Adjei
Senior Member
There's more opportunities in the US and for a lot of jobs you can make more money.
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Another expat on UT. Recent too. It sucks losing so many Canadians to the US. Don't any real Americans show any interest in Toronto?
My spouse and I both immigrated from the US. I was actually raised in Texas, but I am told by various native Torontonians that they can't tell my origins from my accent (although I have been in Toronto several decades, so any original accent may have faded).There's got to be at least some Americans living in Toronto, but I'm sure it's hard to figure out who they are by accent alone.
There's got to be at least some Americans living in Toronto, but I'm sure it's hard to figure out who they are by accent alone.
I don't really think there's much of a Canadian accent. It's hard to tell the accent. It's not noticeable like the British accent or even Australian accent. We speak similar to Americans but there are more variations in the US like the Southern accent than here. Like of things in Canada, we find ourselves hard to differentiate from Americans and they overshadow us in everything. If a Canadian traveled abroad and they spoke, I think most people would assume you were American. I would assume that's why it would be harder for someone to tell exactly what the Canadian accent is. When I've gone to the States, people could tell that I had a different accent just couldn't figure out where I was from just from my accent unless I told them. Now there are certain groups like say black youth in Toronto who speak with a noticable accent when they are around each other and I find it's more influenced by Jamaican/Carribean culture.
The hoser accent is prevalent in some areas of the city and country. That's something that is unique to Canada.
The strongest Canadian Canadian accent I've heard in the GTHA are from people from Pickering.If you want to hear a distinctly "real" English Canadian accent, head to places like Wingham, Hanover, Clinton, Elmira etc. Also folks in K-W and Hamilton tend to have a slight variation on this rural Ontario accent. I have also heard it amongst the working class b&b Torontonians, esp those with a historically Scots-Irish/rural English background.