Comment 39543

By More roads (anonymous) | Posted April 07, 2010 at 15:37:27

When you include regional spending, Burlington spent $2,536 per person on government goods and services, excluding social service costs. On the other hand, Hamilton only spent $1,998 in 2008. How is it possible for Hamilton to ever compete with Burlington in terms of quality of life, if we aren't willing to pay what they do? In other words, should we be surprised that people think Burlington is a nicer place to live than run down Hamilton?

To put into perspective what an additional $250M dollars every year would do, the entire red Hill Expressway was built for around $220M. Until Hamilton figures out that it takes money to keep a city in good working order, we will remain the "dollar store" of cities, appealing to those who like buying things cheap.

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