im from sydney, my aunts husbands aunt owns that fish joint, lord fin fish and chip. i can tell ya, you got the authentic sydney experience going there. i recommend that place to everyone i know. the quality is outstanding and the price is great. glad you got to see our place man!
What a great video! I'm on a Princess cruise in September & our Bar Harbor port just was replaced by Sydney. Looks like a fun & cute little town to explore. Did you have to buy tickets to walk thru the old homes?
Thanks so much. Yes some you paid for but very reasonable and some were donation only. Make sure you get those fish and chips.. amazing. Have a great time and want to hear about it when you get back. 👍👍🛳🛳
Oh my your picking my brain lol. I can't remember what kind of fish it was I just remember it was some of the best I had. I think the flight was like 12 dollars but a great little place. Hope you get to try both. 👍👍
I'm 63 years old, born and raised in Sydney since 1959. I grew up in the "North End" which is where the Cruise ship is docked, that's all the North End down there. It was nice to see how Sydney, and the Province and yes, the Federal Government has placed the infrastructure to give the place "face appeal" when all those cruise ships come in, because quite frankly, it's hard to beg and rip off tourists if the ambiance is not there. When I was a young person growing up in Sydney, we had a Steel Mill that employed, once upon a time, over 5000 men, but then went down to 800 by the time I was old enough to work there. We had an enormous fishing industry, until foreigners came in and raped the coastline of every cod fish until the whole thing just collapsed. We had coal mines that employed thousands of people, but the Government didn't want to put any more money in mining, so they sold it, they also sold the Steel Plant to private companies who came in and raped every last dollar out of the land, without ever putting a dollar back in, turning Sydney into the most toxic waste site in North America. So now in my old age, I get to watch video's on UA-cam where my Grandchildren have 2 choices, they can take some sort of formal education training after leaving high school and then leave forever. . . Or they can stay in the place that they were born and raised and sell trinkets and T-shirts to rich people from the States on Cruise Ships. Even I had to leave once I acquired a trade, or be stuck installing Siding on houses all summer and then laid off all winter on "Pogey", never having a year round job, so no chance of any Bank ever giving me enough money to purchase a house, or even a mobile home. Oh one thing I should mention, all those house's that you were walking past with the nice flowers, and how nice they are taken care of ... GERMANS's own those houses. It all started in the late 80's, GERMANS came to Nova Scotia and bought every piece of land for sale, so now if I want to reitre and buy a nice piece of land somewhere's on the Cablot Trail in the Northern part of MY HOME, I will have to pay about $700,000 JUST for 2 or 3 acres ... because it's all been sold. I installed Sidney for 12 years in Sydney, Cape Breton, so I know because as soon as the GERMANS bought the homes they instantly renovated them, new roofs, new siding, water retention ponds for agriculture, indoor swimming pools, walking trails through the property .. GERMANS love to paint the tree trunks white from the ground to about 9 feet up and clear all the brush so that you can see for 1/2 a mile into the property. That is how you know you are looking at a GERMANS house .. the painted trees.
Oh that is so so sad! I am so sorry that all the industries you knew as a child have gone. And there is not much now for the local children to do once they leave school. I live in England and during WW2 my father was based in East Anglia (in the RAF) along with Canadian Pilots and near the American air bases and they were fighting the.............GERMANS! To think that now they own those houses and all that land is heart breaking - how was this allowed to happen? (I can understand why they would want to leave Germany - awful place). But to go to this beautiful place which is your home and it seems they have 'colonised' it. Unbelievable. Isn't life just so unfair? I do hope, at least, that some true Sydney locals own the tourist shops and can make enough money - or at least enough to live on? I feel your frustration and sadness and am so glad you wrote this piece putting the true reality of life here on the map.
im from sydney too boss. things are looking up, bro. don't fret for your grandchildren too much. with the recent influx of immigrants, students and tourists - you can now stay in sydney and earn a decent living in trades rather than moving away. i reckon within the next 20, 30, or 50+ years, sydney will be just as halifax is.
