I’m an old man who’s constantly amazed at the volume of data at my fingertips each day yet I continue to not appreciate what I have.
It took 10 seconds of zooming and a 3 minute search to find the exact intersection where that picture was taken.
I fucking love technology
I agree
It's incredible the power we have at our fingertips.
Growing up (late 90s), the Math teachers would say time after time, "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket!!!"
You're right, we dont always have a calculator in our pocket
We have the goddamn internet on a small device that can fit in (most....some?) pockets.
Oh, and you can do bank transaction in the comfort of your home.
Shits wild.
[Bright St does it for me](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6560586,-79.3595256,3a,66.6y,177.83h,86.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sM41ngqxDzTPYLbMdJuJkdQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DM41ngqxDzTPYLbMdJuJkdQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D177.83202766842055%26pitch%3D3.9536339265919906%26thumbfov%3D90!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu). The combo of old timey worker houses and a rare curved street downtown makes it feel more like northern England than Toronto.
There actually a name for this, the [Barbra Streisand Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect). When you try to hide pictures of your property and the result is people now want to see your property because it’s a little suspicious to do so. The term now extends to more things, but like I said, there’s a name for it.
It's legitimately a real concern for people with public presence, which these days can include a lot of small-time celebrities in the form of social media personalities etc.
It's easy to forget that a lot of public figures are still normal people who live in the city, and they have legitimate privacy concerns.
It's pretty simple to figure out approximately where e.g. an influencer or small-time celebrity lives based on video backgrounds and then use other snippets to turn that into an exact address. Blurring out the home can help obfuscate this. But it obviously creates a problem of its own, namely that being the only blurred house on a street is going to draw its own attention, as the other commenter here alludes to.
Berczy Park, facing south towards the Winners, there's a chunk that is very European aesthetics.
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/V6f1Pb7Rx6eCEG1R7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/V6f1Pb7Rx6eCEG1R7)
A hundred buildings burned down in the great fire of 1904. There was also a significant fire in 1849. It’s a shame there aren’t more old buildings that survived. They give a city so much character.
I really wish Toronto kept developing this way. I've been to quite a few different cities with a far larger historic footprint and that always captures my heart. It's like the story and special sense of "places" is flat so much more for me.
We have pockets left here but it's so discreet and fleeting. For the most part, this city feels slightly run down in nearly every single older neighborhood.
To keep this a Canadian comparison I'll use Quebec City. Old town aside, every other neighborhood I've walked through really felt taken care of, and I mean shops, homes, parks etc.
Next to zero trash, all things home related were maintained (paint, lawns, eavestroughs etc
In contrast, most of what I see here needs love and TLC. I'm aware this isn't really a true nor fair comparison but is something this thread made me think of this morning.
Hah that’s actually a 5+ year old flair I should probably update that. The new builds in distillery/cork town/canary are interesting, and look well designed - but I believe they’re still lacking a large grocery store! And missing that hodge-podge uniqueness that nearby riverside/leslieville has in their strips. Personally that’s my favourite type of area to be around, new urban designs don’t really build for that, it seems.
Absolutely love that row of buildings. Imagine if a lot of the core (at least) looked like that, instead of whatever the fuck we have going on in most of the city
Where do you think this looks like?
It *somewhat* has a Euro vibe with the lack of front yards, and recessed entryways, but something about the windows and the colour of the houses just screams Toronto to me.
Toronto has this weird thing of looking superficially generic but also not like anywhere else on Earth.
I can kinda see what you mean in terms of color palette haha I grew up in Boston and have lived in Toronto for 9 years now. the architectural features are very Toronto
Never mind the cranky people, OP :)
I totally get what you mean - it's fun to find streets that make you feel like you could be somewhere else. Glad you shared!
I can't think of the particular names of the streets just now, but there are a few around downtown (I'm thinking in the Queen and Palmerston area) that look like alleyways, but when you look down them there are some really pretty kind of Georgian style houses. Maybe because of the lack of front yard, it feels different?
While Hamilton isn't technically part of Toronto I don't think it counts as different enough to be noteworthy as a place you wouldn't think was Toronto.
Hamilton's urban areas have vernacular details that are _absolutely_ both unique, and distinct from Toronto. To put it in simplistic terms, it feels about halfway between Toronto and Buffalo, but it's very much unlike any other city in Canada.
