Toronto is the biggest city in North America

How is it the biggest city in North America?

Mexico City, LA, NYC all eclipse it in terms of population.

If you mean footprint, Perth, Western Australia is bigger than any of them.

I dare say you're not wondering why nobody ever talks about Perth

Biggest and truly the most boring. They roll up the sidewalks at 5pm.

Not the biggest by any standard.

I want what OP is smoking.

Canadians

They do have a lot of hotties there, but not as many as say Gainesville, FL

Toronto simply is a misplaced Alberta.

Hardly R7. They are more like a Scottish version of Detroit.

R8, minus the Art Deco and Motown, of course.

Toronto is /not/ like Alberta which is ground zero for assholes.

Before my first business trip to Toronto a colleague told me I’d like it because it was so clean.

After two days I realized describing a city as “clean” was the equivalent of saying a gal “has a great personality.”

Sorry I did think it was the biggest city in North America and then AS SOON AS I CLICKED POST I realized Mexico City is bigger.

Yes, I'm stoned. So fuck y'all.

[quote] So why the fuck isn’t anyone talking about Toronto?

It is my least favourite North American city. I actually preferred Oakland.

Because Toronto sucks.

The only city in Canada is Montreal.

Mon pays le Québec

I haven't been to Montreal yet but Vancouver is very nice.

Do you think this is click bait or that the OP is really that stupid. Depressing.

Vancouver is Wonderful! Montreal is Wonderful! Toronto isn't bad. It reminded me of Chicago, because it has a very Midwestern vibe. It is not the Canadian NYC, but it has a very diverse population, as does Vancouver. The only thing that "happens" in Toronto as far as I can see, is the Toronto International Film Festival, which is a major festival.

Montreal and the rest of PQ is the great because it makes it easier to pretend you're not in Canada.

That city is dead to me now that Remington's has closed.

Canada is growth for growth's sake. But there's really nothing there but expensive real estate.

Toronto is a large city, but it is roughly the same size as Chicago - both the core city itself, as well as the scope of suburbs.

They often remind me of each other. (Minus the crime spots in Chicago, of course.)

meh.

Toronto is smaller than New York in area, population and metro area population.

Close your eyes and think of Toronto? What do you see? Well, there you go.

Is Toronto boring? I keep hearing it’s very dull.

I've been to Toronto and Montreal 6 or 7 times each. If there was ever an apples and oranges comparison, it's this.

I love them both. Toronto is the most diverse city I've ever been in, the parks and the islands are gorgeous, and the food is terrific. Architecturally, it's a bit of a mess, but so is my old hometown NYC.

Montreal is absolutely gorgeous architecturally, and the parks and trails surpass Toronto. But it's less diverse, and the food can be quite, say, regional. Nonetheless, if forced to choose;, I'd take Montreal.

Both are wonderful places to be gay, so it's all good. Vancouver is on my bucket list, but I'm not much of a west coast city aficionado.

Toronto is similar to Chicago in other ways, in my humble opinion -

15 to 20 years ago I thought both had a more interesting of culture, restaurants, neighborhoods and architecture.

It's diminished a bit in both places - lots of gentrification, the gayborhoods have diminished, etc. and the downtown is becoming way too developed, too many soulless square boxes.

[quote] So why the fuck isn’t anyone talking about Toronto?

Beats me.

I once went to a club in Toronto and upon getting on the dance floor I realized how incredibly short all of the men were.

What no one talks about, and I’d bet the locals want it exactly that way, is the part of southern Ontario north of Toronto. It’s just so gorgeous.

What's so gorgeous about? Isn't it mostly flat, glacier-scraped farmland?

He said the parks and islands were gorgeous.

No, R33. It’s forest primeval. I live in Oregon and that southern Ontario drive was like a more-than-Oregon, which I would not have thought was possible.

Hell, I drove the Al-Can Highway to Alaska and back a couple years ago and wasn’t as enchanted there as I was by Ontario.

Words fail, unfortunately. How do I say how beautiful it was? I can’t seem to capture it.

