Comment 70629

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted October 17, 2011 at 21:44:36

Move to Toronto if you want a six-figure salary. Move to Hamilton if you want to be able to afford living here.

We may have a lot of problems with poverty, but we also have (at least some) services to deal with it. We have a low cost of living and lots of working-class culture. There are much worse places to be poor. Part of having a good quality of life means not needing to be rich to achieve it.

Of course, while not everyone in Hamilton is poor. But we all see benefits - low-cost areas are really important incubators of all kinds of art and culture because people can afford to devote their time to painting, music or writing rather than working 80 hours a week at a crappy job to cover rent. This is a primary reason why areas like James North (or Soho, Haight-Asbury, Kreutsberg etc) take off, and why areas like them so often fail to maintain that sense of vitality once prices rise.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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