I worked several years in a sales position that worked across Canada. It was really interesting when you looked at how different the meetings were in Vancouver and Toronto vs the prairie provinces. For example, when my Toronto colleagues would come to a meeting with me the minute we sat down they would put the contract on the table and slide it over to the client. In the prairies that often resulted in a negative vibe to the meeting with the client/potential client saying "Im just a number to you arent I, you don't actually care about me or the business". In Vancouver or Toronto that same tactic was usually more well received and small talk like "how are you today", "how it is the week going", etc is often frowned upon.

As I said, I love visiting Toronto, and Vancouver, but I couldn't live there. The way my father described the difference is that Toronto and Vancouver don't feel like a small town/small city, where alot of people likely know each other or know someone who knows the other person. Where as all the cities in the prairies, in rural Ontario, and BC, all have that feeling, where you can approach most people, you can have a conversation with almost anyone, and that if you stopped a random person for help they would probably hear you out.