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  1. TomOfBoston
    I like the bay windows on the side, very retro.
  2. TomOfBoston
    If there is an earthquake there and one building falls, it will take out the whole row like dominos!
  3. TomOfBoston
    Good grief! In Massachusetts, we do corruption with a flair: one party stays in power until the other party gets out of jail! LOL
  4. TomOfBoston
    Eventually McTavish St. will be repaved with a narrow roadway (for deliveries and emergency vehicles only) and with permanent planters and landscaping.
  5. TomOfBoston
    If they just kept adding floors during construction, I wonder how long it would be before someone complained!
  6. TomOfBoston
    Maybe McGill can be persuaded to buy more hotels along Sherbrooke in order to increase the demand for new hotel construction elsewhere!
  7. TomOfBoston
    While I am glad that John Abbott is expanding, I'm disappointed that they cannot seem to do anything with Brittain Hall. It has been mostly derelict for 20 years and is an eyesore on the campus.
  8. TomOfBoston
    How come the métro has been running for 44 years and people are only now complaining about the lack of air conditioning?
  9. TomOfBoston
    Those Boston cemeteries were there when the streets of Boston were cowpaths. It was considered sacriligious to dig up the graves and relocate them. These were Puritan Bostonians.
  10. TomOfBoston
    Careful, Heritage Montreal will declare it a significant structure and fight for its preservation!!!
  11. TomOfBoston
    TD Bank is one of the biggest banks in Boston. A poll of customers showed that 87% did not know what "TD" stood for. When told that the T stood for Toronto, 40% asked if that was in Italy. OK, so I made the last part up.
  12. TomOfBoston
    El Paso, TX, on the Mexican border: Population 751,000, 1 murder so far this year. http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_15663742?source=most_viewed
  13. TomOfBoston
    Il y a des nouveaux montréalais qui la prononcent "Pins (pinz) Avenue".
  14. TomOfBoston
    Extend the Green Line north from Angrignon through NDG and hook it up with the Blue Line at Snowdon, thus making the Blue Line part of the Green Line. Plausible?
  15. TomOfBoston
    Close up it looks great. But until 900 deMaisonneuve Ouest is built, it will be awkward on that block.
  16. TomOfBoston
    @uqam+: Many of the comments from les Torontois are quite positive about Montréal. As for the negative comments, well, they are Torontois, allowances must be made for their insecurities! LOL
  17. TomOfBoston
    Often, you have to view a place from afar to appreciate it. Locals tend to get too absorbed in the nitty gritty of life in their hometown.
  18. TomOfBoston
    These activists studied this! They had their members stationed at key greenspaces to measure the amount of shadow that buildings cast on 12/21/2009. They then projected the shadows that various proposed buildings would cast! On the plus side, there are still a few mentally healthy people in Boston who are opposing this by-law.
  19. TomOfBoston
    NIMBY's are not unique to Montreal. In the last decade, they have halted half the new development in downtown Boston. There is now a proposed by-law in Boston that no new building can cast a shadow on any existing green space!!!! "I guess people don't incorporate front gardens into their real estate development plans anymore... " This poster deserves the "Dingbat of the Year" award
  20. TomOfBoston
    It was said "Le Québec n'est pas une province comme les autres". To extrapolate "Les Etats-Unis ne sont pas un pays comme les autres".
  21. TomOfBoston
    When Canada started to convert to the metric system in the mid 1970's, the U.S. announced that it was creating an Office of Metric Conversion. America would observe the Canadian conversion, learn from any mistakes, and begin the conversion in the early 1980's. Obviously, that never happened. I wonder if the Office of Metric Conversion still exists? Probably does! One exception though: Americans buy soft drinks in 2 litre bottles!!! That's about it.
