Personal Narrative: The City Of Downtown Toronto

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Toronto’s downtown core is an exciting and vibrant city. It is the most populated city in Canada and truly is an amazing place to live, work and study. Toronto is filled with great economic opportunities, multicultural diversity, and endless exhilarating things to do. It’s strong “sense of place” (Relph, 1997), is the reason I decided to study at Ryerson University.
However, due to the rapidly increasing population and lack of affordable rental and housing in the downtown Toronto area. I find myself in a situation where I am unable to live there, and I don’t have many other options to get to class. Taking an Uber or taxi is far too expensive and driving to school is too much of a hassle because of traffic, limited parking space, and high-priced

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