The Rockcliffe-Smythe Takeover

Rockcliffe-Smythe is a boring little nook and cranny of greater Toronto that surprisingly offers the usual opportunities for city-goers. Food, entertainment and things to spend ones money on frivolously, are in just as much quantity as you could reasonably desire. What it has more than many places  inside  Toronto, however, is greenery. Parks, pathways, rivers and creeks all lend themselves to an illusion that you are more than a short trip away from the busiest place in Canada. I prescribe this green bubble to be the saving grace of my time here in the city. With a mostly working-class family demographic, the streets never feel unsafe or particularly inhuman or riddled with " NPC syndrome ". The biggest threats to the Rockcliffe-Smythe public seem to be dumpster-diving raccoons and an early bedtime.  -photo of Black Creek, near Lambton Golf and Country Club While everybody tends to keep it on the low, finding eye contact or friendly chit-chat is achievable, more so than ...