Stop Pretending Toronto is More Than It Is

False claims of excellence exacerbate mediocrity, and make me feel sad inside.

A kind of person I really don’t want to be is someone who lives in a city, and spends all their time complaining about how it sucks, about how things are better in other places. I fear I may be becoming that person, and it makes me genuinely uncomfortable. I want to try and talk about this here. I live in Toronto. I’ve lived here a long time. At times I have loved it, at times not. Recently I’ve been struggling with what it means to have lived here a long time, about how it has shaped and continues to shape me, and, especially, about how I go about finding the people who are here who will…

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• Rikard Saqe

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