I’ve lived in Highfield Park (A.K.A Crime Field) in Dartmouth for two years. My car has been parked outside in a lot the whole time. No one has even so much as touched my car in that time, not even a scratch from a car door.
Last Saturday while Dj’ing a wedding at the Halifax Club on Hollis Street downtown, my car was parked on the street with a bunch of other cars. Some wonderful person smashed a beer bottle through my windshield.
Such a violent, unprovoked act surely must only happen in the north end, or Dartmouth, or especially Highfield Park, but no. It happened right downtown on a busy, well lit street in a higher end part of town.
I won’t be moving downtown anytime soon. And don’t believe the hype, Highfield is not as bad as you think. —D. Jones
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.
Wherever there is subsidized housing there are assholes. Coincidence? I think not.
Where ever there are people, there are asshole.
Coincidence?
Who the hell cares. People are the problem, not geographic areas. Shit will happen, anywhere.
And downtown has the benefit of having people come from all around to drink and do dumb stuff(for example, throw a bottle through a window).
Meh. This is so fucking boring.
Anyone have a car vs bike Bitch, or stroller mom Bitch?
Ya the south end is pretty nice, but it’s not prefect. Could be anything from a drunk student to some crackhead young offender living in a south end halfway/crack house.
The only valid reason I could ever see for not wanting to live downtown is the prices, as you can have a beautiful new apartment or a 100 year old dump and still be charged the exact same inflated price. For someone that walks everywhere like me it’s a great location.
Agreed, OP. My car is fine too, for the most part, I think I got digned, but the parking spaces in my building are really tight, I don’t think it was on purpose.
All things considered I’m loving Highfield. If I worked in Halifax I MIGHT consider moving there, probably not.
every bad or good neighborhood will have certain areas that are not typical of the neighborhood. location, location, location.
ok op
I live in stabfield park too, right across from where that pizza guy got shot.
Aside from that one incident, it’s a pretty quiet area.
I live in “Crimefield” And I also live on the ground floor. I’m also a legal gun owner, and I’ll be damned if anyone breaks into my APT and expects to leave without a bunch of .38 caliber buckshot holes in them. Good luck explaining to EHS why half of your leg is gone.
And you will be the one going to jail Blah
.38 caliber buckshot?
My thoughts exactly, avast.
Yeah, .38 caliber buckshot. You fire it from a Glock 9mm Vulcan chain gun.
Wha’ you think yer better’n me…?
Ahhhh ok.. NOW I know the one you’re talking about Ivan. That’s the one that comes with the cork screw, folding scissors and tweezers, right? Or am I confusing that with the one with the slip-nosed pliers?
“I’m also a legal gun owner…”
Um…just a suggestion but, you MAYYY want to re-take that test….just sayin’ :S
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.38 cal buckshot and you’re a gun owner. Lord help us all. If you don’t know anything about guns, you shouldn’t own one.
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Yeah, that “pizza guy” who got shot was a coke dealer and he was set up, presumably by local coke dealers who didn’t like seeing him encrouch on their turf. He was from out of town. Wasn’t a random incident. Didn’t that US Naval officer get stabbed to death downtown Halifax? Anyone scared to walk around there? Just sayin…
In a country of 30 million citizens and only 120 homicides by firearm, I have a hard time believing that ‘random incident’ exists,
No doubt Moosehead….ack.
.38 cal. buckshot, is better known as doule o. you get 10 or 15 of these babies comng at you, all at once, your ass is fucking hstory.
i used only one shot, and it would be to the head, my accuracy is about 95 per cent. i work hard at it. that 5 per cent, is small, but it could mean life or death. i have ben in with weapons for over 40 years, and have owned/fired just about everything there is. the only exception is a thompson .45 sub machine gun, known as a tommy gun. and of course a blunderbus. that is the ultimate home defender. with take any ammo you can shove in barrel. but black powder can be really fucking tricky to use.
Uhh, I meant .32, sorry that I was .6 off?
Fact of the matter is, anyone who breaks into your home is obviously there for a reason, to steal or assault you. And with the mindset of a lot of people who home invade/B&E, drugs can also be a factor.
If someone enters my home with the intent to steal from me, injure or kill me, I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.