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Originally Posted by Roger Strong
If you promote an area as the Next Big Thing for residential, if you zone it and give tax breaks for everyone to build apartments and condos, then those who move in are going to treat it like they live there.
A place where, among other things, they sleep before going to work in the morning.
What's so hard to understand and predict about this?
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Because everywhere else in the world people understand that the city has a life of its own. Winnipeggers also travel a lot, see it in other cities, and get confused when it happens here
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Originally Posted by bomberjet
And then when all the trees die everyone will complain how we did nothing about it. I for one think we should spend a ton of money on protecting our trees. Call me a tree hugger.
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Tree hugger
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Originally Posted by windypeg
Not entirely. When I was still in school my buddies were far more likely to go out to some crappy Canad Inns bar than to Osborne or the exchange. I moved to the village because it was close to work, close to all the bus routes and I didn't have a car at the time. I now have quite a few friends who all moved to Winnipeg in their 30s and set up in Osborne or the exchange because they moved here from places where the urban lifestyle was already very popular.
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So, is everyone in the exchange or osborne an out of towner? Because then you'd be right.
Maybe your buddies went to Canadinns bars, my friends and I spent our entire 20s in the exchange and osborne. If people, no matter where in the city they live, want to have fun they'll go to the fun parts of town. Can't blame their parents for wanting a yard for their kids, calm areas to ride bikes and good school districts.