Toronto is a city with many suburbs that merged into 1 city, they include Scarborough, York, East York, North York, Etobicoke and the original Old Toronto. This makes up the city with 630sq km and 2.9 million people with 6 boroughs. Toronto subway system, Streetcar, and busses all operate in Toronto as the TTC. They all cost the same price (roughly $3 for 2 hours of unlimited transit usage, or a flat rate 1 month pass), and can be used by PrestoCard. Busses and trains travelling further then this into the many other further away surrounding suburbs outside of this are connected with trains like GO Train, GO Busses or the suburban own towns public busses. They also can be used by PrestoCard, but the prices change depending how far you travel each day. But for example it might cost you $7 for 1 way to reach a suburb that is 35km distance from Downtown Toronto and is a 35 minute train ride. Or a further town that is 55km away is 1 hour train ride and might cost $10 for a 1 way ride. Vancouver population is 630,000 Land 114sq km. However because Vancouver never merged with any surrounding areas like Toronto did, it's not a complete fair comparison. If Vancouver merged with 5 other areas it would look more like this: Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey. Vancouver 1.7 million Land 683sq km The big difference however is Toronto continues to vastly continue further outwards then Vancouver does. Vancouver greater area eventually drifts off into the peace and quiet while Toronto suburbs and smallish cities continue to keep developing far outside of the city. Next to Toronto is Mississauga with 828,000 , just North of that is Brampton with 603,000 next to that is Vaghan 323,000, Oakville 195,000 and it continues on and on. With the Greater Toronto area easily reaching out towards 6 million people, or even 8-9 million if you continue even further outwards to cities like Hamilton or Kitchner exc. That is in part why different public transit and prices exist further outside of the city of Toronto. It's simply a very large area.
i gotta say it seems pretty spot on to me. i think it's possible to really appreciate both cities but everyone has to pick one. the reality of Toronto is, there is a ton to do outdoors between the lake, the beaches, the Don Valley, the amazing parks and ravines and the small ski hills and great cottage country a few hours away, so outdoor activities is like a 7/10 compared to most cities. Vancouver though is a 10 or 11/10...
@sivan ferna you ever been to the Don Valley? High Park? Toronto Islands? The Beaches? All the ravines scattered throughout the city? The Humber? Scarborough Bluffs? One of the hundreds of parks? Sure it's not North Van or West Van but how many cities in the world that are bigger than tiny-ass Vancouver have outdoor life better than Toronto?
What up with the renting in Van is costlier than TO, when I checked in canada official site for renting avg cost in TO and Van is literally the same (with + or -5% in both cases) and TO has double the utilities cost than Van. And the minimum wage in Van is 14.8 cad(said to increase to 15.2) and in TO its just 14.2 cad. So why is it people saying its costlier in Van??????????? I'm planning to do my masters and found both cities interesting, but I'd love to save some money too?? This is one of the site I've checked and all of them shows similar results www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&city1=Toronto&country2=Canada&city2=Vancouver&displayCurrency=CAD
Thank you for the video. As a filmmaker I want to develop my career, may I ask which city is better? I know Pinewood studio is near Toronto but many say Vancouver has better job opportunities in film industry. I'm quite confused.
Both cities have film industry jobs, however, Vancouver will be more dominant. At least friends I know who work in the industry usually head to Vancouver for TV series productions.
Toronto is better for reality, docs, and lifestyle, there are so many companies super close together and once you're in if you're good you'll always have work. V is better for film and larger budget TV, bc you get a lot of American patronage. I worked in TV in TO for many years and there was always opportunity, but it's very incestuous too.
@@124068480 Haha! It's a word that's used, aside from in its original meaning - which I'm not talking about here, haha - to mean very intertwined, joined together, even where inappropriate. So people are pretty much up in each others' business, everyone knows each other once you've been there for a bit, you work at one company and then another and then back at the first again, usually with a lot of the same people in between. I think it's because working in TV is insane, so there's a pretty high turn around at the entrance to mid levels, and then there are the people who make it through that part, don't lose their minds or souls (or in many cases lose both but stay anyway) and stick around forever, lol. Lots of drama, lots of potential friendships, lots of backstabbing and betrayal by people you think are your closest friends for opportunity. It's a very sobering thing when you realize someone's stolen your idea for a show and run with it, or lied about you to get you fired so they can have more of the budget in wages. That crap happens a lot. But there are also some real gems too. You have to be pretty thick skinned, and imo, semi-psychopathic to succeed emotionally in this biz. It can be incredibly fun, but for every fun moment comes another that is incredibly stressful. It can be all consuming if you let it, long hours are the norm. Definitely be a writer, director or on set person - like camera, sound, lights, if you want to avoid SOME of the above. Avoiding all of it is impossible, lol!
