I realised how lucky we are to be living at Church-Isabella. Here we are, paying the equivalent of the rents for similar places in Etobicoke or at Lawrence and Chelm, and just look at our neighbourhood:
With the imminent opening of Longo's at Bloor and Park, we have seven supermarkets within a quarter-hour walk, with two high end food stores just a little further out, with two greengrocers and four Rabbas in the same area, and three convenience stores within a couple of blocks. Of course the one thing you're looking for none of the stores has in stock right now, but that's fate. Who'd have thought Vegemite was so hard to find?
And we are indeed paying substantially less than market: apartments north of Bloor and West of Lansdowne are $835 for bachelors, $950 for one beds and $1275 for two beds. And they don't have the nice people in the building that we do.
In no particular order:
There were fifty Learning Annex boxes lined up along Breadalbane Street, all alone, lined up quietly presumably waiting to be picked up and taken home. Whatever happened to the L.A.? I remember it as being a high-end Continuing Ed, then it went weird, and it seems to have been dead since last year. As the schedule boxes indicate, I guess.
The Scientologists are rumoured to be moving to a compound north of the city. No loss, although we shall miss the masked protesters on Saturdays.
Miraculous, the way the city recovered from the garbage strike. The street cleaners revealed that they can actually pick up all the litter when it's an emergency. The last of the backlog of household garbage has been picked up and the fetid corners are no more. The posturing by the Mayor and the CUPE spokesman was embarrassing -- how do they frame these sentences that manage not to lie while giving a totally false impression? Is there a postgrad school of lying and cheating? What level of creative law-skirting is necessary? Is a conviction for fraud an advantage, or must you successfully defend yourself and then counter-sue?
Enough for tonight