@@robertamoody1514 And, to add insult to injury Robert, because of Sydney Steel Plant pumping cancer causing toxins into the air for all those years ... Everybody in my family that are dead, all died of CANCER...the ones that were born in Sydney are ALL dead, but not the ones that are in the countryside of Cape Breton, they are still alive ... and now ... a few weeks ago, the Doctors told me that I have throat cancer, and cannot be operated on ...so now, even I am added to the list of people that dam Steel Plant has killed.
@@propeller___ I would not move back there to save my soul. My Son has found a high end job here in Halifax, as a computer cyber security specialist. . . but how you equate saying that because of immigrants students and tourists,...trades are coming back ... those three things don't bring shipyards, industry, etc at all. The students rent rooms, eat food and buy socks ...that's about it. The immigrants take every single job, because they have a culture of helping their parents by contributing to their future ... Parents pay for schooling abroad, they get jobs to pay for their rent .... and are you aware that Sydney Food Banks have been OVERRUN with students taking all the food so that they can save money while going to College, Tradeschool in Sydney ... there is NO rosy picture that you can paint for me young man ... I have wisdom on my side.
Really helpful for figuring out what is walkable from the ship
Thank you. Hope you get to go soon.
It was such a beautiful video. I really loved the views but the peace you transmit with your tone of voice. I am planing to go there next moth.
Thank you so much. Have a fantastic time and want to hear about it when you get back. 👍👍❤️❤️😎😎
im from sydney, my aunts husbands aunt owns that fish joint, lord fin fish and chip. i can tell ya, you got the authentic sydney experience going there. i recommend that place to everyone i know. the quality is outstanding and the price is great. glad you got to see our place man!
i dated a girl who lived in that house you feature at 5:46 lol
Yes we loved it there. And that fish was incredible. 👍👍
Lol... wonder if she still lives there. 🤔
Very enthusiastic presentation! Thank you. Watched ahead of a 3 day visit during which we will be staying in the Sydney area.
Have a great time.
Please come back and do our world famous Cabot Trail!
Oh I will be back for sure one day. Thanks👍👍
very vivid and inviting
Thanks so much. Hope you get there soon.
Thanks so much for the video, we are going Oct 2023, so excited now after seeing your video.😀😀
You will love it. I need to go back soon. Want to hear about it when return. Thanks for commenting and subscribing 👍👍😊😊
Thank you for this! Going in June and this helped me check if I can walk around.
Plenty to do. Thanks for commenting and subscribing. 👍👍😁😁🛳🛳
Looks like a nice stroll. Hubby and I will be doing the Boston to Montreal this summer, and I was wondering what to do in Sydney. Thanks for sharing.
Lots of things to see and do. Have a great trip. 👍👍
What a great video! I'm on a Princess cruise in September & our Bar Harbor port just was replaced by Sydney. Looks like a fun & cute little town to explore. Did you have to buy tickets to walk thru the old homes?
Thanks so much. Yes some you paid for but very reasonable and some were donation only. Make sure you get those fish and chips.. amazing. Have a great time and want to hear about it when you get back. 👍👍🛳🛳
Going the beginning of October. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wonderful , do you know what kind of fish that was?? And how much was that flight at the cider place?? Thanks!!
Oh my your picking my brain lol. I can't remember what kind of fish it was I just remember it was some of the best I had. I think the flight was like 12 dollars but a great little place. Hope you get to try both. 👍👍
That probably was haddock generally it’s haddock or cod
What time of the year did you guys do this Cruise?
It was in September or October. We were the last cruise there for the season.
Do you have a Facebook page?
Sorry we don't.
I'm 63 years old, born and raised in Sydney since 1959. I grew up in the "North End" which is where the Cruise ship is docked, that's all the North End down there. It was nice to see how Sydney, and the Province and yes, the Federal Government has placed the infrastructure to give the place "face appeal" when all those cruise ships come in, because quite frankly, it's hard to beg and rip off tourists if the ambiance is not there.
