Canada: Ontario: Thunder Bay

starless_dreamer
Thunder Bay

Not That Awful, But Still Pretty Bad

To be blunt, this city is dying.

Sure, it’s got a beautiful waterfront, and really isn’t all that horrid, but the people running this city have the intelligence of a half-eaten-fish-out-of-water.

The sleeping giant’s really nice, and we have some really nice recreational places like the Cascades, Centinial (sp?) Park, The Bluffs, ect, but it all gets rather…dull, after a while. No real GOOD bands come here, though we have a community auditorium, and everyone under 20 (and a good chunk of people that are ABOVE 20 as well) are all leaving because there’s a severe lack of jobs here.

Plus, our crime rate is insane and there’s a lot of drunken brutes wandering the Fort William district aimlessly, asking people to be in porno’s. Who wants their kids growing up in that?

Thunder Bay has its pluses, but its negative factors FAR outweigh them.

Comments:

Dyanna L
Thunder Bay

Hmmm

I noticed that you said there is a sever lack of jobs. I have been here for 3 weeks. I have put out about 25 resumes, have been offered 3 jobs and have had about 5 interviews, and I still have a few more. I have my pick of the crop.

No good bands come here because the venues here have stupid rules like no standing. Bands choose their location based on the number of people who will buy tickets and the rules of the venue. If the venue will not let the fans be fans why whould the band even bother?

I just moved from Abbotford BC. There were 10 houses in my block out in the country and our cars were broken into on a weekly basis. The crime rate may be on the rise here in Thunder Bay, but I assure you it is far far worse in other cities. Thunder Bay actually helps it’s needy. The city I moved from had somehting like 300+ homeless, and 11 beds in the homeless shelter. There was only one soup kitchen that ran every other day.

I totally agree, I have never liked Thunder Bay, but the things that you complain about are not the problem.

My country road in Abbotsford had drug deals on the corner every day. There were prostitutes on most major corners through out the entire town.

All cities have their low points.

The answer to the problem is for the people like you and I who are in our 20’s to work towards a change. To boost the economy, to be visionaries, to get into politics and make a change. Not to complain and participate in a mass exodus.


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