Newmarket

I grew up in this not-so-little town. It’s grown too fast and definitely not the same town when I left, which is just under 6 yrs ago. It’s great when you’re younger but once you hit teenagedom it becomes a big bore, unless you have a car and then you can cruise around town (oh the memories!).

Unless you have a good set of local friends one of which has an empty house and a car, Newmarket is borrriiinnnnngggg

I grew up here. There isn’t much to do, albeit for the movie theatre and the mall, but the people are great and the music scene is, too.

At the time, it was still relatively small – at the edge of the megacity formerly known as Toronto. I really enjoyed growing up there, and I spent a lot of my youth biking around and enjoying the surrounding fields, woods and streams.

It’s now a giant mall/parking lot amalgam… so many open spaces that I recall are now rows of houses or sprawing malls.

I went to visit a couple friends that still live there, and there was no real place to sit and have a coffee… the downtown is a mere shell.

The entire city has been successfully WalMart-ized.