All water bottling companies should be investigated for fraud.

Don't tourists bring money though? I know that many of the shops around here depend on the tourist trade.

That's exactly why the Hershey factory was a loss to the area - the tourists have no reason to go to Smiths Falls now and so aren;t spending money in the town.

er so when I said..

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..I wasn't wrong.

Have you thought about the Quinte area - close to TO, Montreal, Ottawa and on Lake O.

We live in Prince Edward County - a gem of a place - million dollar properties, vineyards, fine dining, creative econonmy, Lake Ontario and Sandbanks.

It is like a little bubble and yet cross over the bridge from the Island and you have Belleville on your door step.

There are still some affordable places on PEC.

Its not all good then

I think the OP was looking at working in Ottawa, so nice as it is around here I dont think it would work for them.

Personally I never saw what the fuss was over the county, its nice, but not worth the premium compared to north of the bay, and you get a lot more lake effect snow than those of us that dont stick out into the lake.

I suppose if you want to run a B&B though its OK

Snow what's that? We are not in the snow belt. Last year had 2 weeks of snow and did not use our tractor to plow our drive way at all (we have a farm), and the year before was a bad year and that was 1 month of snow but we did have to use the bucket on the tractor.

We are a 3 hr drive from Ottawa.

I think the "year before that" was actually pretty normal and we have all been dodging the worst of it for a while now....

They recently closed down a large psychiatric hospital in Smiths Falls. Locals tell me that the town was famous for that, as well as Hersheys.