Comment 64221

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted May 30, 2011 at 11:39:16 in reply to Comment 64215

One visit to the Spec’s goggle-eyed comments roll or dialing in the scruffy mental haze of the CHML signal is all it takes to find scores of Hamiltonians who’ve divorced themselves from the lower city entirely – to say nothing of the downtown core – all based on biases that date back to the 70s and 80s.

That's a little off...even though I agree heartily with the notion that many have 'divorced' themselves as you say. (Naturally, I'm inclined to point out the magnification of this via our beloved amalgamation...but that's as far as I'll go for now. LOL)

Despite how historical revisionists would love to look at the downtown as having been eviscerated as of The Debacle That Is Known as Jackson Square (or by its initial moniker), the fact is that downtown was doing fine through the 80s. I know, I lived there...and worked there, too. I was there when it all began falling apart, and even if you process things as 'the seeds were already planted', we had a few more 'good years' downtown than what you're suggesting. Why people would have biases developing in the 70s is beyond me. Twenty years later, however... Oi-friggin'-vey...

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