I lived in YYZ for 17 years, I grew up there, so consider myself haLF English and haFF Canadian.
I have an "American" accent in England.
When people ask me what part of America I'm from, I scream CANADA!!!
You meet very few Canucks abroad, most are sane enough to realise what a beautiful place Canada is and stay home. Or they say "I'm just visiting" (There's an English equivalent, you meet very few people from Liverpool, they also don't bother with the rest of the world...
I still don't quite understand why I left (Well, I do, I moved to NY to work with a fashion designer friend as a fitting model and didn't make it because I didn't have a green card and wasn't willing to marry for one and because our backer pulled out (on April 1st, we were a tax write-off), so I came back home to England, having said byeeeeeeeeee to Toronto.
& I've never been back to TO, (although I've been all the way to BC 3x since), which is weird.
I still keep in touch with one old gay mate who lives in Richmond Hill and he keeps me updated about the people we knew who are still alive and suitably rocking. I've googled most of my old social aquaintances and they're still there...
I had a high powered job running a trendy magazine and went to all the Film Fest parties with a gold star and an incredibly gorgeous boyfriend. I was very young.
Moses Znaimer's party one night, Barbara Amiel's another, I partied with that lot. I thought Babs was coming on to me, I thought she was gay. I ran into her again here in London about 10 years later...
Rush were my high school band. Doubt any of them still have or ever had, the time or the inclination to work out though !!
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I still hope to come back and visit one day (whilst I still look healthy and youngish).
I also ought to sort out my Canadian pension... It'll be worth far more than my British one.
Sandy Stagg (another ex-Torontontian) lives near to me in London, but I haven't responded to her Christmas card from last year, we fell out... She's not a lot of fun nowadays since she got really really old (I went to her massive 60th birthday party about 5 or 7 years ago) and she quit doing drugs and got into making millions. We were fun when we were young...