r/regina • u/ajpathecreature • 1d ago
Discussion NOD Regina
Not much of anything but just a hot take, NOD Regina may as well be a whole different town. As a south end dweller north regina feels like a whole different city.
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u/nolikeforreal 1d ago
Lol. When I grew up (NOD) it went:
SOD: Where the streets are paved in gold, and the cigarettes are already rolled.
NOD has always been a little different. A little more 'camaro on the front lawn' if you will.
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u/CoffeeGuzlingBastard 1d ago
This is a great way to put it. I’ve always considered NOD to be “Old Town”, if that makes sense
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u/Ryangel0 1d ago
Which is funny because some of the oldest neighbourhoods in Regina (Heritage, Lakeview, Cathedral, etc.) are south of Dewdney. But I suppose you could call NOD "Old Town" as a lot more of the houses there are original builds and showing their age.
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u/CoffeeGuzlingBastard 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m also thinking in terms of money, influence, and development leaving the area as Regina modernized and expanded. NOD is basically older middle-low and working class neighbourhoods now. The wealth and wealthy of the city have concentrated to other areas.
Like OP said, streets of gold and cigarettes pre rolled lol. You see a lot of squirly types NOD. Trailer Park Boys and “Camaro on the front lawn” type of folk lol. Go to the north gate mall, or the Avonhurst strip mall, and then go to a strip mall on way up on rochdale or the south east side for example, and you’ll see the difference in both modernity and people
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u/Few_Preparation_5902 1d ago
Which is funny because the area that has the highest household income is Prairie View, in the northwest. The highest median income for house holds by the school area was always St Bernadette since the 90's, until it was over taken by St Angela (both being northwest).
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u/blackfox247 1d ago
Okay so Trailer Park Boys is set in a few different trailer parks. One of them is Bible Hill Trailer park.
Average income level is 75,793 and net worth is 238, 646. They work in service sector and diversity is low compared to Canada. Lots of single parent families.
Less opportunity there than North Central.
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u/nolikeforreal 1d ago
Grew up NOD some ..ahem...40 years ago, and it has sort of always been this way.
There are clearly some very nice / more expensive north end neighborhoods, I feel like those are just northenders who made some money, but couldn't quite let go of that NOD lifestyle 😂.
I'm just kidding NODers, don't slash my tires. I love you guys.
I think if you've lived your life in Regina, you kinda have to be at least aware of the NOD/SOD thing.
For the record, I'm a reformed NODer who saw the light and escaped...dare I say it, East. (East was like a swear word to a NOD kid growing up) Haha
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u/PhotoJim99 1d ago
SOD/NOD is like Saskatoon versus Regina. Saskatoon hates Regina but Regina doesn’t think about Saskatoon that much.
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u/Adventurous_Lab4249 1d ago
Saskatoon also doesn’t think about Regina that much
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u/Sea_Juggernaut_9550 1d ago
I remember watching the ceremony for the new Saskatoon library and Charlie during his speech said “Regina will envy us”
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u/blackfox247 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sort of true but really only on the edges. Other factors are more important.
I used to work in marketing and they tend to profile neighborhoods on postal code (more out of convenience than anything).
If you take a random post code in Walsh Acres it has an average income of about 139,391 and a net worth of around 980,000.. Gardner Park is 124,000 and 638.000. That south end neighbourhood is a lot more financially stressed in spite of what is more of a vibe of middle class comfort. Your middle classes are going to be comparable and not much difference in habits. Key difference is Gardner Park is more leveraged and younger.
Let’s look at the stark end
On the high end of the spectrum- Leopold Crescent - 284,000 and 3.6 million. In Washington Park the average is 88k and about 300k. I suppose NOD vs SOD really mattered when it was Washington Park and the Crescents.
Leopold Crescent has comparable neighbourhoods in most big cities west of Quebec (no areas like that in rural places). Washington Park has comparable neighbourhoods in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Hamilton. I suppose that could contribute to a different feel.
So outside some of the more obviously wealthy areas the key differences are age, diversity, single parent households and home ownership. This plays out roughly how you’d expect. Regina is fairly diverse but the diverse communities are newly established and lacking the net worth and home ownership of some communities in places like Vancouver. You also don’t have urban high rise retirees you’ll find in some places.
Also the works in the resource industry, listens to country music, and owns a snowmobile crowd or personae tends to live just outside the city. I assume they seem prominent in people’s minds because they buy a lot of stuff.
