sitter_k
Active Member
What you don't like downtown Brampton? lolBrampton is a strange city. I've lived there most of my life. When I moved there, it was still a "town" and the population was around 18,000. It's now well over 500,000 and has just turned into a sprawling mess of subdivisions and strip malls. I live in one of the "older" areas that is well established and still quite nice. Mississauga is much the same. There used to be nice little towns like Streetsville and Port Credit, but they all got amalgamated together, and the subdivision/strip mall pox crept in there too. There are very nice areas in Mississauga and then there are the areas of urban sprawl, just like Brampton. I think this is an artifact of being so close to Toronto. Brampton and Mississauga have no real identities of their own and are largely "bedroom towns". When our kids went to college at Western in London, I was always amazed at how London, a city smaller than Brampton, actually seemed like a nice city with a proper downtown, amenities and an identity as a city.
I live just on the boarder of Brampton in Caledon but used to live in Mississauga near sq 1 in a condo. I think the biggest difference btw Mississauga and Brampton is that the middle class is really getting hollowed out in Brampton now. Take a drive from the 410 to Main on Queen and count how many cheque cashing/pay day loan, cash for gold, and pawn shops. Mississauga has some of these areas too but to a lesser degree. Mississauga also has a higher density living in middle to high priced condos. Of course you can find beautiful homes in Brampton as well in the North but they're not as prevalent or dense as Mississauga.