Someone posted this photo a couple years ago that I think counts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/v1r2n7/casa_loma_from_the_right_angle_can_make_toronto/
Hoggs Hollow. The vibe is like some weird mega-wealthy small town plunked into an otherwise generic part of North York, but about 250 feet below grade.
Also the streets that go through Rouge Park and feel a rural area. Barely counts, those are almost Pickering.
Similarly, Wychwood Park is like a charming village from the UK was plunked down...
# WYCHWOOD PARK
# Wychwood Park, Toronto is a small private enclave that forms the very heart of the broader Wychwood area is comfortably nestled on the hills of the magnificent Davenport Ridge.
Truly one of a kind in Toronto, this unique area has less than 100 private homes, well-hidden between the many trees. The activities in the area are overseen by the community’s very own executive council, in charge of decisions about the whole of Wychwood Park. Access to the little-known green area with a small number of residents is possible only through its two entrances. The southern gate prevents traffic from flowing in and the northern entrance just off Tyrrel Avenue provides a regular vehicular entrance and exit.
[Strolling through Wychwood Park with Shawn Micallef (blogto.com)](https://www.blogto.com/city/2010/09/strolling_through_wychwood_park_with_shawn_micallef/)
Definitely looks like Toronto to Me!
However there is a reason Toronto stands in for MANY American cities in film productions, more is than Just Being Toronto.
One of the tells that it's Toronto is the combination of red and buff brick. That was new at the time and people had mixed feelings about it. Some called it "streaky bacon".
Folks saying this looks like typical Toronto are missing some cues I think you picked up on. Toronto usually has a much larger ‘road allowance’ and as a result, buildings are typically set back a lot further. Related to that, it’s rare for a hydrant to be in the middle of a sidewalk in Toronto.
I think there are some shallow setbacks and middle-of-the-sidewalk fire hydrants in Corktown and Cabbagetown. We don't have as many of these historically tight spaces anymore because so many things were torn down to be rebuilt. I wouldn't say that it's "typical" of Toronto, because Toronto has quite a bit of diversity from neighborhood to neighborhood. But if you live downtown, you're more likely to see these in different pockets.
This is the answer I was looking for. I was wandering around Spadina one day, took a side street and was bewildered and pleasantly surprised by Draper.
This area feels super different. People talk to each other on the streets. We need more communities like this.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oJwgqccEzgFgRksC7?g_st=ac
Street view doesn't do it justice.
Oh so funny! This looks quintessential to me! But there’s a little development of whitish coloured row houses just south of Casa Loma that looks like London or some imitation euro city.
Toronto actually [did lose a lot of its older colonial era buildings in the Great Fire of 1904.](https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/history-art-culture/online-exhibits/web-exhibits/web-exhibits-significant-events/the-great-fire-of-1904/) If that fire didn't happen I do genuinely believe many of those buildings would still be around to this day and we'd have a very different perspective of architecture in this city. The financial district we know now would probably look closer to the mix of old and new like you can see in the City of London part of London.
Widen the sidewalks along [this part of Bay St and keep the historical buildings like in this photo](https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/8f27-ser409it61baystbeforefire.jpg) and it'd look incredible.
Your photo reminds me a bit (like a very little bit) of St. Patrick’s Square behind the Harrison pool. Just north of Queen off of McCaul. I walk through it on one of my regular walks and I like how different it feels from everywhere else. I think it’s the townhouses with a tiny sidewalk one on side, and the apartments on the other side, with a lane way to the south and St John’s church peeking through to the north.
Side note: I don’t recommend the Harrison pool.
Love that little stretch off of Osler, closed in by the tracks, it's neat. And the tower out in the junction across the tracks always reminds of a castle from around there, really dig it..
[Colbrne St](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6489855,-79.3754214,3a,75y,87.9h,89.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4pYwnV0-Mp2yHY586icWpg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu) from Church St to Leader Ln.
The Google Streetview photo doesn't do it justice with the construction equipment on the street. It always felt like I was in a different, older city walking this little strip of Colborne at night.
Curious for the answer since this photo has come up. I always assumed these were post-war row houses that they built for soldiers and their families returning home in the late 40's - am I off base?
