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Matt Gurney: I'd leave Toronto in a heartbeat, if only the TTC was running...

Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:11 PM by Matt Gurney

I was born in Toronto. I spent the early years of my life there before my family's business interests took us north into the 905. I've also lived in cottage country for much of my life. In other words, I'm something of a rarity in our increasingly urban country — I've done it all: big cities, sprawling suburbs, and dusty country roads. Each have their benefits and drawbacks, but when the time came recently for my fiancee and I to buy our first home together, the very first thing that we agreed on was to not even consider living in the 416, which we both deemed a black hole of frustration and bureaucratic incompetence unworthy of our municipal tax dollars (which they'd just blow on nonsense, anyway).

Our choice is looking wiser every day.

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