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Originally Posted by Pinus
The loss of retail in our city centre has to do with socio-economic issues that plague the city, which started around 30-40 years ago and have been getting progressively worse. As soon as impoverished aboriginals started coming into the city en masse, and congregated in specific areas of the city (by choice or force), crime and neighbourhood deterioration had begun to increase dramatically.
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Yeah, well, I guess we have to use code like "the elephant in the room" to describe what you wrote above. Otherwise, we on the political right risk being banned off of SSP. So goes our city, eh.
If I were more "mobile" economically, I would have left some time in the 2000s or certainly by the time Katz caved into the cycling-BRT-"progressive" crowd, pulled up stakes and moved to Toronto where I've visited 4x and love that city, despite some crime.