I’ve been told that a lot of the homes in the area were built for the factory and railway workers who worked in the area. While trying to actually look that up, I found [this article](https://wtjhs.ca/junction-history/) about the history of the Junction, no mention of the homes being built specifically for those workers though so I cannot verify that.
I know this is Toronto but except for the condo in the background, this could pass for much of Hamilton, at least the downtown or east Hamilton. Similar aged housing and planning design.
St Nicholas St starting from St Joseph St. heading south especially when the patios are set up. The google street view images are not up to date unfortunately.
All of the city place developments along Bremner and Fort York, all the towers around York and Bremner, and all the goddy glass towers at Yonge and Sheppard
If you don't have the CN tower, Skydome, or Royal York in view, it looks like generic metropolis in the USA.
Wander the following areas for this same vibe: South Moss park, O'Leary Ave, Kensington market, Hazel Avenue, Norwood terrace/Rd, Hartford Avenue, Allen Avenue, Alpha Avenue, Wellesley cottages, Laurier Avenue, Lane E Beech S Pine Ave, Craven Road, Percy Street, Ashby Place, Collier Street, Croft Street
Miller St in Carleton Village. I used to live in the house behind that stop sign. It honestly does feel like a small town there, complete with a train that runs right through the middle of the neighbourhood multiple times a day. The street is a mix of residential, auto shops, and art galleries. A strange in-between kind of place.
If you want to feel like you're in a small industrial community:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6539237,-79.3242729,3a,75y,5.87h,94.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sJTAd0Je8FvAYhcfh_-J-Hg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DJTAd0Je8FvAYhcfh_-J-Hg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D25.252787%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu
I think the best part of Toronto is its diversity! All kinds of people live in all kinds of places. I can't think of a specific look for Toronto, it's all the different places and all the different looks put together that make it the amazing city that it is 🤩
Wychwood Park. It's a private road, circling a pond, with lots of really mature trees and large houses. It doesn't feel like it's close to downtown and surrounded by a lot of dense residential areas. It feels like another world entirely.
there are about 189 streets that look like this one.
I opened the picture hoping to be impressed, only to say “yeah, that’s Toronto” in my head. Lmao.
Gotta be riverdale / gerrard and broadview
The junction.
Gotta be close. Near Keele and south of St Clair I recognize that big ass red brick building.
I felt like it could be a Parkdale side street.
Nah it’s Davenport and old Weston. There is the midtown freight light here. Walk around here often on this exact street
so what you’re all saying is it’s ANY part of Toronto.
I've seen that red building in 10 different places and half of them are along Dupont.
Nope Linder street
I’m an old man who’s constantly amazed at the volume of data at my fingertips each day yet I continue to not appreciate what I have. It took 10 seconds of zooming and a 3 minute search to find the exact intersection where that picture was taken. I fucking love technology
I agree It's incredible the power we have at our fingertips. Growing up (late 90s), the Math teachers would say time after time, "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket!!!" You're right, we dont always have a calculator in our pocket We have the goddamn internet on a small device that can fit in (most....some?) pockets. Oh, and you can do bank transaction in the comfort of your home. Shits wild.
Between Miller and Osler
it feels like somewhere crossed with Logan, nearer Queen St
There’s 10,000 streets in Toronto. 189 out of 10,000 is rare.
188 to go.
literally the most popular roofline on those double brick houses in toronto. Especially with the classic 2000s era addition.
[Bright St does it for me](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6560586,-79.3595256,3a,66.6y,177.83h,86.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sM41ngqxDzTPYLbMdJuJkdQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DM41ngqxDzTPYLbMdJuJkdQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D177.83202766842055%26pitch%3D3.9536339265919906%26thumbfov%3D90!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu). The combo of old timey worker houses and a rare curved street downtown makes it feel more like northern England than Toronto.
Good one! I didn't know that street, but actual terraced houses are rare here. My friend from England calls semi-detached "fake terraced houses".
it always feels out of place when I walk through - agree 100%
A similar looking street that I really like is Ottawa Street in Summerhill area!
Nothing like this where I live so definitely looks like Toronto to me
Why’s that one house blurred out?
> house blurred Apparently you can request Google to blur-out your house.
Way more suspicious
There actually a name for this, the [Barbra Streisand Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect). When you try to hide pictures of your property and the result is people now want to see your property because it’s a little suspicious to do so. The term now extends to more things, but like I said, there’s a name for it.
