MangoCon Is official!
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@scottalanmiller said:
You say "tolls". What are they actually? Cop shake downs?
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@MattSpeller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
I know it's over 4 months late, but the route through Canada takes you on the 407ETR which is stupidly expensive.
I made a trip to Michigan and Back and ended up paying over $75 in "tolls"
407 at rush hour is worth 10 times what it costs. If you doubt me, please take the 401 and enjoy
The 407 is like 5 miles long..
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I have no choice but to fly, I think the drive for me would be close to 26 hours. Can't take off enough to cover 2 travel days each direction.
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Looks like I might be able to make it. And my company will probably pay for it
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@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
I know it's over 4 months late, but the route through Canada takes you on the 407ETR which is stupidly expensive.
I made a trip to Michigan and Back and ended up paying over $75 in "tolls"
407 at rush hour is worth 10 times what it costs. If you doubt me, please take the 401 and enjoy
The 407 is like 5 miles long..
10 miles / 16km, but yes, my comment above stands.
The 401 is one of the widest and busiest highways in the world.
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Yeah but coming from Boston or Rochester you'd take the 403, not the 407.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yeah but coming from Boston or Rochester you'd take the 403, not the 407.
Eeeeuuggghhhh hate the 403, had my first bad car crash on it.
You're right though, there's no reason to go over Toronto.
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Or anywhere near Toronto.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Or anywhere near Toronto.
what's wrong with Toronto? i really liked my visit there 10 years ago.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Or anywhere near Toronto.
what's wrong with Toronto? i really liked my visit there 10 years ago.
It's not even close to the path that they need to take.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Or anywhere near Toronto.
what's wrong with Toronto? i really liked my visit there 10 years ago.
If you enjoy big cities I suppose it would be ok. It has amazing art, history, and all sorts of other things.
I found it very claustrophobic - just concrete everywhere. No trees. No real sky you'd want to look at. Humans everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Never any privacy or real way to be alone.
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That's so funny - you say no trees.
I just remember I thought I was driving into Kashyyyk - from the interstate driving into Toronto, we were on a hill top driving down into the city and it looked like nothing but trees, with a few building poking out here and there.
And the windmills everywhere - it looked awesome! but then I was only there for 2 days before moving onto the shithole that was Montreal.
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@Dashrender said:
And the windmills everywhere - it looked awesome! but then I was only there for 2 days before moving onto the shithole that was Montreal.
What don't you like about Montreal? It's my favourite North American city outside of Mexico. Great history, culture, waterfront, food, people are super friendly (if you don't mistakenly forget to let them know that you aren't from Ontario) and it is just so beautiful.
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Well like any major metro it has a bad side too. When I visited I was looking for cheap accommodations and as such landed in a bad part of town... Dirty sketchy...
Plus the people, watresses were rude because we didn't speak French.
I thought Toronto was a much more beautiful city, many more trees, etc.
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@Dashrender said:
Plus the people, watresses were rude because we didn't speak French.
Did you let them know that you were American like I mentioned above? I've never been treated rudely in any way anywhere in Quebec for being an Anglophone. But I am always as long as they think that I am from Ontario and am just being rude and not speaking French. You have to make sure that they know where you are from, then they love you.
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@Dashrender said:
Well like any major metro it has a bad side too. When I visited I was looking for cheap accommodations and as such landed in a bad part of town... Dirty sketchy...
That's not really an issue with Montreal so much
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I'm moving to Quebec in about four months... so we will give it a real test
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I reserved my room just now
