Terrific read and some excellent Winnipeg highlights shared. Nice job and, as a former Winnipegger, one of my top WITI posts ever.
One addition to offer: a band called The Weakerthans. One of their best known songs is called One Great City (mocking a Welcome to Winnipeg highway sign from years ago put up by a business group) whose chorus is "I hate Winnipeg." Their relationship with their hometown is love and hate, and the kind of love that can also hold hate in it at the same time.
When people ask me about being from Winnipeg the fact I tell them is that for corporate transfers it's the hardest place to move people to and the hardest place to move people away from. People don't often love it but those that love it, love it a lot.
Well said. I am a true Winnipeger, born, bred and still here. You didn’t really talk about the main feature responsible for more out-migration - our famously cold winters. Our city is rated #10 out of all cities over 800,000 in Canada. Even worse than Edmonton.That one hurts. Apparently Edmonton has less finger-freezing, frost-bitten-toes weather than us. Ah well. Damn the Panama Canal.
OMG, now I know why I first subscribed to Why is this interesting?
I lived in Winnipeg from ages 11-16, then for 4 months at 18 (my parents gave me $100 & a one-way plane ticket from Chicago to Winnipeg for my 18th birthday), then I left to travel with the Ex, then I was back in Wpg. the next year for 11 months, and then one more time at age 20. I haven't been since about 1992, but it's the one place I've lived that regularly appears in my dreams. I love it so much that I feel as though it's now completely out of reach.
Terrific read and some excellent Winnipeg highlights shared. Nice job and, as a former Winnipegger, one of my top WITI posts ever.
One addition to offer: a band called The Weakerthans. One of their best known songs is called One Great City (mocking a Welcome to Winnipeg highway sign from years ago put up by a business group) whose chorus is "I hate Winnipeg." Their relationship with their hometown is love and hate, and the kind of love that can also hold hate in it at the same time.
When people ask me about being from Winnipeg the fact I tell them is that for corporate transfers it's the hardest place to move people to and the hardest place to move people away from. People don't often love it but those that love it, love it a lot.
Well said. I am a true Winnipeger, born, bred and still here. You didn’t really talk about the main feature responsible for more out-migration - our famously cold winters. Our city is rated #10 out of all cities over 800,000 in Canada. Even worse than Edmonton.That one hurts. Apparently Edmonton has less finger-freezing, frost-bitten-toes weather than us. Ah well. Damn the Panama Canal.
OMG, now I know why I first subscribed to Why is this interesting?
I lived in Winnipeg from ages 11-16, then for 4 months at 18 (my parents gave me $100 & a one-way plane ticket from Chicago to Winnipeg for my 18th birthday), then I left to travel with the Ex, then I was back in Wpg. the next year for 11 months, and then one more time at age 20. I haven't been since about 1992, but it's the one place I've lived that regularly appears in my dreams. I love it so much that I feel as though it's now completely out of reach.
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