Great, so now the CFA’s want us to change what makes us unique, our dislike of people who come here and want to make our place look/feel like where they came from. Fuck off.
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2008.
Make ‘Come From Away’ go away, N.S. Grits say
Great, so now the CFA’s want us to change what makes us unique, our dislike of people who come here and want to make our place look/feel like where they came from. Fuck off.
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they don’t want to change it to look/feel where they came from necessarily. They want to make here BETTER. What’s so wrong with that?
Sure, that makes sense. Unfortunately the places they come from can support both a vibrant downtown core AND a box store mentality, Halifax can’t. We aren’t big enough. We aren’t the big cities that they came from. But hey, if they have a way of making Barrington St not smell like piss and mould, go for it.
love it cranky, you’ve got it. the point then is, how do we discourage big box and encourage boutique? I agree that we are not big enough to sustain both, but if folks really truly got on the green bandwagon they would go to a big box store and take a shopping cart to shop for clothing (I saw a lady once put something like 5 or 6 tops and three or four pairs of pants in her cart at one sitting); instead, take the same money and buy one nice/quality/classic piece of clothing. Better for the environment, better for the downtown (locally owned) merchant. And hey, Barrington could be revitalize if more of the CFAs came here with their attitude and money and talent and made it better. The Cape Bretoners that we keep getting to move here wouldn’t know urbanism if it jumped up and bit them.