Ahh you're in my city!! Sucks about your Airbnb experience, they're cracking down on that here more and more. You're so lucky you get to work internationally too - not too many places will allow that. I hope you end up checking out further north of Toronto where there's a tooon of authentic Asian restaurants, there's like a million different kinds of hotpot restaurants alone!
🤣I can tell you don't travel much if you're worried about being stranded in Toronto because it's "in a completely new country". It's not like you're in Yemen or something. It's a 1 hour drive to NY state.