Toronto is a BIG city. TTC is the city’s local transit of buses, streetcars and subways. GO transit is the Regional Transit System that provides service of trains and buses from Toronto to suburbs outside of the city. Toronto also has buses coming from York Region, Mississauga, Brampton and Durham Region.
for someone moving there this in unnecessarily complicated in places like B.C there is just one transit system for the whole province. and you just pay for a ticket not the distance. way cheaper and much more simple. Toronto however gives more options and seems to be faster due to more departure times on average
I live in Vancouver.A couple things. Restaurant food in TO will actually be more expensive than Van since Ontario has 14% HST tax that gets charged onto restaurant food. In BC you only pay a 5% gst on resto food. TO has seen a big uptick in crime the past few years, especially gun crime. Whats up with that. I heard the girls are prettier in TO compared to Van. But its in Montreal that has the most good looking girls. & I lived in Montreal for studies so I know.
Toronto is a city with many suburbs that merged into 1 city, they include Scarborough, York, East York, North York, Etobicoke and the original Old Toronto. This makes up the city with 630sq km and 2.9 million people with 6 boroughs.
Toronto subway system, Streetcar, and busses all operate in Toronto as the TTC. They all cost the same price (roughly $3 for 2 hours of unlimited transit usage, or a flat rate 1 month pass), and can be used by PrestoCard. Busses and trains travelling further then this into the many other further away surrounding suburbs outside of this are connected with trains like GO Train, GO Busses or the suburban own towns public busses. They also can be used by PrestoCard, but the prices change depending how far you travel each day. But for example it might cost you $7 for 1 way to reach a suburb that is 35km distance from Downtown Toronto and is a 35 minute train ride. Or a further town that is 55km away is 1 hour train ride and might cost $10 for a 1 way ride.
Vancouver population is 630,000
Land 114sq km.
However because Vancouver never merged with any surrounding areas like Toronto did, it's not a complete fair comparison. If Vancouver merged with 5 other areas it would look more like this: Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey.
Vancouver 1.7 million
Land 683sq km
The big difference however is Toronto continues to vastly continue further outwards then Vancouver does. Vancouver greater area eventually drifts off into the peace and quiet while Toronto suburbs and smallish cities continue to keep developing far outside of the city. Next to Toronto is Mississauga with 828,000 , just North of that is Brampton with 603,000 next to that is Vaghan 323,000, Oakville 195,000 and it continues on and on. With the Greater Toronto area easily reaching out towards 6 million people, or even 8-9 million if you continue even further outwards to cities like Hamilton or Kitchner exc.
That is in part why different public transit and prices exist further outside of the city of Toronto. It's simply a very large area.
1:37 I got a Presto Transit Card when I visited Toronto and it pretty much works on all transit there.
I wasn't born in any of them but lived in both of them.. Vancouver is my love FOR-EVER.. 🕊️
i gotta say it seems pretty spot on to me. i think it's possible to really appreciate both cities but everyone has to pick one. the reality of Toronto is, there is a ton to do outdoors between the lake, the beaches, the Don Valley, the amazing parks and ravines and the small ski hills and great cottage country a few hours away, so outdoor activities is like a 7/10 compared to most cities. Vancouver though is a 10 or 11/10...
@sivan ferna you ever been to the Don Valley? High Park? Toronto Islands? The Beaches? All the ravines scattered throughout the city? The Humber? Scarborough Bluffs? One of the hundreds of parks? Sure it's not North Van or West Van but how many cities in the world that are bigger than tiny-ass Vancouver have outdoor life better than Toronto?
