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Originally Posted by SteelTown
Marvin now regrets the area rating idea based on a previous interview.
During the newscast it said 1 in 3 commute outside of Hamilton's CMA for work.
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It might be 1 in 3 outside city limits. The big deal is Burlington, where I think somewhere near 30,000 Hamiltonians work. I consider Burlington to be Hamilton. The QEW corridor in Burlington has been the most attractive choice for companies to locate in the Hamilton area for the past 30 years. Burlington should have been amalgamated into Hamilton long ago. The balance of the employment base (and municipal tax dollars) in Greater Hamilton has been shifting from the old lower city to Burlington during that time.
Hamilton should have been claiming ownership of Burlington all along too, even without legal amalgamation. If all those Burlington based companies wanted to locate in the Toronto area, they would be out in Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, etc. No, instead they are in the Hamilton area, and Burlington has presented the most attractive location in the Hamilton area in recent years.