As Families Return Home, GTA Teenagers Begin The Difficult Transition From Doing Nothing In Florida To Doing Nothing In Toronto

By Andrew Scott

Rosedale - With the 2022 holiday season now over, but school still on Winter break until next Monday, tens of thousands of privileged Toronto teenagers are once again embarking upon that difficult annual transition from sitting around doing nothing in their parent’s winter home in Florida, to sitting around doing nothing in their parent’s city home in Toronto.

“As a society, I think we need to listen to the ‘radical honesty’ coming from this city’s teenagers who live in either Rosedale-Moore Park or the Annex,” says Dr. Sloane Tinsley, a Toronto-based adolescent psychiatrist. “I’ve had to hear countless difficult firsthand tales from teenagers who can’t even remember if they were mindlessly scrolling through TikTok on their Deep Purple iPhones 14 Pro Max while lounging around in their OVO sweats awaiting UBEREats deliveries in Naples Florida or Lawrence Park! I mean who can’t relate to that experience?”

When asked what would be different come next week, most Toronto teenagers interviewed had a vague notion that they would be getting up earlier before being driven to school, but seemed light on specific details.

Andrew Scott is a musician and writer who lives in Toronto in a house amongst children, antiquated technology of yesteryear and many, many instruments. Instagram, writing, poetry, more poetry.