[ssiguy]

It's nice to see Sarnia finally recover from it's decades long slump of basic population stagnation. The city still gets a bad rap due to the petro-chemical industries and the old joke was that you could always smell Sarnia before you saw it and while that's history now, old beliefs die hard.

Sarnia has a fairly mild climate, not much snow, and a very picturesque location. Considering Canada's massive size and having the world"s longest coastline we actually have only 2 main "beach town" cities...........Kelowna and Sarnia. Both have similar winter climates but Kelowna has the mountain beauty but Sarnia offers far a far less isolated location and a vastly cheaper cost of living.

Sarnia does need to work on it's downtown and these new towers will certainly help but if I had to say one big drawback od Sarnia is that it's probably the biggest city in Canada without easy access to a university. Western in London is the closest and still an hour drive. Lambton College is quite substantial but it's still not a university forcing many young people to leave even if they really don't want to.