This millennial is desperate to move to Hamilton, but has been outbid seven times

A 31-year-old communications worker we’ll call Marilyn remembers the dozens of road trips to visit extended family members in Grimsby, Ont., when she was a child. Her parents would take a bridge that overlooked Hamilton and a young Marilyn, with her nose pressed up against the backseat window, wasn’t impressed by the view of endless smokestacks surging from the city’s grungy industrial complexes. “It’s so ugly and I’d be...