I always say travel doesn't have to be far away because your hometown is someone else's travel.
Hamilton looks like a nice place, and it's so near the border! If that was in another country that pointy end would have been gobbled up by the bigger neighbour by now, but let's not go there today.....
Anyway, homelessness seems to be a very big problem in all big cities nowadays, but that street you showed us does seem to be showered with them, I can imagine the situation getting worse as time goes by. Other than that, there's a nice mix of old and new buildings, I prefer the old ones better, they have character.
Yes that's true about a familiar place being new to someone else.
Well there is a lot of talk about that these days, and it has people's guards up for sure lol 😅
What I showed about the homelessness was just a very small part of it. There are much bigger encampments, though they tend to get taken down by police when they get too big and established. Parts of the city do have a lot of nice charm though, especially the areas with the older buildings.