Never assaulted in close to 40 years in HamiltonToronto is worse than Hamilton??
Not in my experience.
The Hammer is a far tougher town. When I was a kid I remember getting into a lot of fights. One time 2 hoods were following me and I knew they were going to jump me and I grabbed a lid off of a garbage can and bashed the one kid right over the head before he could jump me. This kind of shit was nonstop.
To me, the north end of Hamilton rivals anything in Toronto and then some.