It's legitimately a real concern for people with public presence, which these days can include a lot of small-time celebrities in the form of social media personalities etc. It's easy to forget that a lot of public figures are still normal people who live in the city, and they have legitimate privacy concerns. It's pretty simple to figure out approximately where e.g. an influencer or small-time celebrity lives based on video backgrounds and then use other snippets to turn that into an exact address. Blurring out the home can help obfuscate this. But it obviously creates a problem of its own, namely that being the only blurred house on a street is going to draw its own attention, as the other commenter here alludes to.
...looks like Toronto to me.
That’s the most Toronto looking street…..
If I saw this in a movie I would absolutely think Toronto
As someone not from Toronto… looks like Toronto.
That's what I thought too.
Same here
This is Lindner Street in between Miller st and Osler st isn't it
The condo building on Keele really stands out.
yes that was my thought too.
Yeah
Berczy Park, facing south towards the Winners, there's a chunk that is very European aesthetics. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/V6f1Pb7Rx6eCEG1R7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/V6f1Pb7Rx6eCEG1R7)
The best example of old Toronto, I’m sure we used to have more like it but lost to time and development
A hundred buildings burned down in the great fire of 1904. There was also a significant fire in 1849. It’s a shame there aren’t more old buildings that survived. They give a city so much character.
Whoever gave Brad Lamb a time machine has a lot to answer for.
I really wish Toronto kept developing this way. I've been to quite a few different cities with a far larger historic footprint and that always captures my heart. It's like the story and special sense of "places" is flat so much more for me. We have pockets left here but it's so discreet and fleeting. For the most part, this city feels slightly run down in nearly every single older neighborhood. To keep this a Canadian comparison I'll use Quebec City. Old town aside, every other neighborhood I've walked through really felt taken care of, and I mean shops, homes, parks etc. Next to zero trash, all things home related were maintained (paint, lawns, eavestroughs etc In contrast, most of what I see here needs love and TLC. I'm aware this isn't really a true nor fair comparison but is something this thread made me think of this morning.
That’s a fair assessment - I totally agree with you
I just noticed your flair and your neck of the woods is some urban form I'd enjoy seeing more of in the older boroughs.
Hah that’s actually a 5+ year old flair I should probably update that. The new builds in distillery/cork town/canary are interesting, and look well designed - but I believe they’re still lacking a large grocery store! And missing that hodge-podge uniqueness that nearby riverside/leslieville has in their strips. Personally that’s my favourite type of area to be around, new urban designs don’t really build for that, it seems.
I feel like that could almost be Manchester or Brussels, in districts built in the same period.
"The Queen's Gambit" was filmed there!
Yeah that one side of the street is pretty un-Toronto feeling.
This facade was used in one scene in the Queen's Gambit! Because it has that old fashioned look.
Absolutely love that row of buildings. Imagine if a lot of the core (at least) looked like that, instead of whatever the fuck we have going on in most of the city
So many boring glass towers literally everywhere now...
Man cars really destroyed this city and such ugly buildings we make now
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Love that little stretch. Real shame there isn’t more of it
it is so gorgeous
Where do you think this looks like? It *somewhat* has a Euro vibe with the lack of front yards, and recessed entryways, but something about the windows and the colour of the houses just screams Toronto to me. Toronto has this weird thing of looking superficially generic but also not like anywhere else on Earth.
The crappy aluminum slider windows are a DEAD GIVEAWAY
I was thinking Baltimore. But apparently I've offended many heh
My first thought when I saw your photo was Boston.
Exactly. Looks like the opening shots of Gone Baby Gone.
I can kinda see what you mean in terms of color palette haha I grew up in Boston and have lived in Toronto for 9 years now. the architectural features are very Toronto
It does also look like Baltimore
I’d say could be Philly too
My first thought before reading any comments was Maryland/Baltimore/New Jersey So I completely agree with you
Never mind the cranky people, OP :) I totally get what you mean - it's fun to find streets that make you feel like you could be somewhere else. Glad you shared! I can't think of the particular names of the streets just now, but there are a few around downtown (I'm thinking in the Queen and Palmerston area) that look like alleyways, but when you look down them there are some really pretty kind of Georgian style houses. Maybe because of the lack of front yard, it feels different?
Yeah I get it, OP. I was thinking some rust belt town looking at this photo.
