http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
Another thing to note - I would take all the "
a lot of young people move into CP thinking it's going to be fun, but inevitably get the hell out" and similar statements with a hefty chunk of salt. There's unfortunately a lot of anti-cityplace rhetoric on these boards that is completely baseless. I would go so far as to call most of it completely assumed and fabricated. I doubt most of the people commenting on cityplace know a single person living there, let alone having ever been inside one of the buildings.
As someone who has lived here for 4 years, and knows literally dozens of people/couples living here, I can safely say I don't know a single person looking to move out (let alone, "get the hell out"). In fact I would go so far as to say literally every single person I know living here loves it. If you look up some of the previous threads on cityplace, you'll find the same phenomenon - people with no real knowledge of cityplace commenting negatively, and all the people who
actually live there chiming in and saying how great it is. I'll leave it up to you on which opinion you think is more valid.
The only explanation I can think of for this behaviour is to compare it to when folks sitting outside a senior citizens home see young people and start grumbling and arbitrarily assume they are up to trouble. Yes, there are more 'younger' people here than in most downtown neighbourhoods. No, that is not necessarily a bad thing.
Just to give you an example of how ridiculous and biased some of the comments are: there was a poster in the Tridel Element thread who commented on how the building is great and in such a great location, and then that exact same poster later complained in a cityplace thread that cityplace is NOT a desirable area. The amusing thing is, the Element is
directly across the street from my building (even the most distant cityplace building is at most a 5 minute walk from there). Go figure...