When I was a young person growing up in Sydney, we had a Steel Mill that employed, once upon a time, over 5000 men, but then went down to 800 by the time I was old enough to work there. We had an enormous fishing industry, until foreigners came in and raped the coastline of every cod fish until the whole thing just collapsed. We had coal mines that employed thousands of people, but the Government didn't want to put any more money in mining, so they sold it, they also sold the Steel Plant to private companies who came in and raped every last dollar out of the land, without ever putting a dollar back in, turning Sydney into the most toxic waste site in North America.
So now in my old age, I get to watch video's on UA-cam where my Grandchildren have 2 choices, they can take some sort of formal education training after leaving high school and then leave forever. . . Or they can stay in the place that they were born and raised and sell trinkets and T-shirts to rich people from the States on Cruise Ships.
Even I had to leave once I acquired a trade, or be stuck installing Siding on houses all summer and then laid off all winter on "Pogey", never having a year round job, so no chance of any Bank ever giving me enough money to purchase a house, or even a mobile home.
Oh one thing I should mention, all those house's that you were walking past with the nice flowers, and how nice they are taken care of ... GERMANS's own those houses. It all started in the late 80's, GERMANS came to Nova Scotia and bought every piece of land for sale, so now if I want to reitre and buy a nice piece of land somewhere's on the Cablot Trail in the Northern part of MY HOME, I will have to pay about $700,000 JUST for 2 or 3 acres ... because it's all been sold. I installed Sidney for 12 years in Sydney, Cape Breton, so I know because as soon as the GERMANS bought the homes they instantly renovated them, new roofs, new siding, water retention ponds for agriculture, indoor swimming pools, walking trails through the property .. GERMANS love to paint the tree trunks white from the ground to about 9 feet up and clear all the brush so that you can see for 1/2 a mile into the property. That is how you know you are looking at a GERMANS house .. the painted trees.
Oh that is so so sad! I am so sorry that all the industries you knew as a child have gone. And there is not much now for the local children to do once they leave school. I live in England and during WW2 my father was based in East Anglia (in the RAF) along with Canadian Pilots and near the American air bases and they were fighting the.............GERMANS! To think that now they own those houses and all that land is heart breaking - how was this allowed to happen? (I can understand why they would want to leave Germany - awful place). But to go to this beautiful place which is your home and it seems they have 'colonised' it. Unbelievable. Isn't life just so unfair? I do hope, at least, that some true Sydney locals own the tourist shops and can make enough money - or at least enough to live on? I feel your frustration and sadness and am so glad you wrote this piece putting the true reality of life here on the map.
Yes thanks for sharing.
im from sydney too boss. things are looking up, bro. don't fret for your grandchildren too much. with the recent influx of immigrants, students and tourists - you can now stay in sydney and earn a decent living in trades rather than moving away. i reckon within the next 20, 30, or 50+ years, sydney will be just as halifax is.
@@robertamoody1514 And, to add insult to injury Robert, because of Sydney Steel Plant pumping cancer causing toxins into the air for all those years ... Everybody in my family that are dead, all died of CANCER...the ones that were born in Sydney are ALL dead, but not the ones that are in the countryside of Cape Breton, they are still alive ... and now ... a few weeks ago, the Doctors told me that I have throat cancer, and cannot be operated on ...so now, even I am added to the list of people that dam Steel Plant has killed.
@@propeller___ I would not move back there to save my soul. My Son has found a high end job here in Halifax, as a computer cyber security specialist. . . but how you equate saying that because of immigrants students and tourists,...trades are coming back ... those three things don't bring shipyards, industry, etc at all. The students rent rooms, eat food and buy socks ...that's about it. The immigrants take every single job, because they have a culture of helping their parents by contributing to their future ... Parents pay for schooling abroad, they get jobs to pay for their rent .... and are you aware that Sydney Food Banks have been OVERRUN with students taking all the food so that they can save money while going to College, Tradeschool in Sydney ... there is NO rosy picture that you can paint for me young man ... I have wisdom on my side.