Comments on: How I learned to stop worrying and not dislike Mississauga

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:30:57 +0000

I must have flown into Pearson 400 times with my previous job and it’s strange to say that aside from some layovers in hotels at night I haven’t had much of an opportunity to see the area.
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By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:27:02 +0000

Pahney! Maybe its because we have just taken the largest bungee jump of our lives!?!?
Do you have Skype!? We’d love to chat ‘for real’!

By: pahney!

pahney! — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:11:02 +0000

The other day whilst laid up I had a dream about you and Michelle Skypeing me. I’m trying desperately to recall the content of the dream, but all I can remember is that it resulted in me Fedexing you both a 13m bungee rope. I then awoke to the strains of my gobshite neighbour Kyle screaming “focking cont!” at the top of his voice – mouth like a sewer, and another reason to love moving on?

By: Rachel Stuckey

Rachel Stuckey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:56:12 +0000

Oh, dear. The North American suburb, which earns the name city by virtue of population size–it will be the death of us, I know it.

Growing up I used to think it was called Miss-a-sausage!

My housemate just took a job running arts and culture for Mississauga, so it’s bound to get better soon. But I still recommend getting those geese in a row, asap!

By: Sal

Sal — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:10:06 +0000

The birth of the new always brings about reminiscence for grime…

Part of me wants to run from the whole notion of where you now find yourself Quin – cars before pedestrians, 1 bus stop nearly a mile away, 35 minutes of pain seperating you from your beloved cuppa. But…but everytime I have to share my public space and almost stand public bone to pubic bone with some unsavoury person on the tube…everytime my local supermarket gets fenced off because of some random act of violence well to be honest where you find yourself doesn’t seem so bad. Yeah we got grime, local newsagents and our fair share of “colourful characters”, but I think I gave up glorifying the rotten bits of London and other cities a long time ago. Maybe Mississauga is a little on the sterile side, maybe in the end it’s just a belly full away from giving you gut rot but it looks nice and gives you the chance to find out what life may be like on mars (or neptune if you prefer) ;) Oh and thank you so much for showing me your local mayor – surely you love living there for her alone!

By: mch

mch — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:53:57 +0000

Yes I came accross the delights of square one last year while researching a trip to Toronto Croatia’s stadium (well, leisure centre), sadly never put into practice as we couldn’t be arsed cometh the hour (it was, in principle, reachable by public transport).

Interesting stuff, mind you parts of it aren’t far removed from some of Britain, just a little more extreme – Lillington where I grew up features identikit houses, few pubs, crappy transport and loads of people (probably easily a majority) who never walk anywhere.

You should take a trip to Houston sometime, it’s astounding for a city of nearly 6 million, even Mississauga will seem like a thoroughly proper place oozing with culture!

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:29:41 +0000

My word for all this was and is sterile. It is magnificently clean but is missing the life forms – good and bad – that you find in the Londons and New Yorks of the world.

Of course I grew up in the urban centre that is Etobicoke:-).

[Notwithstanding the above comments, I am very proud to be Canadian even if I do live thousands of miles away.]

By: Anne Green

Anne Green — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:18:39 +0000

True that Mississauga is certainly not perfect. But there are a lot of positive things about Mississauga as well. We have wonderful Rec Centres and Libraries. Should parents choose to let them kids can usually walk to school. There are a lot of arks in Mississauga as well. Too bad more people don’t use them! Lots of sports and recreation activities for the kids. The weekends usually have something going on. Especially in the summer! (Check the event calendar on http://www.MississaugaKids.com! OH! And there is a contest on to win free tickets to the Mississauga Waterfront Festival there as well!)