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Yeah fuck this city! It has no idea what real life is, it’s boring, and dieing. It’s filled with idiots that think its some how gonna make it, and they are wrong. The entire image of Halifax in Canada’s eyes is “college, combat, conservative”.
T Dot = freedom + $$ —JESUS
This article appears in Jun 24-30, 2010.
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So go to Toronto then? Why would you be here if you despise it so much! Unless you can’t actually afford to live in Toronto or something funny like that 😀
I ‘m especially fond of the combat part; NOW GET ME ANOTHER KEITHS YOU UPPER CANADIAN HIPSTER PUSSY!
“…dieing ” ?
” It’s filled with idiots”
present company included…
and it’s not that bad now… all the festivals and events are starting up!
I’m totally excited to be living in Halifax now. It’s actually really vibrant – full of friendly people, with an old world charm. Ya it’s got it’s issues, but show me a city that doesn’t – Toronto included. I would HATE to live there – ugh. Upper Canadian self righteous asshole everywhere!
ahem, i was born in upper canada and assume i am not being cast forth into the big pit of cfas^^^
Never happen Painey. Just between you and me and these four walls I was born in Furd-town, New Bumsuck and my pater and mater live in Kingston, Ont which is very much like Halifax(old stone buildings, colleges, the military) except with more convicted murderers. >; )
guess what o.p., you are not alone here. a lot of eople hate halisucks, but not forr the rasons you state, well maybe a few. halifax, and canada in general, has been reduced to the biggest joke worldwide, thanks to harper. people used to be proud to carry a canadian flag on some sort on their person, luggage or their money. now if asked where from, they just say north of the u.s., pity.
I didn’t say they were ALL bad… just that they’re everywhere in TO. :~) There are east coast morons here – but they’re a different breed again…. (can say that being a total, and complete east coast girl… though I’m only in my 6th month of being a Haligonian!)
I was a Haligonian for 20 years. I live in Toronto now, and apart from the population, & plenty of immigrants from everywhere which, to me, is a really nice thing, the people really aren’t any different here.
cool ivan, i lived in furdtown when i was very wee…me ma was convinced the house was haunted. we did leave after 6 months, but that’s not unusual when your in the wpp^^^
My maternal Grandmother had a(non-working) farm on the banks of the Nashwaak.Mom & I spent a year there in 1965 when my dad was in Egypt, and numerous summers growing up. Great place to be a kid.
Please splain wpp, if it won’t risk revealing your identity >: )
sorry i am just feckin around…witness protection program, but in fact me pa worked for the federal gov’t…lockin the shop seeya
Compared to where I used to live, Halifax offers a lot more opportunity for entertainment and cultural events. This weekend and in the coming weeks, there is the Navy’s centennial celebration, Pow Wow, Canada Day celebration, and multicultural festival happening, to name a few.
It is all relative, I guess.
D’OH! Thanks PG – too many ersatz ‘grias this afternoon.
I love how the comment is from Jesus. Yeah, I’ve met some idiots here but the place is generally lovely.
…and if he’s stupid enough to come back, we’ll nail him up again!
I’ve lived in several Canadian cities, traveled across the country, and spent entirely too much time in Ontario. I came to Halifax because I like the city.
When I first arrived I worried that Halifax was too conservative for me. Now that I’ve lived here for a few years, I can see that I was judging Halifax according to the different cultures of the other places in which I’ve lived.
In my experience, Halifax has a modest, relaxed, live and let live attitude that I’ve learned to appreciate. The city is full of creative people doing creative things. Top it off with that awesome ocean air and you’ve got a pretty cool place to be, IMO.
Home is where you make it. Here in Hillbilly Hollow (not to be confused with Holler) was my solution to living in Halifax – it’s a great place except for the ditch drunks and their wives pitching verbal hatchets at one another at 5 a.m. Better than the guy who stands in the road trying to stare down oncoming traffic. But he’s harmless – if you throw a cat at him, he’ll scurry off.
I’ve lived in Toronto, Edmonton, and Halifax (I was born in Winnipeg). Despite Halifax being less than entertaining at times, I still prefer to call it my hometown. It has a good cluster of significant problems, but compared to Alberta, I’ve always found folks here to be less superficial and stuck-up (albeit a bit less willing to quickly accept others into their ‘inner circles’).
OP, if you have a problem with Halifax, I can understand why, but you do any city a disservice by boiling it down to simply being ‘boring’ or ‘awesome.’ Toronto’s got stuff to do, but does that mean that we should just disregard the pollution/crime/etc. and call it Paradise?
