Creemore, Ontario, Canada
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i grew up in Peterborough Ontario....about 1.5 hours north east of Toronto...
came to Toronto when I was 18 to go to college....Peterborough was just about the best place i can think of to grow up...I lived out in the countryside, small neighbourhood surrounded by farms etc....near a lake....pretty close to as ideal a childhood as you can get...
I often think it would have been nice to settle down there once i got married, but the truth is, that Nafta (free trade etc) killed my hometown....Peterborough is a shadow of what it once was....in the 60's 70's and 80's, it was a boom town, with lots going on...it's got a pretty excellent university, a thriving culture etc.....but free trade destroyed a lot of what was once great there.....it's become a retirement community now.....
that said..in the past few years, I've noticed it quietly becoming something great again....i think a lot of university grads from Trent U, seem to settle there .....there's been a resurgence of arts and cafes and a bit of a nightlife....it's nice to see things like that happen to your hometown....
My family and I live in Mississauga now, and we only get back to my hometown about 3 or 4 times a year...but if small town living/lakes/excellent cafe's and a not too bad commute is what you're after, i would recommend Peterborough....
amazing place...
plus, Moondance Records is there....best and coolest music store in the known universe....
(well..it was until itunes and downloading in general sort of gutted the market / need for music stores lol.....
- Great words here; thanks exador1. I'm from Chatham originally which is (sadly) dead to the world...ideaist
- Small town Ontario (and in general) have suffered; my goal is to inverse this trend... Take power out of the city...ideaist
- Level the playing field a bit...ideaist
- it's like reading the script from Little House on the Prairiemonospaced