Raise the Hammer

Ryan with respect that statement is a load of crap not to mention condescending and elitist. I am a university graduate, with a double degree in history and religion. I'm also a tradesperson who started up his own business, (actually over the years several of them), and my business has nothing to do with my education. My education also largely has nothing to do with my entrepreneurial side.

My entrepreneurial spirit comes from a motivation to better myself and my family and indulge a bit of a creative bent with respect to renovation and construction.

If you are creative and entrepreneurial..... you're creative and entrepreneurial. Letters before or after your name have absolutely jackshit to do with it.

Your piece states that the numbers skew the fact that it is specific areas of Hamilton that house the largest caches of people that fall into those categories. I agree, and I know because I live in one of them.

Ironically its another article you penned that I think ties directly and indirectly to this fact. That is two way streets and livable streets. There is a definite socio economic divide in this city and it is a line of demarkation the runs north from sections fo King St, Wilson and Cannon Sts. There are of course pockets of little known gem neighbourhoods North of there but from Victoria east to Sherman is a perceived NO GO ZONE for many people in this city.

I would contend that by pounding away on the powers that be to effect change at city hall, wresting control from the traffic department and continue the two way conversion of streets, thus exposing the north end of the city to more people, they will see (as I have in over 6 years of living down here) that some of these neighbourhoods rock, and that it is actually not so bad a place to live. Combine that with the still incredibly affordable price of real estate and in time you can create a sea change in the socio economic compostition of this part of the city. This in turn will change the rate of secondary and post secondary completion rates. Leaving things as they are..... is not going to change squat.