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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek
Tyndall Park eh. Looks like we have more in common then I thought. I was there for a few years until moving to St. Vital and appreciate the area for its blue collar, but yet safe feeling. Living on Burrows meant I could walk down to Tyndall Square for everyday goods and there was a nice community feel. Mind you this was in the early 2000’s, but it seems these days the area has stagnated a bit. Hopefully they can allow new infill development soon and give the area a slight boost.
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I moved away from there over 20 years ago but my mom and some relatives still live there, so I do make it over there on a regular basis.
It's kind of interesting, your description of a "blue collar, but yet safe feeling" is very apt. It was basically a neighbourhood of people in what I'd call "good" blue collar jobs. My friends' dads were guys who moved up a couple of rungs at the gas company, the railway, the bottling plant, the bakery, etc. The only friend of mine with parents that had true "professional" jobs was one of my buddies whose parents were both schoolteachers. But most moms in the 80s around there were stay at home, or maybe had part time jobs as bank tellers, waitresses, secretaries, etc. That being said, the area definitely had a bit of an edge to it despite the suburban feeling, petty crime, vandalism and such were not unheard of. Even a couple of murders through the years.
It felt like the area was slipping a bit in the 90s, back in the days of dirt cheap real estate it looked like some blocks were heading down the slumlord rental path. But an upswing in immigration helped it to bounce back, it got noticeably better as the 2000s went on. The area definitely has a "landing pad" feel as it is the kind of place where a lot of new Canadians buy their first home after settling into life here.