. Heller
