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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
Interesting. Never heard that before but it makes sense.
It works in Kingston too, the wind direction is a bit funny here because of the lake, and the old north end is downwind from the rest of the city.
It doesn't really work in Ottawa though. Traditionally Sandy Hill, just east of downtown, was a wealthy public servant neighbourhood, while Lebreton Flats, just west of downtown, was a very working class area.
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Yeah, obviously, that "rule" doesn't work 100.000% of the time, as there are a bunch of other factors in play (in TO's case, as was pointed out, presence of swampland in a given direction, etc.) but generally, in NE North America, it does.
(See, my total guess about Cleveland proved correct.
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Historically, dense city cores have always been a filthy, stinky place, so you ideally didn't want to be downwind/downriver from them. Without even looking it up, it's guaranteed that an identical residential riverfront property on the Thames/Seine was significantly more desirable if located just
before medieval London/Paris than just
after it. The port, docks are also (nearly always) going to be on the downriver side.