In recent months, Toronto’s transit system has ramped up service, students have returned to in-person classes and daycares are up and running once again.
Things almost seem like they did before COVID-19 changed the world. But despite the gradual return to normal, you might notice the city feels emptier.
A November report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Data Lab analyzed foot traffic trends in cities across the country from January 2020 to September 2022. It found foot traffic in Toronto’s downtown core is 46 per cent lower than before the pandemic hit — a stark contrast to places like Brampton, Brantford and Barrie, where foot traffic actually increased.
Toronto is a pretty dull, Karen’y city and its downtown is unattractive and cold especially in winter.
I don’t blame anyone for not returning.
It doesn’t take much to best living in the downtown core.
Just a place where you could afford to live rather than subsist would be a good start.
A park or ravine without or at least with fewer addicts, drunks and the mentally ill.
A place where it still makes sense to report a crime.
A place where the municipal government and school board hasn’t declared a DEI or CRT race war on you and your family.
A place that hasn’t declared war on your car.
A place where you knew your taxes weren’t being wasted on reparations for minor attracted illegal alien transgendered cannibal animists on bail for gun crimes.
A place where you didn’t have to dream like this.
