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Here’s hoping this week’s cover and feature articles shut up all those folks that get poles up their asses whenever The Coast runs a best of issue and leaves out whatever the fuck there is in Dartmouth.
I will stop at Two if by Sea sometime, though.
—Cranky
This article appears in Feb 18-24, 2010.
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After trying to come up with something clever for a couple minutes now, and failing (thanks a lot Canada Vs. Switzerland….I’m sleepy!)……I’ll leave it at this:
I moved to Dartmouth last year somewhat apprehensively, and not I wouldn’t move back to Hali if you paid me.
But! I always come crawling back to Hali for a good night out on the town. C’mon Dartmouth, give us something to work with here……
“poles up their asses ” made me laugh. Sounds like a good slogan for Reflections.
Actually, I, like Bawls, moved to Dartmouth last year, and quite apprehensively as well. I’ll never move back to Halifax side.
Dartmouth is fan-fucking-tastic!
I like afternoon walks around lake Banook, that’s about it.
My sister lives in Dartmouth and god forbid, you need a car to get anywhere.
I don’t live in Halifax myself either, Bedford, between sobeys and superstore so thank god I have it made. Only kick in the teeth is NSCC stupidly placed their building at the end of dartmouth that you can only get there quickly by boat.
Like really, boat!!!! You can take a bus, 1.5 hours later from outside of downtown halifax, you finally get there!
I don’t think it’s dartmouth’s fault, I think it’s the cities fault for poor planning!
and no, there isn’t much in dartmouth. I don’t know why. It had a lot of potential!
I moved to Dartmouth 2.5 years ago and there’s no way I’d move back to the peninsula. Dartmouth is awesome and it’s only getting better.
Maybe there aren’t as many bars open until 3:30, but there is a thriving nightlife on this side of the “pond”, and there are some excellent live music venes that are just as good as some of Halifax’s offerings.
Musical friends of ours refuse to play Halifax because they feel the appreciation of their talent is higher when their audience doesn’t consist of drunken freshmen from the Universities. So IMO, that’s one more reason to stay on the “darkside”. 🙂
enjoy your jersey side.
Gidget, agreed.
I think there’s just more green space and family living in D-town. And you don’t actually have to take your car everywhere – There are lots of grocery stores and other conveniences that are easy to walk or bus to. Not to mention tonnes of greenspace so if I don’t want to go running down busy streets, it’s easy to find somewhere else to go.
The Darkside rocks! The City Of Lakes offers the best practically at your back door. Swimming, boating, trouting, skating, pond-hockey, Shubie park trails for hiking and biking, duck ponds, lakes galore, Alderney Landing’s harbourside concerts, Montes, John’s Lunch, Dillman Park and harbourfront bicycle trails. Also, closer proximity to the surf at Lawrencetown Beach, which in my opinion is the best of any or all of the above.
Mmmmmmm John’s Lunch. Now we’re talkin’! And I love that even though I live in an apartment, I walk literally two minutes to go swimming in a lake, or to go running in Shubie park, only ten minutes to the grocery store on foot, and the list goes on!
OP, are we making you nauseous? 😛
Don’t forget Ralph’s Place – HRM’s one and only strip club, which is bullshit! Knock down that ugly condo on Barrington Street and bring back the Lighthouse! We could get some cheap strippers from the crackhouse next door, haha. Or, at least, we can start a “Lighthouse II” in one of the vacant buildings on downtown Barrington Street.
But yeah, Dartmouth isn’t bad. I also like the Wendy’s on Wyse Road as you first come off the MacDonald Bridge. Mmm spicey chicken!
Dartmouth is awesome !!!!! The reason haliwwoders bitch about it is because it is NOT haliwood !!! When they going to get through they’re heads !! It’s dartmouth not halifax . We have plenty to do and more lakes within foot distance more parks more….. yea you get it !!!
DARKSIDE RULES
Oh ralph’s. Halifax needs a classy strip bar IMO.
That’s my one *beef with halitown, it appears so conservative on the outside.
*Please do not stone me now =)
Bahahaha fallingangels…..you’re my hero of the day.
If Halifax had a strip club I wouldn’t have any reason to go to Dartmouth!
FWIW, Dartmouth was on the radar but honestly, value just wasn’t there. I don’t know how people can say they saved X dollars by buying in Dartmouth. That and I don’t feel like like biking the bridge every day.
Oh yes Ralphs Place !!!!! I live ( when I am In dartmouth in the summer ) right behind it a few blocks !!! Cheap hoes and cold beer – short stumble home !!! How could I forget that!!!!
Cranky, I think it’s just easier to get a starter home in Dartmouth (if in-city living is truly what you’re after)- maybe the value still isn’t what it could be slightly outside either of the cities, but there are more starter-sized homes with bigger lots and more space (generally speaking) than in peninsular Halifax.
True to that bawls – true to that .
We need a LTWWB party at RALPH’S PLACE! We can all smoke some doobies crash at theweedhog’s place if we have to.
At least dartmouth isn’t sacktown *shrug*
LOL at Q-man – we’ll be the group bitching about the quality of anything and everything and debating the merits of putting a classier strip club in Haliwood.
Q man you guys are all welcome to smoke dartmouths finest green and crash at my house !!!! Ahhh man I been tossed out of there plenty times !!! I remember some drunk ass stumbles home !!!!
LMFAO @ Bawls
I’d say the building that Mexi’s on SGR moved out of would make a pretty good strip joint. Someone should “snatch it up”.
Hehe, snatch it up. Might be a good idea, last time I was at the old Mexi’s it felt a bit “clammy.” Hehehehe.
The point is not only to create a new strip club, but also to revitalize Barrington Street! See other thread, “This town needs an enema,” for more details.
And TWH, next time I’m in Dartmouth and you’re there, I will surely take you up on your offer of pot, strippers, beer, and maybe some coke… off a stripper’s chest, of course. Fun fun!
The clams at John’s Lunch are far yummier than those at Ralph’s IMO…hehehehehe!
Oceanlady…I don’t think I would put a Ralph’s clam near my mouth ~;p
John’s lunch still has ok clams, but they’re not what they used to be. One time the oil was changed much more often & that really shows in the flavor IMO. While I know everything has increased in price as the years have gone by…why has the price gone up & the portions gotten smaller ?
I remember years ago the fries were made from real potatoes, the last couple of times I’ve been there, they were from cardboard…I mean from frozen.
Ummmm…. are we still talking about shellfish?
I was actually planning on going tonight. Not 100% sure but its on the agenda….
Until I moved to Nova Scotia clams at John’s Lunch were a sporadic but mandatory treat so my infrequent consumption doesn’t allow for a fair assessment. On subsequent visits, since making my home in the area, with clamfests relegated to occasional treats, I’ve been fortunate enough to be on the right side of the oil change.
Pubic, I mean public, clams can be fun to look at though.
Let’s not forget Micmac Tavern…
I remember well the claims of greatness for the tavern steaks of the Mic Mac…I do not ever remember, a claim to fame for clams, anyone else ?
HAHA “Clam” from ralphs in your mouth ? HEE hEE!!! I just had too !!! Q – the strippers are easy to drag home with you – plus its short to my place !!!
Not to mention the nicest bar in metro and one of its best kept secrets – Montes.
shellfish? well then i think the mussel looks much more like a wmn’s woohoo
i had to beard so many of them when i was an apprentice that that is why i think this way
with deep fried if the oil is old everything be nasty
and some of you think i’m uptight and pissed off sometimes, sheeesh.