[realcity]

You do know Hamilton's ENTIRE LOWER CITY IS LOSING POPULATION. Wards, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, are losing and been losing population for 50 years, some more like 1 and 2. It's a Rust Belt thing, similar to Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit and smaller areas like Erie,Gary, Toledo and Dayton.

Oddly enough Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland like to claim that healthcare and education are their number one employers. Guess what, they are regional centres like Hamilton is in some regard, and also claim that we are a healthcare and educational centre. Well that's just lovely, they can't move, (Mac, Mohawk, St' Joe's, HHSC) can't move to Texas or Arizona or Mexico, and they don't pay taxes and have every local politician in their pocket (with the exception of Bratina) for the last 25 years. Oh yeah I drove by the so-called Innovation Centre on Longwood, and it looks worse than when Camco was there, nothing has been built... that was promised... nothing but the old Camco Head Office building, and a Federal Building, built by Ottawa for steel materials development, moved from Ottawa, nothing else, it's a piece of shit wasteland with pathetic signs asking for leases, "Will build to suit"> Mac you piece of shit (my almost alma matter) begging for developers on your shit land. Hamilton was better off when Stelco, Dofasco, Camco, National Steel Car, Union Drawn Steel, Samuel Steel, Proctor and Gamble, Westinghouse/GE/Siemans, Firestone, HI Case, Air Liguide, Columbian Chemicals, and the Mafia, were the biggest employers in town.