From reading the article, I got the sense that these people don't really know what it means to be neighbourly. They are probably scared of everyone and everything outside their doors, and that is why they don't want the centre in their 'hood.
Everything and everything? Quit being so hyperbolic.
Let's talk reality here, shall we?
For all you know, they could be LOVELY people, who are TRULY sick of being terrorized in their own neighbourhood.
I was one of those kids who bounced around from troubled home to troubled home while growing up.
Looking back, I feel bad for my former neighbours/neighbourhoods, because I often put them through a great deal of trouble. I was a punk!
Do you know anyone on Jeffcoat Drive? Does anyone here? Because, I don't.
NO ONE really wants *their* house to be the house beside a house like this, so I think it's best to hold back judgement.
I thoroughly dislike Doug Ford, but it really seems like he's speaking for many of the residents on this particular street.
Do folks who've lived on that street deserve to be upset/made uncomfortable because of what's going on there? No, they don't. This seems like a genuine issue.
I once lived at 10 Maynard Ave. in South Parkdale, right beside one of those homes casita mentioned. The rooming house was dirty, noisy. I gather it wasn't everyone's cup of tea. I get that. Apparently, some of you don't.
Sometimes ... it really doesn't have anything to do with your dislike for the Ford's, and there's much more to it than you might otherwise think/believe.