Comment 69155

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted September 07, 2011 at 09:22:21 in reply to Comment 69151

If people want to enjoy some kind of "small town life" in suburbs, we need to figure out how to pay for them.

I think we took something entirely different from this 'small town feel' reference. (This wouldn't be the first time, huh...?)

You're seeing this as being framed by the 'suburban' discussion.

I see it as those parts of Hamilton...the original Hamilton...that are not 'downtown'. But absolutely not 'the suburbs'.

I won't name the streets or the neighbourhoods, but Hamilton is rife with them, locales that provide a 'small town feel' within a city of a half-million residents.

(As an aside, I somehow doubt anyone in 'suburbia' as these areas have long been constructed, see themselves as living in an area with a 'small town feel'. A 'small town' has a main street. It has a 'downtown', a core. And as much as many of us may prefer to look upon these people as having different values, I don't think they're so clued-out as to see an archetypal subdivision as being anything akin to a 'small town'. Surely big box developments, strip malls and the like don't offer up anything akin to this experience.)

Comment edited by mystoneycreek on 2011-09-07 09:42:18

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