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Hi there,

Did anyone else catch this list? Why is Milton at 9 and Burlington is 1? Is city council ever striving to be 1,2 or 3? Or are we satisfied with mediocrity?

... So I googled it.

Actual article:

http://www.moneysense.ca/2013/03/20/canadas-best-places-to-live-2013/

9th on the top 10 list of small-cities to live (in Canada) isn't so bad. Burlington is in a separate category; You must be difficult to appease IRL?

Granted, Milton is no way from perfect, but hey, it's a community; you're welcome to join it.

I'm just comparing to the peers. Burlington, halton hills, and oakville all beat us out.

OK, well, they are separate categories in that article.

Anyway, what is their criteria on scoring? method of collecting data? Sample size? all that jazz -- None if it is listed.

I wouldn't loose sleep over this.

..and Newmarket. LOL.

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Burlington is a top notch town to live in. I’d move back in a heartbeat if it wasn’t so far from where I work.

There is no hope in hell that this town will ever come even remotely close to being as great a place as Burlington is. Not unless we tear down everything we screwed up these past 10 years and start over. The Thompson/Nipising traffic bottle neck, the disaster that is Main St E, littered hideous houses and condos that will one day be the ghetto of Milton. Poor commercial/retail integration within our residential areas (particularly the original Hawthorne Village). Ongoing traffic hell, with growth before roads, and no plans to change that. Public spaces that are half maintained.

I don’t blame council, particularly the current one, as much as I blame our civil servants in charge of executing the details of our growth. We just don’t have the right people to pull off rapid growth in a sensible fashion. It’s all old Milton people who got where they are because the real talent moved to more exciting places to work.

I think the people Milton attracts is another issue. You can have the best planned town in the world, but if it’s populated by a bunch of losers who are too cheap to buy gas for their lawn mower, it’s going to look like a dive.

I’m using the natural gas line behind my house at 4th line and Clarke as my finger in the wind. I’ll believe this town is turning around when somebody gets off their ass and puts the walking path in that’s been promised for 12 years. What a joke.

9th? I was going to say very well done, but the fact is Milton is 22nd overall, not bad since Milton beat Vaughan at 23rd

9th is for small cities category (or should I say town?)

http://www.moneysense.ca/best-places-2013/

Comparing Burlington/Oakville to Milton is like comparing Kate Upton to Whoopi Goldberg.

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I’m sure they want to put a paved path in, but there’s provincial legislation preventing it. Section 4 Sub Section B of the “Excuses to allow local municipalities to suck at what they do” act.

In the snow the pavement is just as buried as the dirt

This.

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