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Toronto
Pros:
>Any kind of ethnic restaurant you can imagine
>Lots of urban nature in the suburban ravines
>Decent mountain biking in the city
>Lake Ontario, and lots of coastline to explore on the east side of town
>MEC
>Lake keeps things cool in summer
>For a big city, decently close to good places like Bruce Peninsula, Georgian Bay and Algonquin Park
>Bike racks on GO buses to get bike out to the countryside
>Not much snow in winter so can bike all year round
cons:
>Crazy redneck junkie mayor who makes the Tea Party look sane
>Sprawling boring suburbs (Rush even wrote a song about them)
>Traffic and crowds
>Constant construction everywhere you go this summer
>It's still a fairly long drive to any decent woods to go inna
>Smog
>No mountains (actually not all that far from Appalachia, but it means a border crossing).
>Not much snow in the winter, so I only get to XC ski a few to zero times a year unless I drive north of town (but when there is snow, there's lots of places to go).
