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Originally Posted by begratto
You betcha! 
I would never have imagined that Verdun would make the top-20 list of the world's cool neighbourhoods when I bought my house in Verdun, just 15 years ago, moving from the Plateau-Mont-Royal.
At the time Verdun still had a lingering bad rep from the time from the 70's and 80's, when it was mostly known for bikers wars, drug dealing and frequent fires.
What a complete turnaround in a relatively short time. |
Verdun is the only part of urban Montreal I have left to visit. It's funny - when I explored Montreal a lot more 10-15 years ago, my impression was that gentrification/hipsterdom would spread east and north from the Plateau outwards.
The general trajectory seemed to go Plateau (the OG neighbourhood) > Mile End > Little Italy > Rosemont > Villeray
So my next expectation would have been that it would have jumped the Met north and moved over to Hoch-Mais before attempting a Napoleonic expedition to conquer the vast hinterlands east of Pie IX.
It looks like there was some of that, but moreso that the "scene" moved towards Saint-Henri and Verdun.