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Originally Posted by coolmillion
The demographics of the neighbourhood have changed drastically in the last decade. Many rooming houses have converted to flats and single family homes (one on Falkland was renting rooms for 300 dollars a few months ago and now looks like it could sell for half a million), new developments (Glubes, Theatre Lofts, Falkland and Gottingen, Brick Yard, Spice), plus older apartments around Brunswick (not sure if these were built after Sobey's left) that have large student populations, plus many more on the way. People are happy to perpetuate a stigma about Gottingen (lock the car doors! don't go near there at night! look at all those poor, drug-addled thieves!) based on the presence of low-income housing, a few crack houses spread out over a square km, and services for marginalized communities, which are part of but not representative of the neighbourhood as a whole.
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Yep. Anyone who's doom-and-gloom about the neighbourhood could take a look at
Global's nifty summary of last year's census. The North End (and most of the peninsula) is gaining, rather than losing population, and at a faster rate than the HRM as a whole. (Click on "Change in population, 2006-2011." And to see a pretty dramatic illustration of where young people are moving to, click "Change in median age, 2006-2011").
(The greatest growth, unfortunately, is still in the Tantallon/Hammons Plains area, but hey, hype about downtown aside, the greatest growth in the GTA is in suburban Burlington, so at least we have company in our sprawl.)