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By jason (registered) | Posted March 10, 2010 at 09:47:17

great piece Michelle. Living in Hamilton's urban neighbourhoods, one has to come to grips with the fact that the civic administration can't be leaned on for any worthwhile change, so change must come from within - art crawls, small building renos, home renos, bylaw crawls, makers markets etc......

It would be easy to wake up everyday in Hamilton and automatically look at the glass as being mostly empty with a new day of parading transport trucks being allowed to use our front stoops as their own personal expressway instead of using the multi billion expressways we've built for "them". Or the lack of good shopping, lack of walkable streets, lack of good coffee (open past 10pm?? consider yourself lucky if you've got such a place in your hood - past 5pm would be a massive breakthrough in most of the city).

It might take some willpower, but I agree with you that we should try to see the glass as slowly filling up. Veeeerrrrryyy slowly. The grass is always greener somewhere else, but an afternoon spent wandering the RBG, Cootes Paradise, Websters Falls or the west harbour usually is all it takes to remind me that we've got it pretty good here.

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