Well I'm not sure I'd call them misconceptions since you've failed to refute most of them, and have admitted that many are accurate. Look, I love Hamilton but let's have an honest discussion free of emotional attachment. The light rail line is 50/50 chance to get built. Car ownership rates...

Hamilton's having a bit of a it-girl renaissance right now. People who wouldn't have touched in with a ten foot pole are now mumbling about moving there, though most won't make the jump. I'd say a lot of the overflow was from Toronto, creative work-from-home types started the move around...

Well, a) this isn't a ten dollar item we're talking about, B) this isn't an easily replicable consumer product and c) this isn't Walmart we're talking about either. But even if you do want to compare completely incomparable situations, if you saw something on sale at Walmart for well below...

Yeah, I might just be used to it. Sometimes I do notice the 'old cauliflower' scent in the air around Copps in the winter when we go to Bulldogs games. Heck, I might be nostalgic for it. You're right - the GO pass is insane at 350$ per month, not including getting on to the TTC. Moving to...

Hamilton is truly awesome. has everything that Toronto has but with fewer repeats of the same thing and no lineups. The library system is fantastic. Farmer's market is actually useful - you can shop there, not blow your wallet to bits, and come home with real groceries, not just artsy-curios and...

Is Dutch Dreams moving down the street on Vaughan Road, from north of St Clair to south of St Clair? They've Dutch Dreamsified the variety store building on the corner of Vaughan and Ellsworth - they've put up new multi-coloured shutters, new flags, painted the wood trim outside and they're...

Yeah, Royson has never been a lefty. He's more of an urban centrist that can tilt a little past the centre in either direction now and again. You can find him hitching rides on both the St Clair streetcar and the gravy train. Royson fancies himself a bit of an institution at city hall - he...

I'd prefer some retail too, but given they're proposing retail right across the street at the "Nest" condos and there's a fair amount of empty retail east of Wychwood and west of Arlington, I can see why they just went for the housing. I'm sad about losing the KFC across the street.

Anyone know if Wychwood-Davenport Presbyterian Chuch sold? North-east corner of Wychwood and St Clair. There was a "for sale" sign up for a while over fall and winter.

It's not the stop spacing. Each one of those stops serves a specific catchment area: Christie services the Humewood crowd and the bus-transfers to the Christie line, Wychwood services the barns are the Hillcrest crowd, Vaughan Road is essentially a funnel for people (and traffic) onto St...

I'm not suggesting that the real estate board's assertion is legit, but is it possible that the land transfer tax is discouraging moving up the "property ladder" since it increases the transaction costs significantly beyond the first purchase?

And I think that's a fair post. I don't disagree with that in any way. My main disagreement is that in the open auctions the chance for misinformation or fraud is slightly more difficult but far from impossible so we better know what we're getting into aside from that aspect. I think it all...

Why is the original agreed-upon price from the article (the one with a 75 grand above-list bid) not "fair market value"? I'll give you credit, at least you put it in quotations unlike many others. The sellers were willing to pay that much, I guess they felt it was affordable, they obviously...

Oh please spare me Josie. She messed up, and messed up big and she's trying to cover her you-know-what before the clients realize that she didn't do her job properly. Bid based on worth, personal finances and price tolerance, not how many other people are in the auction. Even then, she let...

I've always found that a bit funny too. $750 to fill out forms. Ouch. I'm certainly not looking forward to forking over a percentage of my return if/when I sell my house and am definitely open to new compensation models. But I don't begrudge them a decent living - I'm sure there are lazy...