My wife grew up In Toronto. She lived there until age twenty two. I drove monthly there for two years to visit her in the North York region for 3 weeks at a time as I was from western New York. We had a mostly a live-in relationship at her Mom's condo in Toronto those years, before we snuck out one night without her mother noticing, after my future wife's bags were packed, crossing the border to get to my place in New York to get married, living there then for eight years before moving to the northwest part of Michigan.
She and I went to so many relaxing and fun places in Ontario those few years before marriage, to not have to deal with her cold, controlling, materialistic and critical Mom. People think Toronto is just loud, with tons of cars and people, with big buildings everywhere, but we found tons of parks and quiet nature places there to hang out, too. I didn't mind driving her around to find all those places, and as she knew the whole area well. I was shocked by the price of gas, store items, and housing there then though, as I was used to prices much lower across the border.