Ziggy points out that he hasn't been to a game at the SkyDome, and hasn't been up the CN Tower. He has that in common with most Torontonians, I'm sure. But others
have enjoyed these unique experiences you can find only in Toronto. Many other great features of this city are not for tourists,
per se. We are so fortunate that venues like the
Hockey Hall of Fame and
Ontario Place, which are not for tourists any more than for locals, are just so damn convenient for us. Let's be realistic, Toronto isn't heaven on earth ... but there are a lot of worse places to live.
It's typical that most residents of metropolitan cities overlook some of the best attractions their cities have to offer. Their choice, of course, but often their loss. Other people, just like them, spend lots of dough to travel to Toronto and enjoy these attractions, and we locals often miss out on the good stuff right under our noses. That's true everywhere, not just Toronto.
An interesting exercise, no matter where one lives, is to take a weekend and get to know your city from a
tourist's perspective. Grab a date, get a hotel room and go out on the town you haven't discovered, even though you've lived there all your life.
In the end, you create your own environment and find your own fun, wherever you happen to live at the moment.
GOIT is a fun little website that offers an interesting source of ideas about where to go in Toronto on a date.
Where do you find
your fun in T.O.?