@David Merlot The desert heat is kinda getting to me as I get older. Day after day of excessive temps, 6 month long heat wave, so I am considering going to cooler places. Super expensive here but so is Toronto, also. Crime way up under Newsom’s tenure as Governor. He is terrible yet keeps getting elected.

@David Merlot might do but I cannot afford the prices for real estate there now🤔😃

@@PopShoppekid GTA Real-estate is now 30% off, may get even cheaper next year

toronto lost its distinct looks in the 50s and 60s when a lot of art deco and neogothic buildings were demolished and replaced with the giant bland concrete and glass rectangles we see in the financial district. a lot of toronto's 21st century era highrises actually give it a more distinct look. the only other city in north america that really resembles toronto's level of modern development is vancouver.

Keeping those older buildings is how you get the run down Gothic look hamilton has

It's a shame so many got hit by the wrec king ball and not preserved today's buildings are only built for function and not very detailed inside or out

@@Skyfoogle What? Have you been to Vancouver? Downtown is mixture of old and new high rise condos. The old ones look like communist era buildings in Eastern European country I grew up. And the new ones look like generic high rises that are built in China. Everything has same color, there are just few buildings that look interesting and have some architectural value but most of it is generic and boring. And Toronto starts to look very similar. All these ugly condos. That’s not modern, that’s just lazy development that doesn’t take beauty into consideration. And I’m actually one who likes the financial core because it has serious skyscrapers that create wow effect. CN Tower is great too. But those condos are degrading downtown big time. Just look at photos of Sydney and then compare with Toronto and Vancouver, look carefully at individual buildings, you’ll see what I’m talking about.

@@Skyfoogle Toronto still has some important landmarks that make it still somewhat comparable to Sydney, but Vancouver is like fast food for your eyes, it looks beautiful first time you see it, but if you live in it and start paying attention to every building, then it becomes so dissapointing to look at. The nature is what makes this city stand out. But whenever I hear that Vancouver is beautiful city, I cringe. I know that it’s fringe opinion but I don’t care, I lived in beautiful cities and Vancouver without the nature and beaches would be forgotten. And I only criticize it because I want it to be beautiful. Canada deserves real beautiful west coast city like San Francisco (without the drugs and homeless scene). I guess Victoria is nice but that’s not really a major city.

We need to get muti-family zoning in single family residential areas. More mixed-use developments too.

I also noticed a great deal of streetcar lines have been removed since then, you can see many of them disappear in the pictures in this video.

I share your sadness. Some of the older buildings look as if they were built by quite another civilization, one with imagination and a sense of beauty. Toronto now looks like a big warehouse of cardboard boxes stuck together with glass.

100%.....When you go down even Charles by U of T...all the old Victorians and the rugby field ripped down...Old Varsity Stadium... Compared to Montreal which has three separate era's built side by side...from the 1600's to now...amazing.

some were and some destroy two fires as well.

LOL! 😆

There are literally thousands of Victorian and Edwardian brick buildings still standing in Toronto. Entire neighbourhoods of them.

Most of those buildings still stand, except many of them are a lot cleaner today. Not sure I agree they all look better in old photos.