You’ll still see Tim Hortons locations sitting on a street corner and Labatt Blue is still one of the most popular bars in this part of New York. One thing you see less of driving across Western New York, in Niagara Falls and Buffalo, is Ontario licence plates.
Canadians aren’t coming the way they used to and the locals are noticing.
“It’s not like it used to be,” said Nicole as she slung coffee, bacon and eggs at Mom’s Diner on Military Rd. in Niagara Falls.
“We used to get a tonne, we don’t anymore.”
Down the street at Walmart, the back-to-school t-shirts start at $3.98, jeans at $12.98 and school supplies are cheap and plentul but parents aren’t showing up like they used to. Even across the parking lot where Sam’s Club is selling gas for C1.04 per litre, there was one Ontario plate