27 Ways To Really Really Impress A Torontonian
Put your back into it.
November 04, 2014, 10:05 AM
September 24, 2021, 10:12 AM
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It is a well established fact that all Torontonians have their shit together all the time. So if you're looking to impress one, it's going to take a little more than a bag of candy and tickets to the fourteenth Expendables movie. No, you're going to have to put some work into it. But we're here to help you! Here are a few things that would genuinely impress a Torontonian.
1. Own a driver's license
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2. Ride a fixie
3. Know a lot about beer
4. Have spectacular eyebrows
5. Be Drake
6. Own and operate a bar, restaurant, or store that is also a working farm/ bowling alley/ cheese factory. Torontonians love it when two worlds collide.
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7. Show off your Leafs trivia
8. Be unfazed by winter
9. Be even more well traveled than them
10. Play an instrument that no one has ever heard of. Like the hurdy gurdy or something.
11. Spend lots of money on footwear
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12. Dress in entirely vintage clothing 24/7
13. Know any restaurant or bar in the city that anyone ever names
14. Be in on where the best shows are happening everynight
15. Say, "Who's Rob Ford?"
16. Live in a decently sized apartment, downtown, that you don't break the bank for
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17. Find a way around having to use the TTC in your day to day life
18. Be friends with someone who runs one of their favourite restaurants
19. Be able to afford to leave Toronto for a good part of the winter
20. Invite them over to your parents' cottage for a weekend
21. Live in one of the city's highly wait-listed co-ops.
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22. Own the warmest winter coat
23. Not know what Yorkdale Mall is
24. Be a champion at flip cup
25. Have an alternative haircut no one's ever seen before
26. Have a job in the Financial District
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27. Be working on your third Masters
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