The residents mainly commute to jobs in Dartmouth, Burnside Industrial Park or in Downtown Halifax.

Porters Lake is 19 km long, but never more than a kilometre wide and is in the shape of a crescent.

Hwy 207 runs south of the lake until just past Three Fathom Harbour, where there is limited access to the Lake by road on the east side as the highway and residential communities run along the Atlantic Ocean coast.

On June 13, 2008, a forest fire broke out destroying two houses, damaging more than 20 others and burning almost 4,800 acres.

The trio of streets became an Internet meme during the late 2010s due to their unusual names,[5] being posted on multiple social media sites, including Reddit,[6] Tumblr,[7] and Twitter.