Love Halifax, too bad it snows there though.
And Toronto is better because?
More people + more malls + more bullshit = worse in my books
Send me a post card when you get your stuck up opinionated ass back to Toronto.
Toronto? July?
Not into masochism, sorry.
We’re so conservative we vote for the NDP in federal and provincial elections… Damn right wing Haligonians!
“Love Halifax, too bad it snows there though.” Like 8 times a year! Get over it lol
Halifax is fine. So is Edmonton, and most cities in Canada. Everywhere has good and bad parts, just focus on the good and stay away from the bad and you’ll have a good time and find good people almost anywhere you go. And at least in Halifax, people don’t tend to blow up half a neighbourhood trying to kill their ex-wife, or shoot you in the head for asking for a cigarette. Thankfully I’m (pretty much) single and don’t smoke!
That’s right sodeypop. I was thrilled to be a part of electing the NDP in N.S.
Hey, piratejenny! Fellow former-‘Pegger here!
Toronto is too American for me. Everyone there thinks it’s Canada’s New York and treats it like that. Way too facetious for me. Montreal is where it’s at if you want a large city that has character.
I’ve lived here practically all my life, and in all honesty, this city beats the hell out of any of the cities in the prairies. You want boring? Try a night out on the town in Winnipeg. The most fun thing they have is a casino.
I also dislike Halifax.
But I dislike cities in general, & I’ve tried out quite a few in North America.
All cities have some good points, to be sure, all of them do Even LA…but not so much I would want to live there…I like the peace & quiet of the country, I like the large amount of space I have & how much more affordable it is to have the space & things like waterfrontage by living in the country.
Yep cities…interesting places to visit…which reinforces how much nicer your home is, when you return from visiting one.
Yeah it’s hard to burn tires in the middle of the city.
Not at all Dr Fever.
I’ve done it several times. I’ve done it in trash burner stoves in more than 1 garage I’ve owned.
I’ve done it on several different frozen lakes along with large piles of recently discarded xmas trees.
Ahh…..good times & large amounts of heat on cold wintery days right in the city ~:)
Hey Zeus – you’re an idiot!
Which is 8 times more than here, the city does get it cleaned up quickly though.
Hey DF, what about socials? Haven’t had decent rye bread since I left Winnipeg.
You’re right BD, it’s really all about how you look at it. I always loved the cultural festivals that happen there, and if I could go to the Ukrainian festival every year, I would. I really haven’t had good perogies since I was there last. The Cheemo ones are okay, but they just don’t taste the same.
Alycia’s! The BEST fried perogies. Unless you can score a batch of homemade ones. I wonder if I can get City Rye fed-exed….
Anyone interested in organizing a Winnipeg-style social here in Halifax? All you need is a buffet (dill and bread & butter pickles, rye bread, sliced kielbasa, a few flats of cabbage rolls, etc.) a rented hall, some sad crepe decorations, and a cause to give the profits to. We could do without the bad light rock dj – some local live bands would be an improvement. I’d buy a ticket ….
Alycia’s! The BEST fried perogies. Unless you can score a batch of home-made….
Anyone want to organize a Winnipeg-style social? All you need is a rented hall, some sad crepe decorations, a buffet (with dill and bread & butter pickles, City rye bread, sliced kielbasa, a flat of cabbage rolls, and marble cheddar), and a cause to give the profits to. We could do without the bad light rock d.j. Local live talent would be an improvement. I’d buy a ticket….
Oops. Sorry all. The first post didn’t go through. Then it did, twice.
>T Dot = freedom + $$
I wonder if the OP has seen the news lately. T Dot = mess.
All that carnage and NOT ONE dead rioter. WTF! Did we use that $billion to buy everything EXCEPT bullets for the police? Back to the range boys. Put your rounds anywhere in Che Guevera’s syphilitic chimpanzee face for center of body mass hits.
nice one ivan…but che he was so cool man, like a rebel ya know. snort
Thank you and a very good morning to you Painuchka. When these protesters claim that they are standing up for the less fortunate in the world I can only assume that they mean those who sell plywood and replace broken windows. I’d love to see Layton and his crew show some “solidarity” with the people of downtown TO by helping clean up the wreckage and underwriting the quantum leap in insurance premiums they are sure to be hit with.
Now, I’m off to feed my corbies and support globalization with a large peppermint mocha frappuchino.
