With each passing week, we recognize more common places and things from the Toronto area (and Vancouver, since we’ve been there for a nice long vacation).  This evening, a commercial came on and showed two people acting next to a car.  In the background, a green GO train passed by.  it was pretty cool, suddenly recognizing a location where you live and not having it be on the local news.  Not a big thing, but it really does make one realize you’re in a major location.  A place where people go to film for TV and movies.

I understand that a lot of filming goes on here as a replacement for NY.  Parts of the Spiderman movies were supposedly filmed in Toronto.  And some of the X-Men scenes at Xavier’s school was filmed at Casa Loma.  I’m looking forward to re-watching Spiderman 1 and 2 when the 3rd hits DVD so I can watch for local scenery.  How much fun would it be to see our apartment building (which we will no longer be living in by then) as Spiderman swings across the screen?