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Forum: Canada
May 30th 2012, 11:43 am
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

I hadn't but I've been thinking about this and what it says about urban America. It seemed an interesting oddity. Alas, a nearby cynic points out that it's simply not true, which makes it less...
Forum: Canada
May 29th 2012, 3:19 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

One of mine sailed out of Bay City for a couple of seasons (some excursions were for the benefit of young offenders from Detroit, apparently gangstas trying to climb rigging while holding up their...
Forum: Canada
May 29th 2012, 1:14 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

I believe we were at that mall around Christmas last year (I'm not good with malls but it was a big building in Dearborn containing shops). For me it was no more or less charming or threatening than,...
Forum: Canada
May 26th 2012, 4:11 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

I've described my entire experience of Windsor. It looks a lot like Sudbury but I don't suppose many posters have seen Sudbury so that's not really of any help.
Forum: Canada
May 26th 2012, 4:08 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

To the contrary, while I've been to Detroit, and diverted through devastated Spanish language parts of town as described above (recently, so the diversion debated above seems to have come back) my...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 6:55 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

Er, news is independent reportage backed by statistics. Anecdote, "it looks nice to me", is not usually considered equal. Still, it looks nice to you, it doesn't look nice to me. Even, innit.
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 5:26 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

I'm sure you can look after yourself without the use of any of my guns.

I didn't, of course, say that I thought Home Depot to be a crackhouse (though I did see two men, both with the pallid faces...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 5:08 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

Personally, Home Depot. Lowes. Usually we go to Buffalo but one of daughters has ties to Windsor and to Detroit so, if she's there, we go to Detroit instead of Buffalo. If we're going to go that far...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 4:30 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

I cross the border and go to rundown places, I assume everyone else does too. Misery tourism is interesting and Detroit is an ideal place for it. One does, however, need to be mildly prepared, it...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 3:34 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

Lot of crime in Detroit, that's not usually an indicator of an affluent place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

and, indeed, it's not affluent:
...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 2:48 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

I haven't been to Kitchener for years, I don't imagine I could distinguish it from Windsor. I think when it comes to small towns in Ontario, probably all of Canada, there's nothing to commend one...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 2:17 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

I haven't commented on Windsor. But, since you ask, I've been there once, last Christmas. We had a nice breakfast, in a strip mall, followed by a walk along the water (as much as possible, it seemed...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 1:45 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

Really, claiming Detroit as nirvana is rather gilding the lily and singing the praises of one of the most blighted cities in the US makes one wonder if Windsor is all you crack it up to be.
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 12:30 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

No need to take new pictures, people have done that already:

http://www.themotorlesscity.com/category/poverty/
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 10:21 am
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

Umpteen times, I used to have business with some people who lived just north of there; past the boarded up liquor stores and missions with bars on the windows, threading through the wasted people on...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 10:16 am
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

Since we've been going to Buffalo and Detroit frequently (we're renovating and get all the building materials in one or the other) we've found the better parts of Buffalo. I like it, at least I like...
Forum: Canada
May 25th 2012, 3:39 am
Replies: 78
Views: 8,070
Posted By dbd33

Re: Windsor, Ontario?

Ahem. I think I have a high tolerance for sketchiness and, by way of keeping my eye in, just this evening I've driven along Buffalo's delightful Genesee Street. Still, I think this claim is rather a...
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