The Great East End Debate: Toronto Residents Clash Over City Borders
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With no clearly delineated borders on platforms like Google Maps, locals offer wildly different interpretations of where the city's East End begins and ends.
Toronto residents remain divided over the geographic boundaries of the city's East End, according to reporting from blogTO. Because platforms such as Google Maps do not provide clearly delineated borders for the area, the definition of the East End has become a subject of hyper-local disagreement.
In an effort to identify where the region starts, blogTO surveyed locals who provided a wide array of conflicting western boundaries. Some residents identified the starting point as the Don Valley Parkway, Main Street, Woodbine Avenue, or Leslieville. In one extreme instance, a resident placed the western border at University Avenue, a location blogTO notes is not even on the east side of Downtown.
The debate extends to the scope of the region, with residents questioning if the East End is limited strictly to Scarborough or if it encompasses broader neighborhoods such as The Beaches and The Danforth.