YES, Toronto has more good restaurants and YES, Toronto has better shopping and YES, Ontario has “real” winters…so here’s a thought…instead of CONSTANTLY bitching about Halifax and how it’s inferior to Toronto, why not do us all a favour and just move the hell back and shut the hell up already? Why are you here? Buh BYE! —Tired of your CONSTANT bitching
This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2014.
Did I ghost-write this?
Anything west of Quebec is irrelevant in my books (Well, lets face facts: Quebec is REALLY irrelevant). It absolutely BLOWS MY MIND how people from Ontario and west onward seem to have this deluded vision of how they are simply better than anyone or anything on the east coast. Let’s see Toronto: You have no greenery, too many people, too much crime, too many Americanized retards, too much of anything that is bad. Alberta: You have nothing that is even remotely desirable. Okay, you have work. I will give you that. But do you think for one second anyone from the east coast would go out west if they didn’t have too? And Vancouver, wow, the people that live there are the most self indulged, narcissistic egoites to ever live in Canada. Big whoop, you have mountains…not a real big deal after you have seen them once. Big whoop, you have water…its effing freezing water and unlike the beautiful atlantic ocea on our side, you could try to swim in those western waters if you are a major fan of hypothermia. EAST. COAST. RULES.
Write me a cheque for moving expenses and a guaranteed job with a liveable wage and you’d never see me again.
*poof*
Oh I so agree.. I hate hearing/reading all these complaints about Halifax or NS compared to a different place.. if you don’t like it here get your self out of here and leave the people who wan to be here alone.. I agree Halifax isn’t a perfect place but I’m pretty happy with my home and get annoyed with people start disrespecting it.
We aren’t complaining cause we hate it, and want to leave. We complain because we see problems we want fixed and are looking to improve this city, and province. Not just to wish for things, but to push people into making positive change rather than having a fatalist attitude and being content to live with less when we could be doing soooo much better.
I hit a pot hole so deep this evening I’m calling it a Kardashian, the deepest minge known to man, or woman, or battery powered device.
But their Mayor is more entertaining than ours?
As someone who has lived all across Canada I can tell you that it’s pretty much all the same. Some cities are bigger than others, there is more gainful employment in some areas, the geographic landscape changes, provincial laws differ (usually only very slightly) but in every other way it’s no different. Same consortium of people just in different numbers. B.C. is pretty much part of asia, the prairies are still dominated by the natives and the Hutterites and black people are a pretty rare find west of Ontario.
In my experience people on the east coast actually are more hospitable but that may only be because I’ve only ever lived in larger cities out west and there is something about being surrounded by that many strangers all the time that makes people detached from one another. Which is why I personally prefer to live in Halifax. But there are plenty of assholes here too. I might even be one of them. The only thing I can think of that would improve not only N.S. but Canada as a whole would be to adjust the provincial tax rates so that each province paid an equal amount of tax. At least that way people from Alberta would shut their self-superior mouths because the illusion of greater prosperity out west would slowly diminish.
We don’t want to live in Toronto, we want to live here cause its different. Why move somewhere and complain about how much it sucks compared to where you moved? We like to call our not so subtle differences “upper Canadian douchebag repellent”, and thank Jebus it worked so well for so long. Apparently you assclowns are like cockroaches and have become immune to it.
The committee that interviews for a CAO for HRM must’ve been impressed with the candidate from Toronto to give him the job, time to revisit that decision?
“Write me a cheque for moving expenses and a guaranteed job with a liveable wage and you’d never see me again.
*poof*”
I’m with ya on that, Zed. Let’s be roomies. I know a great condo coming up for rent in Yorkdale.
I like Halifax, but I feel as if I’m doing the same ol’ same ol’ at this point. My dad retired in late 2008 and he’s bored out of his mind because he just doesn’t have the activities that one would get in a larger city.
He HATES Toronto, though. He used to play up there in the 70s and instead of staying in the hotel provided, he’d go to the airport and wait for the next flight out.
The only thing I can say in the Halifax vs. Toronto debate is: last time I was up there I didn’t notice it while I was there, but when I got home and we were coming back from the airport, the colours seemed more visit on the scenery: you know why? The air is cleaner and clearer here.
Blunt, you forgot to say they also have Rob Ford.
