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+1 about the savagery.
Imo the problem with the West Coast, if you have family / friends you want to keep in touch with, is its a really long way.
NYC is 5hrs time difference and is a short inexpensive flight away. Plus there are lots of easily reachable cool parts of the country.
I haven't been to Toronto, but imo NYC is pretty different from London. The vibe and the pace is next level and as shit as the bad weather is, the good weather is soooo much better. There are other things that smash it, snowboarding within a few hours in winter, a proper sandy beach a subway ride away (nicer beaches if you travel a bit). Cities like Boston, Philly and Washington a cheap bus ride away.
I'd love to live here longer, but honestly it's not somewhere I could live long term. Cost is a pretty big factor in that though... imo its not an exaggeration to say you probably need a combined household income of +$200k to have a good quality of life over the long term (by good I literally mean good, not especially high).
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It's less about the length, more about the absolute savagery. Here you can do the same things all year round, like ride a bike, swim in an outdoor pool, go for a run in just a t-shirt...only under exceptional circumstances do those things get ruled out by the winter.
In Toronto that's not the case - the weather changes what you can do.
Also Ice Storms are fun until people start dying from using their BBQs indoors to warm their houses.
Both Toronto and New York strike me as 'other Londons' but with more bonkers weather and less green space. Get to the West coast for something completely different.