We regularly get “turkey jams” on our roads in North Idaho. After sitting a few minutes, I’ve had to get out and shoo them off the road. Otherwise we could sit there for an hour or more.
Those Torontoans (Toronters? Toronites? Torontoites?) must lead sheltered lives.
The proper term (one which anyone outside Canada has no need to know) is “Torontonian”.
As for being sheltered, since it’s founding in the 1790s there is enough forest within the city limits, including most of the downtown core, that the default option with wildlife is to co-exist to the point where I was in my early twenties before discovering that in certain parts of the city, wild deer not only thrive, they breed at a sustainable rate that is adequate for a viable gene pool and low enough for habitat that they can stay in place without any outside intervention in any way.
I am 60 years old now, well-travelled by any layman’s standard (France, Eastern Canada, most American states west of the Mississippi, Bahamas), but I have only lived outside the city once; that was five months in a City 6 1/2 hours north of Toronto that began when I was 17 and ended by the time I was 18.
To sum it up, my ultimate retirement plan is to live within a 3-hour drive from Toronto, enough to satisfy me to work at my own choosing while enjoying all the benefits of both city life and country life well into my mid-90s.
Correction: I’ve visited most American states EAST of the the Mississippi.
I slow down to 5 mph and keep going. They scamper out of the way—I’ve never hit one yet.