Direct game is easy as hell in places where girls aren't used to it if you dress decently and do it in a confident manner.
Its way harder in Toronto though, especially in the Eaton Centre.
There have been days where I have seen more pickup dudes than hot girls in the Eaton Centre!
I think girls who live in downtown Toronto are aware of how much pickup goes on. There are dozens of puas in Toronto and lets say if 30 puas approach 1,000 girls each in the main core of Toronto it means that 30,000 girls in downtown are already expecting a guy to try pick them up. Considering 1 in 4 girls in the age group of 18-25 are cute enough to hit on that means girls in Toronto are used to being hit on.
http://www.toronto.ca/demographics/pdf/2...h_maps.pdf
Check out table 2 on page 5. The number of girls age 15-24 age group that I and most other young dudes hit on is 159,000.
The number of girls in the age group of 20-29(which is the main demographic for pickup guys who are older) is almost 188,000.
Number of girls in the age group of 19-29 is 259,000.
Now if we look at my age group and presume that me and my two friends have done 1000 approaches(very reasonable considering we can do 10 in a day and we go out 4-5 days a week for the last 8 months). That means in our target demographic we have approached 3,000 out of 159,000 girls that live in the downtown core. Obviously thats not accurate considering that a lot of the girls we opened were tourists. But it gives you an idea of how just three guys can instantly raise the egos of 3,000 women(maybe temporarily).
Now if we assume that 30 puas in Toronto have done a 1000 daytime approaches eadch on 259,000 women(of which lets say 45-50k are attractive) then women in Toronto are very familiar with guys approaching them in the daytime. The girls who are friendly are usually tourists or new to town. Toronto is the home turf of game and there are a huge number of pickup dudes here, a lot of whom creep women off.
This means half of all attractive women would have been approached in the daytime over the past few years. Many of them multiple times because they are attractive(Most approaches are done on the subset of girls that are really attractive). Combine that with the countless approaches they deal with during the nighttime and the advances of beta orbiters in their social circle and you can see why they are not really open to meeting guys randomly in the mall. They usually already have a lot of options.
Is it surprising at all that women have high bitch shields in Toronto?
This is why its important to focus your game on house parties and social circle game in Toronto. Roosh's day game model also does a good job at opening girls up here in Toronto(I haven't gotten beyond rambling and dropping a bait or too). Going to parties is just a better idea and the girls are usually very friendly and open to meeting guys since you already have social value just because you're there. Night game works too from what I've heard but I dont' have that option right now because I don't have a fake id.
I know I burned hundreds and hundreds of sets into the ground as a learning process, and in a citu with a large number of puas it can actually make a difference and tilt the dating market(especially with direct game). I'm careful about direct game now unless I feel supremely confident and in the moment.