I like Lower Town in Ottawa just the way it is: about as ethnically mixed up as you can get in a neighbourhood 10 blocks square. We have Orthodox Jews strolling to shul through a housing development full of Somali families, and it doesn't get much more diverse than that.

But Hawk is right about traffic: it's nuts, especially since City Council is trying to do something about our century-old sewer system. Bus transit just doesn't fit into a major construction site on an arterial road.