I never understood what people don’t like about kingston. And if they don’t like it here they should move elsewhere lol. If you ever tell them that though they’ll just laugh it off as a joke. People here complain about the dumbest stuff. Like Ottawa and Toronto area expenses aren’t significantly higher. People just can’t be happy with anything anymore always have to see the negatives in life
It's funny I have lived in cities across Canada and in SE Asia. I also grew up in Kingston and lived there for more years when I retired.
Every Canadian city is the same. We have a family attitude about our city. The prices for buses are too high. They should do this. They should do that. There is too much smog, Why are there no major stores downtown?
I say family attitude because if you have lived a long time in Kingston it is your city. Just like your family, you complain about your brother or sister. You can complain about your house and other Kingstonians and you can complain together BUT heaven help anyone from outside who says anything bad or tries to trash your city.
This site is sort of the same thing. Notice on here that local fans will Beach about their team but what happens when someone deemed as an outsider does it.
It is the same in Ottawa, Toronto, Napanee, Edmonton, Calgary the East Coast, Pakistan and even here in the Land of smiles Bangkok. Each city has its issues but heaven help a tourist that comes in and trashes the place.
The problem with Kington is that for its life it was always a 3 facetted city Military, Factory (railroad shipyard, Dupont, Alcan, Celanese Canada) prison and university.
The challenge now is that the factories that employ the greatest number of people are no more. Everything line elsewhere in the world can be done cheaper outside the country. This has killed the tax base as well as the social support system that the city had. Kingston is now a university, and military town. BUT the biggest part of the city is retirees and people on government support people on fixed or budgeted lifestyles.
Also, consider that it is possible that the Fronts are designed not to make money but to just break even and provide a tax right off for the owner.