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Originally Posted by Harley613
That's weird...I find Ottawa looks very well put together and prosperous, with the odd exception here and there. A beautiful city of trees and rivers, impeccably maintained and incredibly beautiful. There are the odd warts, most of which are in some stage of being addressed. I'm from Calgary, I have lived in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal and none seem as prosperous (on the whole)...
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My comment was more a response to the "overwhelming air of poverty" that Montreal is supposed to have...
I agree that the natural scenery in Ottawa is very nice and beautiful. The reasons why I don't find Ottawa that prosperous is the way people dress, the lack of shopping options and quality (this is improving), downtown outside of the Parliament Hill area and ByWard Market/Sussex is mostly unimpressive, the major commercial streets are a bit rundown and unimpressive (Bank, Rideau), lots of shabby and rundown buildings in the neighboorhoods surrounding downtown, Vieux-Hull is a disaster, the suburbs are not nicer of worse than elsewhere....
But the city as a whole is not ugly, very safe and
IS prosperous even if I don't find it looks that way. A good place to live. It is just more middle class than the bigger cities of the country. Less very rich people, but also less very poor.
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