[BrianE]

I'm fairly optimistic about hamiltons growth projections. Maybe its because I just moved here in the last 5 years and havn't become jaded yet or having not lived here all my life I can look at things from the outside in.

Here is a small list of the people I know who have moved to hamilton or are planning to move in the near future.

- Myself from sudbury in 2003.
- One of my cousins from Burlington. For reasonably priced housing.
- A coworker of mine just moved recently from Guelph.

- Another cousin is looking to move here from Elmira to be closer to family and take advantage of the low housing costs. She can sell her 300k home and use the equity to buy and renovate a house in hamilton and live almost mortgage free.

-My inlaws may move here if my father inlaws workplace moves to Mississauga from Vaughn. The reason? they don't want and nor can they afford a $300k townhouse condo. They want a single detached house which doesn't exist for under $250k in Miss, Oakville or Burlington.

That's just the people I know and I don't know many people also if you count their spouses (spouses also have jobs) and children thats almost a dozen people.

I guess you could say that I'm the leading edge of 20 somethings just finishing university who are looking for a place on their own with no roomates but can't afford $1000 per month rent. 4 years ago I was renting an apartment in hamilton for $700 per month, now I own a house in hamilton and hamilton buisnesses are benefiting from my well paying job. I'm not the only one, there are going to be more and more people moving to this city and doing just what i've done.