Being in Toronto reminds me of a game of Sim City. Things are in the strangest of places, and the development of the roads, apartments, restaurants, power stations, and other facilities almost seem to be placed at random, with the newer areas showing a more organized design. The older you go in the city, the more convoluted things appear to be.

b5media’s offices are on Spaldina Ave, a street that isn’t right on the main roads, but has an interesting and diverse culture. You can see many smaller shops, as well as old brick buildings right across the road from new fancier brick, glass and steel buildings. IT is an interesting site, almost like the road separates two different towns.

With WiFi permeating the entire city, you would think I would feel more connected, but because the service is a pay service, and isn’t everything these days, I find myself looking around feeling like a tourist from another area of the world.

It is so much busier in feeling than Ottawa. Such high traffic levels, in the early afternoon, is insane to me.

There also feels like there is a strong dichotomy here. There are many people that don’t look well off, and then there are people driving around in the latest Audi’s and high cost BMW’s. Where are the middle class people? Maybe I don’t notice them as much as the poor and the rich.

There is also a strong odour in this city. It stinks like a big city. Pollution, cigarette smoke, and a bit of what smells like the paper factories of Cornwall, Ontario. That bitter, burning smell that many of the largest cities seem to have. Is it pollution as well, or smoke from a factory, I am not sure, but it isn’t the clean air that I am used to in St. Thomas.

I wouldn’t mind working here, but living here for an extended period of time feels like something I am less and less interested in doing.