Peterborough is an odd
city, it has some beautiful areas and slums. Both
Trent University and
Sir Sandford Fleming College are located within its borders, so it's largely populated with
students, and therefore caters mainly to them as far as
services and whatnot go. Sandford is on one side of the city, and Trent is on the other. There are also a couple of highschools.. needless to say,
you can't turn around without running into someone who's going to
school.
They have what I'm quite sure is one of the largest
homeless populations in
Ontario, probably because there aren't a lot of
employment opportunities for people that aren't students. They do a good job of hiding it though, I've been there several times and hardly noticed. They've also got odd sport team names, like the "
Peterborough Pete's".
Searching for
apartments online becomes very interesting if you forget to specify which country you are referring to, there are several cities named Peterborough and they all get very jumbled if you aren't specific.