Speakers Corner: The pros and cons of Oshawa's rapid growth
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2021
- Oshawa was recently listed as one of the fastest growing cities in all of Canada and it comes with some growing pains. Pat Taney with what it’s like to live in Canada’s boom town.
Unsustainable growth once again and building just suburbs will backfire on Oshawa. Planners need to rethink housing in Canada.
The biggest problems like panhandlers and drug problems have been with Oshawa for decades. Oshawa was used as a dumping ground for Toronto. I remember decades ago people being afraid to go downtown at night, although it really wasn't dangerous. Most of the boom is in North Oshawa.
And the bus service is nowhere near as good as Toronto's and it recently got worse. They cut back on it during the pandemic by removing stops and routes which haven't returned.
I’ve lived in the armpit of Toronto the whole town feels like creepy horror movie don’t eat at the Arby’s
The single mom capital of Canada
I didn't see any growth indication only it was a paid ad by the city of Oshawa.
A few years ago Oshawa was dying because of the GM plant shutdown, so I'm surprised and a bit confused why the city is booming now. What happened? Did they re-open the GM plant?
No one in Toronto can afford a home
They just built a bunch of houses. And since housing is so scarce people will live anywhere.
Nothing to do with Jobs, its simply all the houses were cheaper and many moved from Toronto. Brampton, Mississauga, etc causing the market to boom. Oshawa itself has gotten a lot worse, but on paper based on the housing prices you'd think its Beverly Hills.
@@NoobZxReviewZ Wow that's incredible. What's it like in Pickering & Whitby? Are they also booming?
@@robichj They're even worse. I've seen bungalows and small townhomes go for almost $1M in the western Durham Region. Pretty much anywhere from Pickering to Coburg is super expensive now, and isn't going to slow anytime soon, at least until the market crashes.
I hear Condo/home Boom in Nova Scotia/PEI going to taking place , get to it!!
Oshawa, for some reason hasn't gained the negative attention that's due, from corruption to incompetency, just imagine everything that could go wrong in a city, and realise that Oshawa is innovating ways to become even more terrible.
I love when they cuts allll trees and wiping everything nature out and building new houses really awesome! I can't wait to see 60 million Canadians by 2050 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
dude at the rate couples breed and immigrants pouring in, canada will pass that much sooner. and as far as environment is concerned, it will happen anyways. i want some form of subsidized home ownership program for young new grads.
To be fair, all these houses are being built on former farmland, so no trees are being cut down. But I don't get why Trudeau thinks all immigrants gotta live in either Toronto or Vancouver.
@@daelbows5783 to be fair those are the cities with the most diverse food and culture. plus there are plenty of jobs there. in the rest of canada opportunities are limited
@@asadb1990 Ik, but we don't have the housing infrastructure to support everybody coming here. Toronto has one of the biggest housing shortages in the world. I don't have a problem with everyone settling here, I just have a problem with city leaders (esp in Toronto) refusing to build housing in their cities.
@@daelbows5783 well the politicians, the builders, and agents are all in cahootz. seeing the space we have in canada we could create manufacturing as robust as china if we wanted to. there are plenty of natural resources as well. but canada keeps pushing on the real estate industry for the economy.
My aunt lives in Oshawa and her area is apparently riddled with homeless ppl a lot after the GM closure who are living in their cars etc., and literally will use their outside water taps or electricity to charge their phones at night!!! I've never heard anything like it and you wouldn't expect such a thing, but it's happening. She had to get a special lock installed on her outside outlets to prevent them using her electricity. Had she been told of this problem in the area, she would not have bought the home. Just crazy
She should have a switch installed indoors that turns off power to the outside sockets. It's also possible to install a tap on the inside that will turn off the tap outside.
Awful winters in Oshawa
very depressing place to live. especially winter
Where i am, stoney creek, essentially hamilton, the city has grown from 500,000 in 2018 to 800,000 in 2021. The city cant keep up but they aint stopping it either. Allll they build is town homes and semis. It pushed the value of my fully detached to worth nearly double what i paid for it hahaha. But the city needs to calm the expansion. Its wayyyy too much
I know how to house everyone. Tell the builders to stop being greedy. Toronto prices in Oshawa. What a joke
Toronto prices in Toronto is evidence of a failed system, one of the least populated countries In the g 20 with second largest land mass, and we can’t provide housing for all our citizens. That’s the failure of government at all levels, municipal to federal
You can not insult, the greatest, and most influential city of all time.
Poshawa
...wut?
Boom town hahahaha there's nothing there there's no jobs there look it up must be a government video from a citizen point of view Canadas not doing good
Yes most ppl move there and still have to commute back into Toronto for work
@@Quinn_2623 its just a government scam to go live there or their saying oh Canadas doing good as a country when it's not
Your in the wrong part of Oshawa 🤦🏽the south is not booming the north is goof ball
Crime zone lol
It's disgusting seeing so many names homes being built.
homeless everywhere tent cities all 9ver the city
too many immigrants.