“Ain’t I a stinka?”
i always feel bad for the small business owner. caught in the crossfire
re: bd, that was wonderfully descriptive and many of us in this bizarro world have written odes to the perogies mmm
“live and let live attitude”… is NOT common in Hali or I’d still be there
i hate hippies
Halifax isn’t bad. Sackville, Spryfield, parts of Dartmouth, North Preston, Eastern Passage, Cole Harbour…now that’s another question.
What about Barrington and Gottingen? I have been told to avoid those too.
I wonder how many undercover police were posing as rioters this time ?
They’ve been caught using that tactic (is that what you call it ?!? in the past)
I find it hard to believe that a Billion Dollars plus worth of Police & resources are being stymied by a couple hundred destructive Protesters.
Can someone please tell me why they didn’t hold these meetings at a Military Base ?
A place where heavily armed, Armed Forces Personel do security everyday & we know it already works & they have complete control of their fenced area ?
After all the Military Base in Borden is less than 10 minutes away form Toronto by Helicopter !
Plus it has a Military Airport RIGHT ON THE FUCKING BASE !
Sorry for the rant… momentarily forgot that that would mean someone having a tiny itsey bitsy bit of COMMON SENSE…& No one in Governemtn in this or most any other Country can be accused of possesing that ! ! ! ! !
PG: thanks. I was feelin’ a bit nostalgic for my home town but I just couldn’t live there anymore. I much prefer Halifax. Ocean! Love the ocean.
Maybe it’s not so much a “live and let live” attitude. Maybe it’s more of a “don’t ask, don’t tell”. It’s still better than the open harassment and abuse I’ve encountered in other places.
I’d go one step further More. I’d say hold these meeting by video-conferencing. There’s no real need to waste time and money for a photo-op and if some quality face-time is required, I’m sure there’s some space at the UN Headquarters in New York. Maybe one of the disused store-rooms where Kofi Annan laundered some of his Oil-for-Food Scam money.
As for the anarchists; they could hold their riots on facebook. Some silicon valley software wiz could dream up a Farmville type of program – Anarchist-town. Smash virtual windows, throw virtual bottles and bricks at the riot-squad, burn virtual cars, position your virtual black-blockheads right next to, and upwind from the virtual New Mommies for Social Justice so they get virtually CS -gassed. Screech like an epileptic gibbon being cornholed with a bottle of tabasco sauce when the virtual police arrest you in front of the virtual CBC camera crew.
Memo to the upwardly spiralling number of silly bunts mewling at the cameras “This is what a police state looks like”
For a billion dollars, I should fucking well hope so.
the boy said they should have used skype (sp)
Here, here, Ivan! I concur wholeheartedly… why are you not ruling the world with that kind of logic, Commander?
he does rule part of the bizarro world of the damned^^^
Probably best that I don’t, folks. My Ludwig The Mad alpine castle could all too easily become the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. Although some of my benign dictator edicts might outlive me.
Henceforth broccoli will contain more carbs, fats and cholesterol than a 12 oz striploin.
Henceforth “Celtic Women” will only be allowed to perform “au naturel” (Hey PBS, you stand to earn big bucks from this.)
A special caveat will be written into the American Patriot Act expressly forbidding Angelina Jolie from EVER attempting a British accent.
A certain major world religion headquartered in Rome will have to pay for it’s misdeeds by selling off real estate and artwork; not by shaking down parishioners.
Americans will have to publicly apologize for inflicting George W. Bush on the world; and in the interest of fairness Canadians will have to do the same re: Jim Carrey, Celine Dion, Howie Mandel, Alanis Morrissete et al. You’ve got to admit any nation-state which develops and deploys Weapons of Mass Mediocrity like we do, has earned a little Shock & Awe.
The Canadian citizenship oath will be replaced by Dennis Hopper’s Geneology of Sicilians monologue from True Romance.
The words of “Oh Canada” will be replaced by the more inclusive “Rawk”, “Snort” and “Hee-Haw”.
I could go on, but it’s time for another sundowner
“Screech like an epileptic gibbon being cornholed with a bottle of tabasco sauce…”
something tells me I can’t even fathom what this would be like…
to hear or to witness…
unless the gibon has turetts…
then it would be like pizza corner @ 3:30 am sunday morning
Suffice to say zZz, there’s a very good reason why PETA must never learn my real name or where I live…
Holy fuck, Ivanski, you made me laugh so hard that Chuck Berry’s squeezing out my chair cushion for liquid gold.
i think this may turn out to be a banner week, what with the admiral not toiling away at the gulag. his pearls of wisdom will keep me larfing all the live long day. redrum redrum
Rawk Rawk to that, paingirl.