BT what was your 'crazy business endeavors' !? putting 40k in some stock?
what is so special about you for you to expect to be a millionaire in Toronto ? you are not a doctor, not a lawyer, not an investment banker or in finance , or.... you are not even an skilled worker (try finding plumbers and electricians for 100$/hr these days), you are just some avg guy in the saturated IT field - a field that is easiest to outsource. Even then I have people in my e-biz team pulling easy 80k a year.
Toronto is now home to over 150,000 iranians, majority of them are in affluent parts of the city. You can even find great number of Iranians in areas like leaside, bridlepath, bayview hills, rosedale, annex, king city, oakville by LS, old thorn hill, etc....(nothing in forrest hill yet) they are tons of them living in multi million dollar homes like kings and only jews are in greater rates in these areas. Most of these folks do not come from old money - they are self made (more recent Iranians come here with tons of stolen cash from the old country).
I have many many iranian friends in toronto who did not have bus money when in school so they walked, and worked hot dog stands in cold, worked fast-food and delivered pizza later on for money - everyone of them (except for one individual who lost everything at casinos) are now officially worth a million dollars at least - and thats in their 30s !! They have large homes and cottages, nice cars and nannies and eat at the best restaurants and have the best wine and are always on trips to flordia and the islands. I know at least 20 from highschool and university years. one or two lost everything for various reasons and a couple of the others remained single and chose to enjoy a more low profile life with lot of travel - but they are not poor by any means.
There are projects worth hundreds of million of dollars owned by Iranians in toronto. Take a look at who owns majority of young and sheppard projects or world on young and etc....'Super khorak' in that shitty ghetto plazza is worth 16 million$ for gods sake !? Most of new medical complexes in Richmond hill and many of the new large businesses there are owned by Iranians including large print houses, car dealers, restaurants, child care centers, jewelers, (not all millionaires but are doing fairly well)......
even old school Iranian ladies working at winners and first joice cutters own nice homes in Richmond hill these days!!!! lol....how did all these people get there out of nothing!?
What patent ! lol... this is not sollicon valley and even if it was howmany will end up making millions!? you my friend didnt do as well as you should have perhaps, its not reflective of what opportunities the city can bring to folks, specially folks coming from nothing ! only US and Canada offer this to anyone - even now.
These people except for in US could not replicate any of the success or the living standard they are enjoying in any other part of the world, surely not in Europe and definitely not in that shithole tehran. I just came back from Europe where I still have most of my family and I know. I know cause many of them who are highly educated and affluent would have had 5 times the life they have there here.