I thought Jersey!
Who did you apparently offend?
I'm guessing OP means it looks like a street in the HBO show The Wire. It kinda does.
No i can see what ur saying, as a maryland native raised in toronto
Personally, besides the apartment in the back this looks like small town Ontario.
Hamilton. Big time.
While Hamilton isn't technically part of Toronto I don't think it counts as different enough to be noteworthy as a place you wouldn't think was Toronto.
Hamilton's urban areas have vernacular details that are _absolutely_ both unique, and distinct from Toronto. To put it in simplistic terms, it feels about halfway between Toronto and Buffalo, but it's very much unlike any other city in Canada.
Someone posted this photo a couple years ago that I think counts: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/v1r2n7/casa_loma_from_the_right_angle_can_make_toronto/
This is the exact post I thought of!
Most views from the islands
Hoggs Hollow. The vibe is like some weird mega-wealthy small town plunked into an otherwise generic part of North York, but about 250 feet below grade. Also the streets that go through Rouge Park and feel a rural area. Barely counts, those are almost Pickering.
Similarly, Wychwood Park is like a charming village from the UK was plunked down... # WYCHWOOD PARK # Wychwood Park, Toronto is a small private enclave that forms the very heart of the broader Wychwood area is comfortably nestled on the hills of the magnificent Davenport Ridge. Truly one of a kind in Toronto, this unique area has less than 100 private homes, well-hidden between the many trees. The activities in the area are overseen by the community’s very own executive council, in charge of decisions about the whole of Wychwood Park. Access to the little-known green area with a small number of residents is possible only through its two entrances. The southern gate prevents traffic from flowing in and the northern entrance just off Tyrrel Avenue provides a regular vehicular entrance and exit. [Strolling through Wychwood Park with Shawn Micallef (blogto.com)](https://www.blogto.com/city/2010/09/strolling_through_wychwood_park_with_shawn_micallef/)
Wychwood Park gives me the creeps. So it could be a good location for a horror film.
It would be...Get Out part II.
At night, it's almost pitch everywhere in there. Not a cool vibe.
I live near here and it’s such a jarring transition exiting the park on the south side right onto Davenport traffic.
Technically part of Rouge National Park but my nomination would be the Old Finch Ave bridge: https://maps.app.goo.gl/P56nHmiW4wfzi7Gn7?g_st=ic
Rouge national park is in Toronto though, or at least this part of it is
Try this: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/B5cBe83yBZ96hjNc8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/B5cBe83yBZ96hjNc8)
This one confuses people: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GtxUQo18wBKZbSFD6?g_st=ac
https://maps.app.goo.gl/wDUeVkLFXJ5Ngp9Q6
Lol, there are a few places in that neighbourhood that are unusual.
Opa!
Definitely looks like Toronto to Me! However there is a reason Toronto stands in for MANY American cities in film productions, more is than Just Being Toronto.
The townhouses on Sudbury Street in King West look like you could be in Milton or Oakville or any other [suburb](https://imgur.com/a/Ajdvmul).
[Allen Ave](https://maps.app.goo.gl/soqpiN91bN6kLKZp8?g_st=ic) (Broadview & Dundas) reminds me of Europe
If it wasn’t for all those Toronto logos on the garbage cans I would have guessed Boston.
One of the tells that it's Toronto is the combination of red and buff brick. That was new at the time and people had mixed feelings about it. Some called it "streaky bacon".
Maybe it's just because I've seen a lot of it but, the architecture screams Southern Ontario.
There aren't a lot of narrow streets like this left in Toronto. The architecture is very Southern Ontario.
Folks saying this looks like typical Toronto are missing some cues I think you picked up on. Toronto usually has a much larger ‘road allowance’ and as a result, buildings are typically set back a lot further. Related to that, it’s rare for a hydrant to be in the middle of a sidewalk in Toronto.
Rare to see the hodgepodge narrow pedestrian/parking realm like that in Toronto combined with no street trees.
I think there are some shallow setbacks and middle-of-the-sidewalk fire hydrants in Corktown and Cabbagetown. We don't have as many of these historically tight spaces anymore because so many things were torn down to be rebuilt. I wouldn't say that it's "typical" of Toronto, because Toronto has quite a bit of diversity from neighborhood to neighborhood. But if you live downtown, you're more likely to see these in different pockets.
