Big cities can be NICE! This might not be news to fellow Torontonians, but it is to the BBC, who recently expressed shock at the--well--
niceness of major Canadian cities. And even the major-est Canadian city (yes, that's us, Toronto) gets due credit, despite our r
eputation elsewhere in Canada of being less-than-loveable.
The
BBC writes:
Traffic in Toronto and Montreal may be awful, but “you almost never hear a horn, even in the most frustrating traffic jams”, said Jeffrey Dvorkin, a Canadian journalism professor at the University of Toronto. Horn-honking is regarded as unnecessarily aggressive. And murder rates in Canada are low, he said, partly because “it’s quite rude to murder someone”.
Read more
here.
Source: BBC.