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Originally Posted by drew
Often times people that have trouble finding a relationship simply need a change of scenery, or just a method to get out there, and moving away will often help with that respect.
I have no issue with people moving around, to different cities, and finding success elsewhere.
My issue is when people choose to constantly complain about and disparage where they came from, with mostly dubious arguments.
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The arguments are perfectly valid. Plus without my perspective here and there, much like when I used to lurk SSP (2013-2019) and see the chaos that erupted between eachother over subjects, problems and other facts - especially over the stupidest shit imaginable - it all just becomes a downhill gongshow.
With my newly-returned SSP two-cents, gotta admit - people are finally starting to talk about the critical issues, even if it pisses everybody off, at least we're all finally now having a conversation about whats wrong with Winnipeg, ideas to fix it, etc etc.
Plus if you scroll up to the top of the page, you'll find actual criticism of Calgary versus Winnipeg. I might like my new mountain paradise, but in some aspects, Calgary is like a suburbanized version of hell. It makes Winnipeg suburbs (pre-Linden Woods) look like high-density Manhattan, in comparison. Plus there was some crazy stuff thats happened in Winnipeg, but I never recall anyone ever going through the Siemens-Duwag meat grinder, like someone did yesterday with the CTrain... or how about addicts camping out with numbers in the dozens, right in front of Polo Park, like at Cadillac Fairviews prized posession (Chinook)? Never seen any more than maybe 3-4 junkies EVER at Polo Park, at any one single time. The house prices at $600k? $3.40 busfare for shit transit service outside of the LRT and Route 3?
Winnipeg Transit might be a joke, but at least they understand the concept of going from A to B. Polo might not be glitzy, but least Genghis Khan isn't waiting to greet people outside the doors, or having tents parked along Portage, needles and siht everywhere (if you visit Calgary soon, look at the Chinook underpass near Glenmore, you'll be shocked at how bad and open-air it is out here). No LRT, but even though operators have died in WT, suicides and people jumping in front of buses are unheard of in Winnipeg, nvm a regular occurrence... Winnipeg development sacrificing development for history, versus Calgary bulldozing all and replacing it with skyscrapers that are now empty and void of offices...
Winnipeg has some issues, yes, but honestly Winnipeg has dodged quite a few bullets. So as long as Pallister & the City of Winnipeg govt don't shit the bed all over again, in regards to developing what needs to be developed, funding what needs to be funded, NOT pissing off WPS, NOT continuing the welfare/poverty circle eternally, and NOT driving people out of Winnipeg to outside the Perimetre (such as the RM of Ritchot gouging businesses out of the city, or East St Paul getting any more massive) if not out to other provinces... then Winnipeg's golden. But damn, if we don't have these conversations and bring up the critiques, who will...?
BTW, whatever happened to Cyro? Just out of curiosity, remembered him taking over from 1ajs for modding MB/SK for a bit, but haven't seen him post in ages. No complaints though, just have no idea what happened to him.
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