The Dirty Shwa is an apt description, though perhaps a little rich coming from someone from Hamilton! ;D (just kidding!) I just bought a condo in Oshawa last year and am already suffering from buyer's remorse, and nervous about what the fate of GM is going to do to the city - though I am impressed at the strides they are making to clean the place up.
I was born in Oakville, Ontario and spent most of my time shuffling between there and Cape Breton Island where my mom's family is all from. My father got tricked into immigrating to Canada many years ago from England (it's a bit of a long story, but he thought he was coming for "training" for a banking job in Barbados with the Bank of Nova Scotia - but the time to go down to Barbados just never seemed to come.) I had a brief interlude living in Paradise (Costa Rica) before deciding to get an education at Trent University and joining the CF. From moving around so much I don't really consider anywhere "home", though oddly enough the closest feeling I get to it is my parents' house near Truro, Nova Scotia - a house I never actually "lived" in but it just feels like the house I grew up in, I guess because so much of their stuff is the same.