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Old Nov 19th 2015, 11:24 pm
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Oshawa, which you mentioned upthread, is a rust belt town; the car factory closed and it got rough and cheap.

The last time I looked (last week) the Car factory in Oshawa was still open and three people I know were still working there regularly. The city does have some "poorer" areas down closer to the lake, but overall its a good place to live, there are some quite desirable areas and it's populated with fine people.
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Old Nov 19th 2015, 11:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
I didn't find Oshawa scary, but then I have been to some pretty rough areas of the US and so far nothing in Canada has come on par with the bad parts of Milwaukee, Chicago, and Los Angeles.....
I agree that Oshawa isn't scary, it's the idea of living in Oshawa which is utterly fearful. (Although there's a nice pub there).
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... Oshawa.....Although there's a nice pub there).
Just in case I'm ever that way, what's it called?
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Just in case I'm ever that way, what's it called?
Jeez I'll have to google that.. it was at least 3 years ago when we happened upon it en route to IIRC Port Hope.

OK, here it is The Thirsty Monk Gastropub - 21 Celina Street Oshawa, 905-728-3219.

BTW Port Hope is an interesting place to visit for its thriving Arts community. There are lots of economic refugees from Toronto's Queen Street West who have fled the oppressive rental costs and set up shop there.
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
OK, here it is The Thirsty Monk Gastropub - 21 Celina Street Oshawa, 905-728-3219.

BTW Port Hope is an interesting place to visit for its thriving Arts community.
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Jeez I'll have to google that.. it was at least 3 years ago when we happened upon it en route to IIRC Port Hope.

OK, here it is The Thirsty Monk Gastropub - 21 Celina Street Oshawa, 905-728-3219.

BTW Port Hope is an interesting place to visit for its thriving Arts community. There are lots of economic refugees from Toronto's Queen Street West who have fled the oppressive rental costs and set up shop there.
For a small town Port Hope wasn't too bad. Spent a couple months living there in 2012, nice library as well.

Whitby wasn't too bad either, and I may not have ventured into any bad parts of either Whitby or Oshawa but both seemed like a typical suburban like city, lots of commuters to the big city living out in the burbs to get more bang for their buck in housing.

Good decent transportation into the city as well, even when in Coburg ran into a few people who took Via Rail (go didn't run that far) into Toronto daily for work, but wanted small town living.
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Originally Posted by plasticcanuck
Oshawa, which you mentioned upthread, is a rust belt town; the car factory closed and it got rough and cheap.

The last time I looked (last week) the Car factory in Oshawa was still open and three people I know were still working there regularly. The city does have some "poorer" areas down closer to the lake, but overall its a good place to live, there are some quite desirable areas and it's populated with fine people.
I concede that it's fifteen years since I went to Oshawa, people I knew who lived in Scarborough went there to buy drugs and I'd tag along sometimes. We'd go to a big dance hall, just north of the 401, I've forgotten the name but it was well known for shootings. It seemed a bit rough to me but then, I suppose I've been gentrified.

If the American car industry has had a revival and the factory is now back to running three shifts churning out Camaros I'm glad to hear about it.
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