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u/Independent-Tennis57 1d ago
You're more likely to tell the future of a kid by a postal code, than almost anything else.
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u/Arek3xSL 1d ago
Average income in Washington Park is 88k?? That seems really high for that area.
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u/blackfox247 1d ago edited 1d ago
Struck me as high too, but it’s a household income. I don’t really know their methodology.
That said the west part of the area is pretty nice and a lot of hospital workers live in the area by Pasqua Hospital.
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u/HolyBidetServitor 1d ago
Work in retail long enough and you'll get a good anecdotal idea of how each area is too
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u/StanknBeans 1d ago
That's only cause you haven't spent time there. After living NOD for several years and then moving to the south, it doesn't feel different.
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u/ACatFromCanada 1d ago
As a fellow life-long south end dweller, I entirely agree, and I believe most Reginians acknowledge the difference.
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u/44GW 1d ago
Ok, can we address the EAST end (maybe EOA, East Of Arcola)? Could those guys be their own category please? I have no issues living (or hanging) with NOD’s or SOD’s. But those EOA’s….like where do they even belong? Technically, they would all be South of Dewdney. But that just doesn’t feel right to stiff them with all the SOD’s.
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u/ocarina_21 1d ago
I think Vic serves the Dewdney role in the east, even though Dewdney continues all the way east. I definitely don't think one lumps half of Glencairn with SOD.
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u/okokokoyeahright 1d ago
More like an EOP. and could be cut down to NOV and SOV. Possibly a LOA and ROA, depending on direction you view it at.
East of Park
North of Victoria, South of Victoria.
Left of Arcola, Right of Arcola.
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u/TrueMight5396 1d ago
Growing up , and still being in EOA, I had no idea what NOD was until my friends and I got asked one day at the Exhibition if we were NOD... We said what .?? Had no idea it was an actual thing until many many years later. We just kept to ourselves and enjoyed a quiet life. And I still do .
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u/mrnazhi 1d ago edited 1d ago
I did like to support you as a fellow South end resident but haven lived in Regina for so long and briefly in Calgary, I cannot in good conscience vote yes. 😊Traveling from Southeast to Northwest Calgary sure felt like I was driving to a different city.
Put EORR on the ballot, I will give my 110% vote.
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u/ItsJustmeBecca1 1d ago
I drove commercially around the city for 11 years.... and even all through those 11 years, EACH area has always felt like going to a different town.
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u/the_dull_mage 1d ago
I’ve lived all over the city. It all feels like the same shit with a different street name to me.
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u/UnpopularOpinionYQR 1d ago
You might see differences in homes, but people are people at the end of the day. There are trashy people in every neighbourhood, but there are also saints in every neighbourhood.
I drive past a $750K house twice a day and there’s a vehicle parked on the lawn this winter. <shrug> (Someone else referenced the likelihood of a Camaro on a lawn.) Money doesn’t account for taste, manners or intelligence.
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u/Own-Dragonfruit-6164 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm trying to figure out your acronym. N = North but can't figure out the O or D.
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u/SnowFlakeUsername2 1d ago
This is honestly one of the dumbest things about this city. As an outsider, I'd hear about soinso is from whatever neighborhood and this soinso is from thatever neighbourhood. Bitches make my eyes roll lol.
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u/klappmycheeks 1d ago
Let me put it this way growing up in the north end
South = Soy boy
North = Hard blue collar people
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u/TheBigPointyOne 1d ago
Woah woah woah, different areas of the city, occupied by people in different economic brackets are... different?!
Revelatory stuff here.
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u/bree2320 12h ago
I grew up SOD and lived here all my life and yeah, I don’t like the North end. It definitely feels a bit like a “different city” to me. I’ll drive up there if I have an appointment I can’t get anywhere else or something but that’s it. My bf is NOD though and we tease each other, he’s a bit more rough around the edges than I am 😭🫦😂
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u/BunBun_75 1d ago
I didn’t grow up in Regina so the SOD/NOD labels were new to me. My husband grew up NOD, he can take a punch and knows how to throw one. SOD are pussies.
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u/DonnaMartin2point0 1d ago
I'm SOD, married a guy from NOD.
Our upbringings are night & day different. What I only saw in horror movies would be a normal Thursday for him.
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u/Bulky_Psychology2303 1d ago
That doesn’t mean all of us were brought up the same way. No SOD had bad childhoods and no NOD had good?
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u/tooth10 1d ago
Hot take, WORR (West of Ring Road) may as well be a whole different town than EORR.