This city's a dump - and smells like one (Toronto)

The Toronto Sun ^ | Tue, April 18, 2006 | JOE WARMINGTON

[fanfan]

[fanfan]

No offense taken.

I hate Toronto too.

[Lancey Howard]

this horrible blight we all know is a national disgrace. Have you been to a city park in recent years? Do you like the smell of urine? It has become a dirty, disgusting city. The looks on the faces of our tourists say all you need to know about the possibility of them coming back to the garbage dump

Huh. Sounds exactly like San Fransicko.

[Signalman]

This has happened to the leftist-run cities of the US, like NYC and San FranFreako.

[NorthOf45]

Toronto is a dirty city ... and it DOES literally stink. I lived there for two yrs. I couldn't wait to get back to the Maritimes. Torontonians, for the most part, don't seem to care. They are too focussed on themselves to think about taking care of the city they live in.

[Kirkwood]

"They are too focussed on themselves to think about taking care of the city they live in."

Just like in SF. They get so used to living with the homeless that they become immune to it. To a visitor, it is disgusting.

[dinoparty]

I lived in Toronto for four years until 1998. I don't have memories of it being particularly dirty or smelly (except on hot summer days or in chinatown). Maybe it has gotten worse.

The real stink is with the liberal/socialist supermajority in the town. They are rotten.

[dfwgator]

I last was in Toronto about 15 years ago, and I thought then it was a relatively clean city. It's a shame that it has gone downhill so quickly.

[Rokurota]

I left Toronto in 2000. It did seem to be going downhill then. There was a pretty good movement in the mid-90s to clean up before things were obviously going to get out of hand, but it lost steam after a few years. Haven't been back since, so I can't say what it's like now.

[goodnesswins]

Yeah.....I can never understand people who go to San Francisco for a "vacation." Yech.

[oyez]

All that happens with the way they handle it is the homeless people just bunk in and make a life of it -- and use our city as a toilet.

I could not have said any better.

Speaking of the smoking thing. Did you ever notice that the homeless always seem to be be carrying a fresh pack of name brand cigarettes. I noticed a man sitting by a store breathing through a oxygen mask and asking for hand outs. When the crowd of people thinned out he stuffed mask back in his bag and pulled out a unopened pack of Marlboros.

[NorthOf45]

I remember walking through a park and smelling raw sewage. It turned out that the park, which ran along a shallow valley, had a sewage line running through it with vents every so often. I also clearly remember garbage all along the 401 and throughout the city. Add to this the air quality warnings throughout the summer. I moved back to the Maritimes in '97.

[TEXASPROUD]

Hey Clive,
Give us your input on this, don't you live in a Toronto suburb?

[Heartofsong83]

Toronto is far worse than any of them. Stay away at all costs.

[Blind Eye Jones]

TO stinks! I use to live there and now would never want to visit. They're all too cool in their smug pretentious victim hood trip, via the Liberal and NDP mindset, which basically translates into this: culture = squalor.

[Heartofsong83]

Last year, there were over 40 days of Code Orange or Code Red air quality in Toronto.

[GMMAC]