I always thought Hamilton could have a really nice downtown, and they were going to have an LRT with the Move Ontario 2020 project, but it looks like that's in jeopardy.
My roommate trains the project manager for the LRT project and it seems like it's in good shape from speaking with the guy. It's just going to take a lonnnng time.
boogie said:
Fastest growing in the country between the 2001 and 2006.
100,000 people. 2 (maybe 3 now) pubs worth a damn. :-/
I grew up there, lived there for 18 years. The place is boring as fuck now, even moreso because everywhere you look is just subdivision upon subdivision. And boring brick-and-mortar stores in strip malls.
The Ivy Arms is retirees, alcoholics, and high school/underage kids on their way to university. Bryden's is where all the trashy people of Milton congregate -- it's like a highschool reunion of all the people who got left behind in that depressing dump. Ned Devine's is/was the only good spot to drink until some dibshit friends of mine decided to start a bar fight in there and have the place ban anyone under 25.
Seriously, as a Hamiltonian going on 5 years now, I say
fuck Milton. That place is so bland now. And it's expensive as all hell to live there. I can see raising a family there, especially if you're taking the GO to commute to a major city/industrial centre, but otherwise, I can't understand why someone would want to live there.
I'll always have a soft spot for what it was, and I loved growing up there, but it's just depressing to think of what it's become. Next thing you know they'll be blasting the Escarpment with TNT to make room for more suburban sprawl.
