Hamilton is a steel town. Blue collar workers, steel mills, dense century construction, etc. Or, rather, was a steel town. Our steel industry hung on about a decade or so longer than Pittsburgh, so we're going through the same crap Pittsburgh did when it had to go through that confused process of trying to find its place now that all the jobs are drying up... that's where the similarities end though, Pittsburgh had to stand on its own while we're close enough to Toronto that our answer to the problem might be turning into a bedroom community of a bedroom community instead of a Tom-Murphy-esque revitalization.