I’m sick of all these “privileged” kids from Toronto coming here for university and then ripping on the Maritimes at every chance they get. And no, I’m obviously not saying you’re all like that…but the few that are are so vocal about it that sometimes it’s hard to remember. I would have more respect if the ones who weren’t so disgusted by Halifax, NS, and the East in general would maybe point out how rude these kind of comments are, from a Torontonian point of view? Cause every day somebody from your city is finding something new for me to be ashamed of.
Honestly, how would YOU feel if somebody walked into your house and said it was a pathetic place to live? Same think, ok? And it’s pretty fucking immature.
But srsly, GTFO if you can’t even have a little bit of respect. This is my turf.
—small town girl
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2009.
Slap them with a trout. That’s what I call hospitality.
Start a louder conversation about how rude people from Toronto are. Then, fight to the death.
The biggest problem I have with people from Toronto is them making fun of my Nova Scotian accent, even though I don’t have that thick of an accent despite being from here. But then, we can just as easily make fun of their Ontarian accent.
How’s it going there, guy?
I’ve found most people from Ontario praise Halifax as being way better than whatever shithole in Southern Ontario they’re from.
I only notice my accent when I go to the states and they make fun of me for it.
“okay, okay… say ‘boat’…”
“boat”
“AAAAHAHAHahaha”
And these guys were from Boston!
People from Baaawwwston awwwrr the layyyhhsst people who should be making fun of annybahhdy’s ahhhhcents!
We do say “aboat” though, and technically it should more be “abayout.” English and Aussies make fun of us for it, too!
But they always spell it “aboot”, no one says “aboot”! I resent that.
I used to talk about how the rich Ontario snobs cannot get into “better” universities like UofT, Western, Laval, U-Ottawa, etc. When they responded, which was rare, I asked if they’d like to fight about it.
There’s not much support that daddy can buy when a local is calling them out.
1. pretty sure those aren’t better universities… at least they weren’t when I was going to uni.
2. not sure I’d fight about it but
3. you’re going to run into dicks your whole life whether they’re from here or away….
nothing you can do aboot it but tolerate like a good canadian.
4. ask them how their have not province is doing now… 🙂
NGF rips on Acadia whenever he gets a chance, zZz, and goes on about how much better CBU is 🙁
What really made me sad was when I lived in ontario and my boss’s boss would rip on the maritimes on a regular basis. He asked my first day which one of the two newbies was from the maritimes and I said I was and said “are you from there?” and he was like “fuck no” and would bash the maritimes whenever he got a chance.
I was terribly homesick and this made it worse 🙁
For every CFA that comes here and mocks the city, two more show up, fall in love with it and vow to never leave.
(Says this ex-pat Edmontonian, and his Vancouverite and Torontonian friends)
As a Toronto girl who’s lived in the Maritimes for nearly 5 years now, I’ve noticed way more hate coming from the locals towards the Torontonians than vice-versa. So bad that I stopped saying I was from Toronto when people asked. Nova Scotians friendly? Yeah right – only to their own kind. No wonder us ‘people from away’ get a chip on our shoulder about Maritimers. In my experience, it’s well deserved.
The vast majority of folks you meet from “Toronto” are in reality from the outskirts, lol…North York, Brampton, the suberbs of Concord, Markham and so on., so it seems odd to try and pigeonhole some student as being from “Toronto”…even if that’s how he’she likes to ID themselves…
Years ago, playing the GW’s, my singer called Friday “S&M night” (Scarbourough and Mississauga night) as everyone flocked in from the ‘burbs for their fix of urban “cool” sporting their latest mall fashions and/or a Kenora dinner jacket….
Bogbean, I’m one of those Maritimers that rips on you stupid CFA Torontonians… go the fuck back to Toronto, eh!
But don’t worry, I don’t really mean it. It’s all in good fun. Honestly, some of the friendliest and happiest people I’ve met here in Halifax are from Toronto, like this one girl last night. If only I’d kept talking to her, I might not have ended up sad and alone covered in my own vomit this morning. Ohh well, BLNT.
Frosty is correct, though, that most people from “Toronto” are actually from Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham, Pickering, Whitby, etc. Scarborough is now technically part of Toronto, as is North York. JSYK.
when we told our friends in to we were moving here the responses were…wtf you can’t move you will hate it and on and on…but i wasn’t hatched there and when people ask me where i’m from i just say canada
fuck toronto and them dicks – nova scotia is scotia don’t like it leave – we have lots of ocean to hide your ignorant asses in
Having lived in Ontario for several decades I noticed a general attitude of ignorance when it comes to Atlantic Canadians. In many Ontarian’s minds we are all lumped into one category – Newfoundlanders, and not always in a complimentary way. Many Ontarians fail to recognize the distinct differences of each Atlantic province. I got tired of hearing silly Newfie jokes from otherwise well-intentioned people who thought trotting out their repetoire of these jokes was a good way to make an Easterner feel welcome.
Maybe it’s just me, but these days when I’m in Toronto, I don’t hear much of anything from most folks I meet…in fact it’s sometimes hard to find people that speak the english, at least in the transportation industry