Friday, October 03, 2008

Toronto Life: Steeltown Revisited

Toronto Life: Steeltown Revisited: "How do you know when Toronto is too expensive to be hip? When the artists move to Hamilton. Our high-priced real estate is fuelling a growing exodus down the QEW. And it’s an entirely different migration from moving to the burbs. Hamilton—with its downtown-centred 19th-century layout, industrial heritage and fiery smokestacks—is as urban as it gets. Though it’s uneasily close to Toronto, it is not a satellite; it has an orbit of its own."

I thought this article was necessary to post, as I usually receive strange looks when I tell people I voluntarily live in Hamilton (and no, I'm not addicted to drugs, I don't litter, and I have running water and don't live in a shack). Plus, the pictures I've posted are from my neighbourhood (Within a five-minute walk). Doesn't look too slummy to me!


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