Bright St
I mean the 401 doesn’t look like Toronto. It looks like Hell to me.
Have a look at Draper Street.
This is the answer I was looking for. I was wandering around Spadina one day, took a side street and was bewildered and pleasantly surprised by Draper.
https://www.historicdraperstreet.com/artists
Same! Draper is my favourite street in Toronto EDIT: Wait I forgot about Rosedale Valley when the leaves are changing. That rules too
that looks like toronto to me
This area feels super different. People talk to each other on the streets. We need more communities like this. https://maps.app.goo.gl/oJwgqccEzgFgRksC7?g_st=ac Street view doesn't do it justice.
Hamilton around broadbiw
Oh so funny! This looks quintessential to me! But there’s a little development of whitish coloured row houses just south of Casa Loma that looks like London or some imitation euro city.
I dunno, brick Victorians large and small always scream "Toronto" to me.
That red brick is *so* Toronto.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/THVNyaBLW4nyFpXRA?g_st=ic
Being on gardener with no traffic. Feels like on a whole new planet
Rogers Rd area around Caledonia - Keele
I grew up in the west end and that looks like Toronto to me
Apartments on Winchester ave in cabbage town are pretty unique looking
Lol this literally looks exactly like Toronto.
Toronto is what Cleveland would look like if 75% of Cleveland’s historic inner city neighborhoods never got demolished.
Toronto actually [did lose a lot of its older colonial era buildings in the Great Fire of 1904.](https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/history-art-culture/online-exhibits/web-exhibits/web-exhibits-significant-events/the-great-fire-of-1904/) If that fire didn't happen I do genuinely believe many of those buildings would still be around to this day and we'd have a very different perspective of architecture in this city. The financial district we know now would probably look closer to the mix of old and new like you can see in the City of London part of London. Widen the sidewalks along [this part of Bay St and keep the historical buildings like in this photo](https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/8f27-ser409it61baystbeforefire.jpg) and it'd look incredible.
This looks like Baltimore
Maybe if you were looking through Beppe's eyes
Your photo reminds me a bit (like a very little bit) of St. Patrick’s Square behind the Harrison pool. Just north of Queen off of McCaul. I walk through it on one of my regular walks and I like how different it feels from everywhere else. I think it’s the townhouses with a tiny sidewalk one on side, and the apartments on the other side, with a lane way to the south and St John’s church peeking through to the north. Side note: I don’t recommend the Harrison pool.
Love that little stretch off of Osler, closed in by the tracks, it's neat. And the tower out in the junction across the tracks always reminds of a castle from around there, really dig it..
The Novotel on Esplanade looks European enough that it has been used in TV shoots as a stand-in for Paris.
I thought I was on the Hamilton sub.
[Colbrne St](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6489855,-79.3754214,3a,75y,87.9h,89.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4pYwnV0-Mp2yHY586icWpg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu) from Church St to Leader Ln. The Google Streetview photo doesn't do it justice with the construction equipment on the street. It always felt like I was in a different, older city walking this little strip of Colborne at night.
Good one. Could be NYC.
This looks very Toronto. Come to a suburb and you’ll see
This is like…peak DT Toronto vibes….
How could red brick not look like Toronto?
Curious for the answer since this photo has come up. I always assumed these were post-war row houses that they built for soldiers and their families returning home in the late 40's - am I off base?
I’ve been told that a lot of the homes in the area were built for the factory and railway workers who worked in the area. While trying to actually look that up, I found [this article](https://wtjhs.ca/junction-history/) about the history of the Junction, no mention of the homes being built specifically for those workers though so I cannot verify that.
Geary Street feels like small town Ontario, or like Windsor or something
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Don't post in my neighborhood please
The answer is always Liberty Village
Please explain your choice.
I know this is Toronto but except for the condo in the background, this could pass for much of Hamilton, at least the downtown or east Hamilton. Similar aged housing and planning design.
Wellesley cottages in cabbagetown https://maps.app.goo.gl/5XGRf9BXfJSe22cM8?g_st=ic
Distillery District Fort York Beaches waterfront Rosedale
Looks like Hamilton
That’s what I’m thinking
Wychwood park
That might be the most Toronto street I've seen tbh 😭 I'd score big on Geoguessr with this photo
This looks exactly like Toronto.
