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0 pointsbusterarm1y ago0 comments

Yes and no.

1/3 of the country's entire population is in the GTA. That brief moment is the most contact that Canadians will have with each other on any given day.

And they treat everyone worse than garbage. I've been in busier commuter zones that have been far more civil than that.

Even the drunks going home on the LIRR are better than that.

I won't disagree with you that Canadians are great people -- I spent a lot of time living there for a reason -- but you have to judge people by when their hair is down, not their Sunday best.

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FredPret1y ago· 2 in thread

Daily traffic at Union is 300k according to a quick google.

So the most annoyed 1% of Canadians go through there every day.

Not the world’s most rigorous basis for a sweeping statement about an entire culture.

busterarmOP1y ago

And yet if you go there at commuter times and spend 5 minutes just observing, I'm sure you'll feel the same way.

The funniest thing about the responses here to me is that not a single person has disputed the characterization I presented -- what I'm describing seems to be clear enough to everyone.

FredPret1y ago

I spent years commuting via that very station, and others like it in cities elsewhere in the world.

It’s just a whole bunch of stressed people in a hurry.

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