Canada’s Best Places to Live
Check out the alleged ‘Best Places in Canada to Live’ by MoneySense.
Milton would rank #12 as part of Toronto in this study. Ok I guess. Pretty much what you would expect. The problem with using weighted statistical data is that you always end up with some odd-ball rankings. Gander, Newfoundland at #10, Leamington, Ontario at #14 (ahead of Vancouver) and the cities of Brandon and Thompson, Manitoba ranking ahead of Calgary and Edmonton amongst others made me raise a ‘Spockian eyebrow’ at first glance…. Also, good for Tillsonburg (”my back still aches when I hear that word” - Stompin’ Tom Connors) making it into the top 50 at #38.
I thought this article would make for some interesting discussion.
Or maybe not.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I grew up in the middle of a cornfield (sounds like a song right there), yet I still feel qualified to comment on the rankings of urban-type places by MoneySense magazine, which I have never read.
Moncton - would be nice except for the sprawling, ugly surburbia, with inappropriately (and prominently) placed, low-rent strip clubs. On second thought, there isn’t anything else. The mayor of Dieppe (a suburb of Moncton - definitely NOT its own city) was on the local Maritime news a while back, bragging about how his “city” was the capital of the Acadian culture, and a great city in its own right, implying “so don’t even try to amalagamate us with Moncton” - not after we just built this big, multimillion-dollar city hall - all said with a smug, french-Canadian accent (am I allowed to say that?) - I just about puked.
As far as Ottawa in first place - it wasn’t even a fair fight, what with all the tax dollars at work there. The roads remind me of westen Germany - smooth.
Winnipeg’s murder rate is awfully high, as is Regina’s - weird.
Halifax - we gotta get that murder rate down, too, but apparently everybody bought a new car last year.
Brantford at # 50? The last time I was there, the downtown core looked a little like Bosnia, or a city in the Mid-East, but without the delicious falafals.
I hope Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge/Toyota Plant/Guelph gets an NHL franchise - and they don’t need you, metro-Toronto-people.
Big-ups to Tillsonburg - it has everything you need, and Lake Lisgar.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:06 am
BrotherShayne, what else is there to do in Winnipeg and Regina?
Brantford now a days is much like London with the decrepid downtown with the edges much nicer. The casino alone was probably enough to push Brantford up the list.
Good on Milton for it’s ranking.