Comment 66186

By geoff's two cents (registered) | Posted July 14, 2011 at 18:41:59

My personal feeling is that this so-called "directive" has been taken way out of context. It was part of a registration package for a Gender Studies and Feminist Research Program, for which I imagine the majority of applicants would be women. Personally, despite my genuine affections for the lower city, were I concerned for a woman's safety, those areas aren't ones I'd primarily recommend for women living alone - unless one knows what one is getting into, or one is street-wise generally. These characteristics cannot of course be merely assumed.

To illustrate, my partner and I lived in a gorgeous building in the Durand neighbourhood (definitely among Hamilton's nicest), but she had some pretty unsavoury encounters nonetheless - among them a near sexual assault at the HAAA grounds, with me jogging nearby at that.

Having lived in both Durand and Westdale, though I'd personally prefer the former any day of the week, there's no question from our experience that Westdale would be the safer of the two for young women living alone.

Comment edited by geoff's two cents on 2011-07-14 18:44:44

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