The Saskatoon Rift

Today I watched the news. This is not unusual in itself, but I wanted to see the news article about the Saskatoon Rift as I think it should be called. The news article was not to thrilling as I thought it would be as the commercials made it to be, but I could care less! Anyways, it discuss a problem that I have known about for years. For those of of you that don't know, there is a illness in Saskatoon to an extent. I will define it for you. There is a river that divides Saskatoon, just about in the middle. One side is on the east side and one side is on the west. It's connected by a million bridges. Anyways, usually there is a definite not liking of each side by the other side. Myself, growing up in Saskatoon, generally I considered East side people to major snots who spoil their kids and are really arrogant rich bastards. Usually east siders seemed to have the mentality to think that the west side was basically no mans land. There was basically roving street gangs running around along with poverty everywhere for the eye to behold. There is a lot of people that I like the come from the "other" side. But living about 99.99% of my life in Saskatoon's west side, I can honestly say that I have had my share of east siders looking down on me. Needless to say I haven't helped to much by not liking the other side to much and being snotty too. But the mentality is there on both sides. I think there is a difference between both sides. Generally, the east side is a lot newer, neighborhoods, schools and has a lot of development. Also it has higher property values, keeping some of the riffraff out The west side has a lot of of poverty grouped into a few neighborhoods, more crime, older things such as schools, buildings and drugs. People tend to see what they want to see when they look to the other side of the river. I am no different. But I have to commend the city counsel for trying to deal with the issue head on, especially with the river development project.