What up with the renting in Van is costlier than TO, when I checked in canada official site for renting avg cost in TO and Van is literally the same (with + or -5% in both cases) and TO has double the utilities cost than Van. And the minimum wage in Van is 14.8 cad(said to increase to 15.2) and in TO its just 14.2 cad. So why is it people saying its costlier in Van???????????
I'm planning to do my masters and found both cities interesting, but I'd love to save some money too??
This is one of the site I've checked and all of them shows similar results
www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&city1=Toronto&country2=Canada&city2=Vancouver&displayCurrency=CAD
Love Vancouver!
Great vid great quality great info thanks man
This video is 3 years ago, can't imagine Toronto home price is more expensive than Vancouver now...
Thank you for the video. As a filmmaker I want to develop my career, may I ask which city is better? I know Pinewood studio is near Toronto but many say Vancouver has better job opportunities in film industry. I'm quite confused.
Both cities have film industry jobs, however, Vancouver will be more dominant. At least friends I know who work in the industry usually head to Vancouver for TV series productions.
Toronto is better for reality, docs, and lifestyle, there are so many companies super close together and once you're in if you're good you'll always have work. V is better for film and larger budget TV, bc you get a lot of American patronage. I worked in TV in TO for many years and there was always opportunity, but it's very incestuous too.
@@Ela.elizabeth Thank you for the info! But incestuous how? That's a pretty heavy word 😂
@@124068480 Haha! It's a word that's used, aside from in its original meaning - which I'm not talking about here, haha - to mean very intertwined, joined together, even where inappropriate.
So people are pretty much up in each others' business, everyone knows each other once you've been there for a bit, you work at one company and then another and then back at the first again, usually with a lot of the same people in between.
I think it's because working in TV is insane, so there's a pretty high turn around at the entrance to mid levels, and then there are the people who make it through that part, don't lose their minds or souls (or in many cases lose both but stay anyway) and stick around forever, lol.
Lots of drama, lots of potential friendships, lots of backstabbing and betrayal by people you think are your closest friends for opportunity. It's a very sobering thing when you realize someone's stolen your idea for a show and run with it, or lied about you to get you fired so they can have more of the budget in wages. That crap happens a lot. But there are also some real gems too.
You have to be pretty thick skinned, and imo, semi-psychopathic to succeed emotionally in this biz. It can be incredibly fun, but for every fun moment comes another that is incredibly stressful. It can be all consuming if you let it, long hours are the norm.
Definitely be a writer, director or on set person - like camera, sound, lights, if you want to avoid SOME of the above. Avoiding all of it is impossible, lol!
@@Ela.elizabeth Good to know! That's very helpful, thanks a lot!
The last point you made about grey and gloomy that’s exactly what it’s like in Vancouver too
I have worked in TO for over a decade now and I have never heard a single one of those slang words.
Toronto is a BIG city. TTC is the city’s local transit of buses, streetcars and subways. GO transit is the Regional Transit System that provides service of trains and buses from Toronto to suburbs outside of the city. Toronto also has buses coming from York Region, Mississauga, Brampton and Durham Region.
for someone moving there this in unnecessarily complicated in places like B.C there is just one transit system for the whole province. and you just pay for a ticket not the distance. way cheaper and much more simple. Toronto however gives more options and seems to be faster due to more departure times on average
Is Metro Vancouver’s transit system privatized?
Flatbush Canada, tell me one famous person that's from Vancouver, we got drake The Weeknd and even Lilly singh
@@JamaicaLefferts I dont think so but I cant say 100%. would be interesting to know yea
@@Ali_Abdurahman hahaha Seth Rogan, Ryan Reynolds, Lil Tay, Pamela Anderson, Michael Buble, Nardwuar, Matty Smokes, Terry Fox....
Amazinnggg man, and Toronto all the way ❤️❤️
I live in Vancouver.A couple things. Restaurant food in TO will actually be more expensive than Van since Ontario has 14% HST tax that gets charged onto restaurant food. In BC you only pay a 5% gst on resto food. TO has seen a big uptick in crime the past few years, especially gun crime. Whats up with that. I heard the girls are prettier in TO compared to Van. But its in Montreal that has the most good looking girls. & I lived in Montreal for studies so I know.
Toronto is where you go to work. Vancouver is where you go to retire.
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