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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amal Shukup" data-source="post: 2166464" data-attributes="member: 6291">I'm a Toronto boy, and I would love to reccomend it. It DOES have some excellent qualities: The clincher for me is that it is one of the (if not THE) most multicultural cities in the world, teeming with top notch food, energy, and cultural experiences...Good schools, good transportation (downtown)... However - we got the traffic thing ugly, and there's one (only one, but still) nasty patch o' neon down on the Gardiner (which you would never see if you don't drive).Still, my REAL reccomendation is to echo someone's earlier suggestion of Waterloo:1. Top Notch school (my brother went - computer science, mathematics and fine art. Yes, he's a freak), with a number of other not-bad schools very close by (lots of stuff for students to do, lots of affordable student housing, etc.). 2. Decent bus system (and not hard to live close to school/stuff) 3. Not a ridiculously high cost of living (unlike Toronto or Vancouver). You DO NOT want to know what rent costs in this city and BUYING something downtown is truly ugly (Oh, the Condo signs SAY $150K, but that's for the bachelor in the basement between the laundry room and the furnace, and does NOT include the $300/month Condo Fees et al...) 4. An easy bus away from Toronto when ya just HAVE to have world class Greek/Indian/Thai/Japanese/French/Italian/Spanish/Ethiopian/Russian/Persian/Middle-Eastern/Morrocan/... (You get the Idea) Cuisine, or see the Film Festival, Catch a real Museum/Art Gallery or see a nice concert... 5. Or go the other way and hang in Mennonite country (the opposite of Urban) 6. The Waterloo Computer Science degree is THE gold standard in this country. Also the top Ranked University in Canada overall, according to Maclean's yearly 'Guide to Canadian Universities' (only #2 last year). Also, a significant number of high tech companies maintain development/production facilities in the area (aided and abbetted by the regional goverment AND the University) simply to grab graduates and coop students when they finish baking...Hope you like our country!A'Mal</blockquote>

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