TOP 8 WORST PLACES TO MOVE IN CANADA (2013)
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We’ve told you about some of the underrated immigration destinations in Canada, now check out our list of places prospective Canadians should avoid: the poor places, the racist places, the isolated places, the depressing places, the worst of the worst! Naturally, the tiny towns in the woods of Northern Ontario or the southern shore of Newfoundland would be the worst of the worst, but let’s be reasonable. Here are list of towns and cities with a substantial population (at least 5000 residents) that might seem like a decent idea to a prospective immigrant interested in a slower pace of living.
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1. New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
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High crime rate? Check.
High unemployment? Check.
High cost of living? Check.
Limited access to services? Check.
High property taxes? Check.
Bad weather? Check.
Despite being a small, quaint city just a few hours from Halifax, New Glasgow tops polls of the worst places to live in Canada. How could those 10,000 people stand it? They must have all been born there.
In 2009 New Glasgow ranked 36th out of 208 in StatsCan's crime severity index. The crime rate increased from 2011 to 2012, and was significantly higher than the provincial average.
In 2006, New Glasgow had an unemployment rate of 7.7%. It has decreased since then and, as of the 2011 census, it was 5.7%, or slightly lower than the provincial average.
The cost of living in New Glasgow was estimated by one website to be 4% higher than the cost of living in New York City, but only 30.3% of those reporting say their households earn more than $60,000 Canadian per year (after taxes).
Property tax in New Glasgow was higher than the average in Nova Scotia and significantly higher than Halifax up to and including 2013.
Climate
New Glasgow receives 1212 cm of precipitation per year (that's more than Vancouver).
2. Kitchener - Waterloo, Ontario
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Congratulations, Kitchener / Waterloo, you are the hate crime capital of Canada! Despite hosting two universities and a massive tech company campus, the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge tri-city area experiences a high per capita rate of verbal and physical assaults on ethnic, religious and gay minorities. Despite its location in the highly diverse Southern Ontario region, Kitchener has inherited the mantle from the previous main offender, Calgary.
In 2011 Kitchener-Waterloo was surpassed by Peterborough, Hamilton and Ottawa in police-reported hate crimes, however the rate remained at nearly double the national average.
3. Thetford Mines, Quebec
The third of the three rogues’ gallery dwellers is poor Thetford Mines, the heart of Quebec’s asbestos mining region and the winner of the title Most Polluted City in Canada. Despite the overwhelming evidence of the dangerous health effects of asbestos, Canada still mines the dangerous mineral, and the biggest mine in a populated area is in Thetford Mines.
4. Bay Roberts, Newfoundland
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Many, many other rural communities on the east coast could make this list, but Bay Roberts appears because it has the highest unemployment rate in Canada, at 17%. Despite the oil, gas, mining and hydro-power booms in Newfoundland, Bay Roberts has somehow managed to avoid the job benefits. This wouldn’t seem so peculiar if Bay Roberts wasn’t just an hour’s drive from money-drunk St. John’s and other rapidly expanding bedroom communities like Conception Bay South.
The unemployment rate has improved as it was 20.7% in 2006
5. Sarnia, Ontario
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Sarnia itself may not be so bad, but its view of and proximity to American heavy industry helps to reinforce the fact that this border town is polluted. It also has an empty downtown and a shrinking population.
6. Saint John, New Brunswick
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Long known as the unglamourous milltown cousin to its apostrophic neighbour to the east, St. John’s, Saint John is a dirty, stinky pulp and paper port on the Bay of Fundy. Despite the natural beauty nearby, the city has a declining population and few economic opportunities outside of the paper mills, nuclear power plant, and small university satellite campus. Don’t end up in Saint John when you want to live in St. John’s!
7. Nanaimo, BC
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8. Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Steeles Ave In Halton Hills and Milton, Ontario
Steeles Avenue is a majour road in the Greater Toronto Area criss-crossing several cities such as Milton, Halton Hills, Brampton, Toronto, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham and Pickering. The road runs east to west.
Georgetown, Ontario: Driving Around Downtown (February, 2018)
POV video of old downtown Georgetown, Ontario, a community in the town of Halton Hills and part of the Regional Municipality of Halton. Georgetown has a population of over 40,000 but the downtown is more similar to a centre with 10,000 or less.
The town was settled in 1837 and dissolved in 1974 when it became part of Halton Hills and is now officially considered an unincorporated community.
The video was taken with a GoPro Hero 5 Black and the background music is Hills by Riot.
25 Best places to live in Canada
Canada’s 25 Best Places to Live in 2018
Moneysense ranks how each city measures up in 10 categories: Wealth and economy, affordability, population growth, taxes, commute, crime, weather, access to health care, amenities and culture, giving each category a weight out of a total of 100 possible points, making categories most important to average people worth the most points.
they are:
1. Oakville, ON
2. Ottawa, ON
3 Russell, ON
4 Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, QC
5 Lacombe, AB
6 Milton, ON
7 Canmore, AB
8 Westmount, QC
9 Saint-Lambert, QC
10 Halton Hills, ON
11 Camrose, AB
12 Red Deer, AB
13 Mont-Royal, QC
14 Saugeen Shores, ON
15 Fort St. John, BC
16 Toronto, ON
17 Lévis, QC
18 King, ON
19 St. Albert, AB
20 Whistler, BC
21 The Nation, ON
22 Bonnyville No. 87, AB
23 Newmarket, ON
24 New Tecumseth, ON
25 Whitby, ON
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HAMILTON - CITY OF FALLS | ONTARIO,CANADA
Enjoy the beautiful nature in Hamilton and some of its finest falls. A great day out with friends hiking in the woods.
The city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada is home to more than 100 waterfalls and cascades, most of which are on or near the Bruce Trail as it winds through the Niagara Escarpment. Ontario's internationally recognized Niagara Escarpment provides perfect geological conditions for waterfalls to occur, from Tobermory to Niagara Fall.
ALBION FALLS is a 19 m (62 ft) classical/cascade waterfall flowing down the Niagara Escarpment in Red Hill Valley, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. With cascade falls the downpour is staggered into a series of steps causing water to cascade. The top of the falls are located on Mountain Brow Blvd. The lower-end of the falls can be found at the south-end of King's Forest Park in lower Hamilton by following the Red Hill Creek south towards the Niagara Escarpment.
DEVIL'S PUNCH BOWL is a 37-metre ribbon waterfall on the Niagara Escarpment, in the Stoney Creek community of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is found in the Devil's Punchbowl Conservation Area, maintained by the Hamilton Conservation Authority, and features an escarpment access trail with connections to a recently improved section of the Bruce Trail. Stoney Creek's Dofasco 2000 Trail is nearby.The Punch Bowl is also known as Horseshoe Falls for the distinctive shape of the cliff-face, which somewhat resembles its much larger cousin in Niagara Falls.
CHEDOKE FALLS is 15.5 metre urban ribbon waterfall found atop the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.The watercourse is the Chedoke Creek, an urban creek that runs through the west end of Hamilton and crosses the Bruce Trail and the Radial Trail. Denlow Falls can be found nearby just east of Chedoke Falls.
CLIFFVIEW FALLS is a 15-metre terraced ribbon waterfall located beside Cliffview Park on Scenic Drive Upper Paradise Road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Can be accessed via the Bruce Trail.
Locations in the video:
-Concession Point
-Albion Falls
-Devils Punchbowl Fall
-Chedoke Falls
-Cliffview falls
-Stoney Creek
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