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Originally Posted by esquire
^ Honestly, if you wanted to give someone the worst possible impression of Winnipeg, I don't think you could do much better (worse?) than to bring them downtown on a long weekend at a time when we're experiencing a late spring and as such the cityscape was still coated in dust and grit and devoid of plant life.
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It looks even worse in late March, which I find to be the ugliest time of the year.
Having said that, apart from Fremont Street (and even that can be quite seedy) downtown Las Vegas is pretty ugly. If you want to talk about dead zones, check out the long stretch between downtown Vegas and Circus Circus on the north Strip, and it's scary to walk there even in the early evening.
If downtown was dead on Victoria Day, why didn't they walk a little ways over to Osborne Village or Corydon Ave.? The weather that weekend was beautiful. Why not go to Assiniboine or Kildonan Park? Why be worried that Costco was closed? Couldn't they ask someone, anyone, for suggestions? That's one of the nice things about here, 99% of the people you encounter are locals, in some cities no one lives there, or have only just moved there so they know nothing. I think that opinion piece is misinformed.