I had about a 10 year run where you could buy paradise. Good deal. Women were legends. Now, as others have summed up. They are all gone.
I had a long love affair not just with escorts but with Canada - especially Toronto and to a lesser extent Montreal. When I was a young man you could not walk two blocks downtown without encountering a policeman. Downtown was safe. I track a three mile radius around two key intersections downtown with spotcrime.com as I do wherever I travel. Robberies and assaults at all kinds of times are to the moon in downtown Toronto. The police drive around in cars now while the predators with guns and knives are on the sidewalks. Did anybody ever think about putting uniformed police and police decoys on the sidewalks? How about creating some traps for the bad guys. Most of these attacks and robberies have been near the backs of buildings or on side streets near parking deck entrances. Streets like Bellair and Yonge St just north of Bloor and those posh little laneways between Cumberland and Yorkville Ave. have seen crimes increase. Indecent exposures are all over Toronto and could be crushed by using police decoys.
Canadian border guards have become very rude and abusive in the past few years. If I have not committed a crime in the previous 50 years why would I start now? If flying, it costs less to travel to California or Florida than the shorter distance to Toronto or Montreal.
Renting a great condo for long weekends is gone now, the concept ruined by partying thugs with guns. I empathise with condo owners who do not want strangers in their midst but I cannot buy a weekend condo without paying a huge ripoff tax while Canadian snowbirds are welcome to buy anywhere in the US. A well known Toronto condo style hotel expects you to stay there without a guaranteed parking spot. They must have sold off parking spots to raise cash. I am not going to walk three blocks from a desolate parking deck. I am not comfortable being forced to eat every meal in a restaurant setting in a crowd if I stay in a conventional hotel or calling room service for every snack.
Many of my favorite escorts are either on hiatus or have put passwords on their emails without informing me. Mugabe is on point. Escort prices are up like a gallon of gas in a hurricane. So many of the best are staying home or seeing only local regulars.
I am fully vaccinated but nobody would want to get even a flu-like break-through infection far from home.
Have you heard of any Canadian politicians ever talk about investigating the role of organized crime in fixing the costs of asphalt, concrete, contruction materials, and union wages? How much influence does it take to get any major project approved? Maybe these factors have more impact than a few Americans who would like to buy a weekend condo or cottage. All foreigners combined made up about 3% of Canadian real estate purchases.
Canada has become a giant real estate office with a bunch of public and private players who have decided that real estate speculation requires less imagination than creating real business innovation. Is Toronto a ripoff with only Canadian speculators and their enablers allowed to do he ripping? The whole town is in a rat race to pay their rents. I just read a story about a near broke TO restaurant owner who just got hit with $3000 in parking fees that accrued during a time when his restaurant was closed and no customers used those spaces. The town is devouring entrepreneurs instead of helping them. I know escorts must raise prices just to live in TO. Beautiful women and legal cannabis could be a home run. Cannabis has been over taxed and over regulated just like real estate. Truly great gambling casinos would be a home run. You can't support a modern country by taxing drilling and extractive industries and logging and tourism. You have a young high quality work force that can't afford to buy the house they grew up in. Even some escorts I know have moved to California. Your wages are too low relative to the cost of a home.
If you think about it just about everything negative in Toronto right now is tied to this real estate treadmill to the sky and the COVID issues we all need to work through. Your living standards are being reduced by over investing in and over taxing and over regulating real estate. You are under investing in high tech and innovation and business creativity. Your global lead in legal cannabis has been destroyed and pissed away by over regulation. Your politicians have no policies to increase real estate supply and to raise real wages for Canadians. Your taxes on hotel rooms are too high. The time when you can just tax and pass it along is over. When COVID cases do come down I may consider other places to hobby. Montreal? California?
I know Trump started a lot of the hard feelings between the US and Canada but many of us did not vote for him. Like a long and loving romance gone bad, I am very close to thinking about a divorce from Toronto.