This Sox
by sunnyfong
I had to be downtown this morning for a training session at Ryerson so I decided to pop into the H&M and try on a few things for fun. I had no luck except for a new pair of wool pants for winter (all mine are so stretched from my funemployment weight period). But when I was pantless, I noticed how silly my new £1 Topman socks looked.
Must be winter cuz daddy needs some moisturizer on those knees.
Back to work I go.
Chinese Work Ethic Sunny Fong 
You’re hilarious.
When you say “had to be downtown” – Don’t you live downtown?? I’m so confused. If you tell me you live in Vaughn or Milton or something, my mind will be blown.
Well, I live and work in Leslieville/South Riverdale. But some might argue that I don’t live in Leslieville due to the location but technically, I do live in the geographical boundaries. As you can see, I have a complex about it: am I in a gentrified neighbourhood or am I in India Bazaar?
Who am I?
I’m from Scarborough though. Just sayin’.
For all intents and purposes, you live “downtown”. Obviously we’re broken-up into neighbourhoods, but, really, it’s all downtown. You live on the east side. I wish we had better names like Manhattan. There “downtown” and “uptown” and “east side” mean something.
See, I’ve never considered that downtown at all. Downtown to me is anything west of Sherbourne. I’ve always considered “downtown” as the core. I’ve had this debate with people. No one ever says in the east end, oh I live downtown. Because then we’d consider The Beache downtown.
I guess.
It’s because Toronto is so sprawling. I think of the downtown boundaries as Roncesvalles to Leslie? And up to Eglinton. And, really, I only mean this as a way of describing it to people who DON’T live here. If you live here, you can say “I live in Riverdale.” or “I live in the Junction.” and we know what that means. But if my Mom was explaining to someone that I live in Toronto, she can say downtown if within those limits. Haha.
Are we square, Sonny?
Well, I live east of Leslie. Ahem.
Ha!
Riverdale.
You wish. 😉