For what it's worth, I was *born* in Hamilton, although I never lived there. My parents lived in Moffat (near Guelph) when I was born and St. Joe's was the closest hospital so I was born there. And my car broke down on my way up the Mountain once. Nothing catastrophic, just a spark plug that broke for some reason. (I'd never heard of a spark plug just breaking spontaneously before or since.) But I don't know Hamilton very well at all. I've only been there a couple of additional times for day trips.