General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

[MidTowner]

Hahah this is very true - I have so many examples of Waterloo people getting offended if you label them as being from Kitchener or falsely stating they live in Waterloo when in fact they live in Kitchener etc.

I never understood that, in terms of high-end streets or neighbourhoods Kitchener blows Waterloo out of the water - Hidden Valley, Deer Ridge, most of Westmount (the really nice streets anyways)

Is it because of the 2 Universities? I don't get it

I find those attitudes to be more prevalent among folks who aren't born and raised in K-W.

This has been my experience to a great extent, too. I live within a couple of blocks of the municipal boundary, it's meaningless to most of my neighbours. It's only recent arrivals who think it matters that their address is Waterloo, or who bang on about being able to have fire pits or whatever. Longtime residents have no sense of it in their day-to-day.

I do think it's lunacy to keep these two cities politically divided when they are so completely integrated in every other day.