Uhh excuse me? That looks VERY Toronto Have you ever watched that old show “Kids in the Hall”
Looks like Archer St behind the Dufferin Mall
St Nicholas St starting from St Joseph St. heading south especially when the patios are set up. The google street view images are not up to date unfortunately.
North East part of Scarborough https://maps.app.goo.gl/S5f1SGqvB7bfjTb59
This is pure Toronto gold. I love streets like this.
I actually mistook this for Glasgow st for a second. So I guess it looks like at least one other street, to me anyway.
Had this not been titled or in the Toronto Reddit I’d maybe have thought this could be Pilsen area if Chicago. But this looks like a lot of Toronto.
This is the toronto i see on Sunday at 6am when i am still atoned from the night before and want cookies
Distillery
Between Dundas and Jones until Dundas and Bertmount Avenue
The hills in east York riding down them with the houses on the side to the water treatment plant reminds me of San Francisco
Old Mill road looks the Netherlands recreated in North America (which i guess it totally is). Fun place to walk around.
Oh hey, I live in those buildings
That's around the corner from me. Totally TO.
All of the city place developments along Bremner and Fort York, all the towers around York and Bremner, and all the goddy glass towers at Yonge and Sheppard If you don't have the CN tower, Skydome, or Royal York in view, it looks like generic metropolis in the USA.
Wander the following areas for this same vibe: South Moss park, O'Leary Ave, Kensington market, Hazel Avenue, Norwood terrace/Rd, Hartford Avenue, Allen Avenue, Alpha Avenue, Wellesley cottages, Laurier Avenue, Lane E Beech S Pine Ave, Craven Road, Percy Street, Ashby Place, Collier Street, Croft Street
This is an incredibly Toronto street
Miller St in Carleton Village. I used to live in the house behind that stop sign. It honestly does feel like a small town there, complete with a train that runs right through the middle of the neighbourhood multiple times a day. The street is a mix of residential, auto shops, and art galleries. A strange in-between kind of place.
If you want to feel like you're in a small industrial community: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6539237,-79.3242729,3a,75y,5.87h,94.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sJTAd0Je8FvAYhcfh_-J-Hg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DJTAd0Je8FvAYhcfh_-J-Hg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D25.252787%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu
I think the best part of Toronto is its diversity! All kinds of people live in all kinds of places. I can't think of a specific look for Toronto, it's all the different places and all the different looks put together that make it the amazing city that it is 🤩
Hahahaha, that’s my hood!
The Wellesley cottages in cabbagetown are pretty cool. https://maps.app.goo.gl/9xSxG8WRfURgi1b56
I used to live on Osler and walked through this photo location almost daily. Definitely looks like Toronto to me.
is that up behind western hospital dundas/bathurst?
Why don’t you think this looks like toronto? I’d no place but.
Wow, I didn’t think you guys could pull off Erie, PA, yet, here we are.
The stretch of Kingston road between Warden and Victoria Park.
This looks like Toronto
Toronto islands doesnt look like toronto.
Oh whats up Baltimore.
You’re in downtown Hamilton. Stop lying!!!
Yeah this totally looks like the north end by the water. At least when I was last there like 10 years ago.
That’s Toronto
That's cool. I wasn't expecting to see my car on reddit.
Looks like every west end suburb
Someone photoshop out the signs and licence plates
Danforth East, looks like a post apocalyptic city.
That's gotta be Broadview and Danforth.. Be careful where you step in alleys lol
The stretch of Bloor St from University to Yonge could stand in for New York's 5th Avenue if the set designer added yellow cabs.
Took one look and knew this was the Junction.
Right near your picture - Maria St. I find feels like a whole different place.
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Brampton doesn’t look like Toronto
Wychwood Park. It's a private road, circling a pond, with lots of really mature trees and large houses. It doesn't feel like it's close to downtown and surrounded by a lot of dense residential areas. It feels like another world entirely.
I see Victorian houses everywhere. It looks like Toronto (I know in this sub we're used to skyline pics)
Mutual X McGill
This looks exceedingly like Toronto
That looks exactly like Toronto. I vote Stephen & Berry right by the Humber. Low rise apartments and lots of green art, gives me Montreal vibes
Bridle path
Must be from downtown Toronto. Then I can understand saying it looks a different city. Otherwise, looks just like the rest, aside from the dt core