KINGSTON NEED WORK? DIG THE LIMESTONE?— Pick your favourite reasons to live ELSEWHERE? For example: one of the highest homocide rates in Canada! Learn how Kingston helped create the "WHITEHOUSE". QUOTE: "The social divisions were as sharp as you could cut them " observed Robertson Davies in 1965 RANKED LAST IN PROVINCE — FOR QUALITY OF LIFE (1998) The hapless folk of City Council, dysfunctional & delusional as to their role & importance -- unable to site a dump within 500 miles... Vainglorious, mendacious Queen's U: Harvard of the North'-NOT! Famous for educating more KILLERS & child murderers than any school... The ludicrous waste of $29Million to restructure local government by removing power from the electorate & producing double-digit tax hikes.LVEC sacred cathedral to second tier entertainment Gods and monster truck shows if derailed when 10% complete would trigger $60M losses and force homeowners to streets Illegal "insider" land-flip deals. Phony crosswalks designed to lure pedestrians onto the streets so cars can hit them. Selfish child-like antics from the out-of-touch union leaders coupled with the spineless lemmings of their "rank and file". Unrealistic 1/4 BILLION DOLLAR Convention Centre projects based on secret agreements, phony promises and failed ideas. Spoiled rotten students so goofy they actually BELIEVE roaming the streets STONED, DRUNK & with purple dye on their face is "kuel".A downtown that's soaked in cancer causing Coal Tar deposits that cost millions of tax dollars to study. The never so trendy 'Arts Scene' where the barely aware fumble for something to sell to enclave burn-outs, Queen's students and puzzled Japanese tourists. The massive whining welfare population constantly in quest of 'training programs' for that elusive "meaningful" employment.Power-tripping politicos with innovative agendas to hijack municipal services and create fiefdoms for their over-paid consultant friends.Our locally elected provincial representative who doesn't read, understand or support the Private Member's Bill he himself sponsors. Kingston’s legions of psycho car thieves from Hell ever ready to steal your car and crash it in one of ten limestone pits (with famous fossils). Rampaging B & E teams with stolen cars racing the crowded narrow roads crashing and killing innocent motorists to escape pursuing police. Psycho-bike riders who'll smash your skull if YOU apologize to them for walking on the sidewalks -- where they want to illegally ride. The urban planers who could confuse & bungle the design of a roadside rest stop or replace valuable land with empty holes. The crumbling streets -- while almost always under construction are seldom passable by anything unequipped with skid plates.Teen vandals that do thousands of dollars in damage to your property while laughing at the police. Snow removal which locks the elderly indoors for months & forces able-bodied folks to the streets on foot -- where they're run down like dogs. "Brilliant" traffic engineering which produces rush hour traffic grid-lock using only handful of cars and 3 poorly designed intersections. The amalgamation fiasco where outside consultants replace consultation and heritage and democracy are destroyed for ego and greed. The largest concentration of criminals in the whole country -- with an extensive support network of biker gangs, 'associates' and wannabes. ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE. Other suggestions... Comments... I am a Kingstonian!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not an ASSHOLE, X-CON or a THIEF — everyone I know is. I don't live in a SLUM — it's a GHETTO! I don't drive a PIECE-OF-SHIT car, it's a '83 Chrysler, And it doesn't pollute the fresh air -- the air was ALREADY POLLUTED, I don't aggressively panhandle — or wash windows, I just demand money, I don't eat fast food all the time — I just hang out at McDonalds every day. I don't usually look before I pull into traffic, have car insurance, a valid driver's licence or obey the speed limit. I drink beer that's brewed locally and it doesn't taste like piss — it tastes like HORSE PISS, Our freeway has grass barriers and gravel shoulders, Our storm drains smell like sewers and we PRETEND to have crosswalks, We have an army base, a fort and ten prisons, so I carry a knife AND a gun. A sail boat with a set of Christmas lights IS an Olympic Regatta, and two guys on a trampoline ARE a festival! We have a University AND a Community College and you'll be LUCKY if you can find a job here after graduating from BOTH of them. That's crushed limestone — not sand or gravel by the road and the dust doesn't hurt you, unless you breathe it. We don't dump our sewage in the lake — we have controlled discharges and waste overflows, It's a golf course, NOT an abandon dump and it doesn't leak toxic waste into the river except after it rains... The Coal tar has been removed, at least we paid to move it — and they think the cancer may be treatable. My main street isn't all ONE WAY and the Mayor isn't a DOOFUS — she just looks and acts like one. We like to gather by the hundreds and pay money to hear loud noise in a big tin shed that we call 'a concert', Our workforce isn't lazy, it's 'work-challenged'. We loudly complain about no shoppers downtown then we ticket and tow away the cars parked there! We have the best potholes in Canada and more drugs in the highschools than the PharmaPlus, My name is... ah — you aren't from around here...? ...and I AM eh KINGSTONIAN!!!!! Up-to-date Slimestone Weather Info... 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