I will dead this thread with one true statement. Unless you live in LA, New York or Chicago...........your city/metropolitan area is not touching Toronto (which is where 90 percent of the Canadian posters here are from). Toronto or the GTA is probably more American and Americanized than 95 percent of American cities, and is a bench mark of what a dream US city should be like. It's ironic, but true. There's literally nothing here that you don't have in pretty much any American city. Toronto is like the utopnian American city in a lot of ways
Population
Night Life/bytches
Shopping
Food
Things to do
Culture from all around the world
True Freedom
Liveness and buzz
Safe/Clean, yet still booming
The whole "obsessed" with America thing is a bit short sighted and sounds uneducated/generalized to the max. Canada/US share the the same continent/land and came up as countries around the same time, so of course it's intertwined. There is more similarity in culture between Toronto and any North Eastern large American city like NY, Boston, Philly, Chi than there is between NY and Phx, or Boston and Atlanta etc as examples.