  22. TomOfBoston
    The anti-Montreal sentiment in the rest of Canada, especially Toronto, is not just anti-French, although that is a big part of it. It is also anti-English Montreal. They cannot comprehend why there are still 700,000 to 900,000 anglophones (depends on the definition of anglophone) still living in Quebec. They consider English Quebecers to be masochists or whatever. In forums like collegeconfidential.com and others, English Canadians constantly refer to McGill as "overrated" and try to make the university out to be some sort of decrepit relic from the past, barely able to hold its own against their junior colleges. In the posts I quoted earlier "Ivyleaguer" chimed in because he couldn't stand reading someone who was being positive about the university and Montreal. He was not respondiong to a question, he was just trying to "set the record straight" from a Torontonian's perspective.
  23. TomOfBoston
    Gilbert, I know what you mean! I have been posting in the collegeconfidential.com blog, answering questions from potential students, mostly American, about life at McGill and in Montreal. This is an example of what happens when a Torontois (sounds like tortoise to me LOL) puts in his two cents worth: "07-04-2010, 07:30 PM #366 ivyleaguer Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Dubai, UAE Posts: 388 Tomofboston said: Quote: I think Americans see Toronto as Chicago with a dramatically lower crime rate. Toronto is a fantastic city, but not really that different from big American cities. . that's probably true but many Canadians don't see anything unique about Montreal. I for one will never understand what Americans see in Montreal. I never liked the city, found it to be small and uninteresting and times downright boring and don't know many Torontonians who run off there for the weekends, though I am sure some do. Just as some Montrealers come into Toronto on the weekends. however, that being said why is it that some Americans seek Canada for multiculturalism? When I was looking at colleges I was fascinated by the city of Miami because of the Latin culture. if us Canadians don't appreciate the French culture as much as we should the same should be said about Americans and the Latin community. Even though I spent my college years in Canada after all, my grad years in New York, all those winter breaks and Spring breaks were spent taking in the Latin culture in South Florida. That's where I absorbed diversity and that's what I call multiculturalism NOT Montreal. I am in the Mid east and there is a guy I met at Canadian embassy mixer who hasn't been back to Montreal in 5 years and he is from there. He says he has no use for the city. Again, not saying he is emblematic of any trend. just sharing. Oh btw, my Canadian friends who attended McGill; the main reason they choose McGill: to be far away from their parents and still be in a city. I am not saying it's not a fine school. Just thought I would share their reasoning. I met many Quebecers at U of T and York who attended those two for the same reasons. Also, I didn't find any more name recognition outside of academic circles in the U.S. for McGill versus other Canuck schools like Toronto. In fact most ( not all ) Americans I met knew mainly only of Oxbridge outside of American universities and I have met many Canadians who didn't know what McGill was too ( and yes I concede they were from English Canada.) 07-04-2010, 10:06 PM #367 tomofboston Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 556 Ivyleaguer said: "that's probably true but many Canadians don't see anything unique about Montreal. I for one will never understand what Americans see in Montreal. I never liked the city, found it to be small and uninteresting and times downright boring" Typical Toronto/English Canadian attitude." He found Montreal to be boring?????? Says more about that guy than it does about Montreal!
  24. TomOfBoston
    Actually, there is still some jealousy in the rest of Canada towards Montreal: It galls English Canadians that the number 1 ranked English university in Canada, McGill, is in French speaking Montreal. Despite decades of dealing with sometimes hostile provincial governments, McGill has retained its ranking as the best university in Canada. It also drives Torontonians crazy that American tourists flock to Montreal, while ignoring Toronto: "What do Americans see in Montreal?" is the common whine. It bugs them to no end that Americans see Toronto as a Chicago with a low crime rate, at best. Also, McGill, with 27,000 full time students welcomes 2800 American students. While the University of Toronto with 66,000 full time students, attracts only 800 Americans.
  25. TomOfBoston
    Even back in the days of anglo dominance in Montreal, the rest of Canada hated the city, only then it was jealousy. What is stated in the article is mostly true unfortunately albeit totally one sided (negative). Infrastructrure rot exists in every older city in North America. As for the comments, comment sections in online newspapers are riddled with idiots who use them to spew their hate and ignorance. I either ignore them or laugh at them.
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