Its funny when people mock Vancouver

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If, as the makers of a new documentary claim, everybody hates Toronto, why does everybody live here? I mean, everybody who matters? . . . Vancouverites, people who spend a suspiciously Macbeth-ish amount of time protesting their calm, forgiving natures, turn positively apoplectic at the very sight of the word Toronto. I suspect this is largely because Vancouver is where failed Torontonians go to die. They have good reason to be bitter, stuck as they are, huddled and wet under the ass end of a mountain, forgotten and lonely, with only the faint hope of a devastating avalanche to get them through the night.
-- R.M. Vaughan, Globe and Mail, April 14