“Alberta: You have nothing that is even remotely desirable. “
You’re so fucking stupid. Yes, Nova Scotia is beautiful, but it’s not the only place in Canada with anything to offer.
Look zuke.. if you see things YOU WANT fixed, did it ever occur to you to figure out whether or not WE want them fixed? You know, the people showing you the hospitality in their OWN province?
You’re not here to lift us out of some sort of perceived much with your gracious hand. You’re here because we haven’t drummed you out yet.
Halifax and the people in it have cried foul over the injustices committed to it since the British forced troops in it and it’s people west to fight. It’s disdain for law and order have been well documented. The one thing I can say about Nova Scotia is it looks just like our cottage areas in northern Ontario. We don’t live there all year round though. It’s quaint for a while and then we drive home to work, and we do get real winters, where we don’t panic and demand to have our lives spared from our employers because if 10 cm of snow. I’ve also been in much friendlier places in the states and abroad than the facade of pleasantness that ns likes to present. Newfoundland is nicer and more hospitable besides. Jealousy and self loathing is very good for the average Nova Scotian since it’s always “all ontario’s fault”
good lord, does everyone choose the exact same shirt to wear? the same car? the same artwork?
find the place that suits you best and go there. but don’t expect it to be perfect.
campaigning for some improvements in the place one likes the most is fine, but a constant mosquito whine about how some other place is better is just annoying. and like a mosquito you will get swatted for the whine. Halifax isn’t manhattan or santa barbara or toronto or vancouver.
is this the ‘macdonalds syndrome’? to make every place exactly the bloody same?
i like both cities and halifax has some great restaurants, but i can’t imagine having to grow up here
Halifax & Dartmouth SUCK …. which is why I moved to the country , because Nova Scotia ,IMO should not be judged by that small area of it.
yo RunswithScissors, i am from here.
I want us to do better. Unfortunately most people seem content with mediocrity.
Blunt4Lyfe’s comment actually caught my attention.
Blunt4Lyfe, if you actually go back and read what you wrote, you’re pretty much describing exactly what you’re doing. Have you lived, visited, spent any extended amount of time anywhere else outside of NS? If not, what are you basing your claims that EAST COAST ROCKS on? What does Halifax more and better than any other place?
I agree with paingirl.
It’s not really about “oooooh I love Halifax” mentality. It’s more about what a place has to offer, if anything.
If you think about it, our power rates are very high.
Chicken this year has reached an all time high of $30 / kg!!!!
Tires are now at least $500 for a good set. That’s walmart prices!
Oil has been holding steady between $90 and $95. Last time it was that price, we paid close to $1 a litre. For some reason it continues to increase here. Even when the oil prices go down. Last time I went to East Side Marios, I paid $20.69 taxes included for one dish.
That same dish I used to pay just over $15. A fucking pasta dish for $20.
A glass of beer now is $7.50 anywhere you go unless you want to skip work and go during happy hour. I’m actually starting to see people at bars around noon on weekends because it’s less expensive then.
Let’s not forget that we have the highest taxes in the nation!
Lowest pay rates and least amount of jobs which caused over 4000 people to leave the province last year alone!
Let’s not talk about the crappiest education for the most money.
So Blunt4Lyfe, is this why EAST COAST ROCKS?
As for runsWithScissors comment: “You know, the people showing you the hospitality in their OWN province?”. I thought this was Canada and we as Canadians can live anywhere we want in OUR COUNTRY, or has Nova Scotia gained it’s independence and I’m the last to know?!
just sayin’
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/two-decades…
Zuke, Thanks for posting that. I enjoyed reading and certainly very much agree with it 🙂
World Class “Town” and people indeed 🙂
Randomness FTW.
Can we get a six flags or something???
Some decent entertainment place… then I MIGHT consider staying.
Or like a west edmonton mall knockoff with shit to do.
Fun stuff, not the lame-0 wooden shitcoaster at Upper Clements.
Hell, even a fucking Denny’s or SOMETHING!!!!
There’s just an uber-grand lack of everything exciting.
-most of which is all the fucking concerts and tours that just stop in Quebec and head back south.
And again, the delusions of cheaper living expenses compared to other places that is just a flat out lie. The only thing I’ve found that doesn’t get cheaper the farther west you go is booze… until you get south enough to cross that border.
Kinda makes me want to move to Stanstead just to shop in the states and live in Canada.