[quote] Words fail, unfortunately. How do I say how beautiful it was? I can’t seem to capture it.

🙄

OP just said that because he was in Toronto and ordered Uber Eats and the food arrived early.

Toronto is only the 4th most populous city in N. America, and its metro population puts it in the same league as Dallas, Tx..

Montreal is a phenomenal city! (Never been to Toronto). However as a friend of mine says “Yeah, great city. They spend nine months talking about how great the other three months are.”

Bathhouse scene in Toronto is awesome. I lost my virginity in one back in the day.

It's lovely, I had a mother who lived there once.

They call its metro "The Golden Horseshoe" which will tell you fucking dull they are.

The mean of course that the west end of Lake Ontario is bordered by city from Niagara on the Lake to Oshawa, but they didn't really get Hamilton's permission for this stance.

Back before Toronto absorbed five of its suburbs, North York big fair to become the San Jose to Toronto's San Francisco. But the consolidation actually hurt North York, made it déclassé

bid fair

R42 - the metro is less than useless -- it travels under one major avenue towards the lake, then makes a U and travels back under another avenue -- the problem is the 2 parallel avenues are only a few blocks apart from each other. Truly an idiotic design.

[quote]Toronto is a large city, but it is roughly the same size as Chicago - both the core city itself, as well as the scope of suburbs.

[quote]They often remind me of each other. (Minus the crime spots in Chicago, of course.)

Yes, Toronto is like Chicago without the guns and feral blacks.

Do the call their subway The Metro now?

Montreal has The Metro.

Back in the 90s my francophone Quebecoise aunt asked where to find the Metro. The cop answered "you're in metro, lady"

Mexico City is the largest city in North America, with a population of 9.2 million.

New York City is second with 8.3 million.

Los Angeles is third with 3.8 million

Toronto is only FOURTH, with only 3. 0 million.

You need to BEG forgiveness, OP. Toronto is not even a third the size of Mexico City, or half the size of NYC!

It's always been funny to me that NYC is bigger than LA because LA just seems ENORMOUS to me. If I didn't know any better I would think it's much bigger than NYC.

[quote]Do the call their subway The Metro now?

NO.

I don't know. Immediately west of Toronto is that huge ugly Mississauga. Millions of people there. And it is very ugly. The nice older parts were built in the 60s.

R49, op is wrong but you should be using metro or urban area population, not city,

I hear Toronto is where the maritimers are bold. They always have a potful, but they never get a pot of gold.

R53: Why? Chicago is Chicago, not Chicagoland. LA is LA (and a huge geographic area) but not the Southland. Metro NYC would include Connecticut and New Jersey. They're not in New York.

[quote] It's always been funny to me that NYC is bigger than LA because LA just seems ENORMOUS to me. If I didn't know any better I would think it's much bigger than NYC.

If you're talking about physical parameters, I think the Los Angeles city limits encompass the largest square mileage of any city on Earth--I know at least it once did.

But it is obviously not the most populous city in the US.

If we're talking about largest urban areas in North America, Toronto loses out even more. Mexico City is still largest with 25 million, new york is still second with 22 million, and Toronto drops down to 8th with 7.6 million.

R56 at least three Australian cities are larger - Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.

None of those are bigger than TO

R59, I should have stipulated that their city limits are bigger. Population-wise, no.

One thing Toronto can claim is that it's the biggest CRANE city in North America.

What has OP been smoking? Toronto is the 4th biggest city in North America. It's not the biggest.

What about the cities that rank 50th to 100?

r55 because city limits are arbitrary, while Metro/CSA and urban area populations are based on set formulas (commuting patterns and density) that are the same for every city in the country. A city's importance and influence don't end at it's borders and are much better represented by its MSA/CSA or urban area ranking. For example, San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the country, but it's CSA ranks 23rd. Boston is the 23rd largest city in the US, but it's CSA is seventh largest. Which of those numbers more closely aligns with what you know of those cities and where they rank in the American context?

Mexico City dwarfs everybody else on the continent -- even NYC.

The fascist state of Toronto!

Why does someone keep bringing up Australia?